Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-07
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" O-Nr EN- AAA---AAAA AN -+A operation of the railroads. resulting in traffic congestion with its great at tendant evils was charged by union Ia. Dor leaders at hearing today before the railroad wage commission to a de sire on the part of the homogeneous of the systems to discredit the eight hour law and to make a failure of gov ernment control.
 w G. Lee, head of the trainmen. A B. GarretsOn. head of the conductors, and other witnesses told the commit tee why they thought the transpOrta- ion system of the country including such roads of splendid record as the Pennsylvania. suddenly collapsed The brotherhood leaders used such vigOr- Ous expressions as rotten railroading to convey their opinion of the way the business has been carried on since the government took charge and they of fered to produce scores of instances of delayed crews. changes in person nel and misuse of rolling stock to prove their statements
 Hearing RuffIed
 The ordinarily quiet course of such hearing was ruffled from the outset Lee and GarretsOn. appearing to pre- sent the claims of their brOthsrhoOds for wage increases, found several rail road representatives present and en- tered an immediate protest, declaring they did not propose to deal with tsso sets of employees The commission eX- plained that the railroad men weIP there by special invitation 10 supple ment. not to antagOnize. the infcrma- ton presented by the employees
 This question hardly had been snOOthed over before discussion of the working of the eight hour law and the effect of government supervision Of the roads pTecipitated charges by Lee that the management were doing their utmost to discredit them He said over time had been doubled and tripled 10 make the effect of the AdamsOn law more expensive and to represent that the workers were obtaining large wage increases Furthermore, he declared that every effort was being used to handicap transportation to create dis satisfaction with the government : part in the business
 -I would go back to about four aGAAAS III -NCM IT T hGAAAlA N0 -AAA1 out the real cause for this hs said.
 ~Train DeIayers"
 Asked how he thought the alleged results had been accomplished. he said he thought the word had been passed down the line" that Overums was to be increased greatly. He did not think there had been a conspiracy from the presidents down tO tke dis pstchers" to delay trains under gov eTn ment supervision. but insisted susii- cisnt persons were interested t0 hat end to obtain what they desiTe.l- lie referred to train dispatchers as train delayers."
 Secretary Lane. chairman of the cCm- mission. asked numerous questions concerning the union leaders allega- tiOns and wanted to know if he meant that the railroads actually had run up their operating costs in order sO fliy- credit the Adamson law Mr. Lee -e- piled that was the case, adding that 1t was perfectly natural"
 T do not think it was natuT5s; l sis not so cynical about human nature, the secretary replied
 MT GarretsOn supplemented his col leagues statements. The operating employees are thoroughly aware of the manner Of clearing congestion which was in effect before the government took over the roads" he s1Ii- They also are aware of the kind of JranspOr- 6ation now being given, but I want to say there is one class of employees not engaged in giving a demonstration of what a failure government operation is"
 Another Protest
 D. ". Helt, grand chief of the Broth erhOOd of Railway Signalmen. assert ed that the work of the wage cOmmis- sion was being used as a cloak by some of the roads to discontinue negO- tiations with employees which were be- gun before the commission was ap- pointed He said the signal men on the New York. New Haven and Hart ford were on the verge of quitting
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