Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-20

discriminatory rate structure. The
administrative duties of the commits.
sion should be referred to the pro.
posed transportation board, which
should supervise the issue of railroad
securities, study and recommend the
public need for facilities and extern
stons, estimate and certify to the In
terstate commerce commission the
revenues required under the rate
making rule fixed by congress. ]
Two Plans to Protect Commerce.
z. That no program Of railroad
regulation is complete that does not
assert and protect the paramount
public interest in the uninterrupted
operation of the instrumentalities OF
commerce between the states. To
this end appropriate legislation .shoulS
be enacted to provide:
Either :
1: That whenever, in the opinion
Of the president of the United States,
a dispute over hours, wages or work.
ing conditions threatens the inter-
ruptlon Of the service of a carrier es-
sential to the performance of the civ
IL or military functions of the gov
eminent, or the free movement OF
commerce between the states or with
foreign nations, he should appoint
a commission eminently qualified to
ascertain the causes and circum-
stances Of the dispute and make an
and during the conduct tfof such, in.
quiry and until the publication Of
such finding n award it shall be
unlawful for the employers or en-
ployes OF the carrier involved to COM
Dine or conspirc,. among themselvea
or with each other, to. cause a strike
or lockout that will deprive the. public
nf Tho e.orv,f0o ~ e,,4L H. A. IA.
of communication, or
2. 1t should be provided, as auth
orized by the. decision of the supreme
court OF the United States in sustain
ing the Adamson eight hour law, that
whenever a labor dispute threatens
the operation of an instrumentality
of interstate communication. the
president shall appoint a commission
which shall write a contract for the
shall voluntarily agree between them
selves, thus retaining to both parties
their freedom of contract. subject
only to the paramount interest OF the
public in the continued operation of
the railway service. Such proposals
merely bring emphatically to the at
~tention of the public and possible dis
putants the limits Which the para
mount right of social self-defense has
( Of c~o,nhinatinns
with the execution ~ the last each
of these n%ronoaitinns in va rions- forn :
has been submitted and argued be-
fore your honorable committee. We
lto submit renetitive arrnment fny
them. hut we venture as = rreat hody
of SINNERS "a assert that undar nods
ern conditions adequate and eficient
fra n=snnr1atinn - ITSELF a lint ,,nnn
evenI Torn, nf sncceasrn1 nrnd,,c ah
The d~eyelonmant ~ adenuate sn,,roa.
| Of material sunnly and the %sncfessf,1I
distribution Of finished Is
utterly dependent ubon corresnondin1
facilities Of transportation The task
Of studying America,s. needs for de.
livery and commu1ication and "a svs.
tematically relate its facilities nv AM
and water. by road and rail. Is altask
OF sufficient 1naRnitude to require the
assembling of the most highly. auali.
fled experiences and ability in a trans
portation road.
The declaration OF a great con
structive policy OF Transportation
would clarity public thought and