Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-08-12
MYERS BRANDS
PLUMB R.R. BILL
US, B0LSHEv|SM
Senator Pomerene Also
Says It's Worst Thing
Outside Russia.
GUIDANCE BY STRIKES
URGED UPON CONGRESS

Washington, Aug. 1.-The Plumb
plan was denounced In the senate,
today, by Senator Myers, democrat,
of Montana, as an attempt 10
'sovIetize" America.
"There has long been created an
insiduous effort to teach boIshevism
said Senator Myers. ~ have won
dered who would take 1t upon him
self to put in concrete form the
issue of boshevism. As long as it
was abstract. ! feared no danger.
The veil of mystery has been lifted.
am sorry to say that it falls to
the railroad brotherhood to present
concrete test Of boIshevism against
Americanism. am ready to meet
the test-to sacrifice both my
political and physical strength If
necessary-ratFer than be a party
to sovietizing this country's in
dustries."
"The issue now Is b0Ishevism
against Americanism. 1t cannot be
lodged or sIdetracked. There Is no
middle ground"
Pomerene Also Denounces 1t.
The plan was also denounced AS
vicious with nothing akin to it out
side Of bolsheyik Russia" by Senator
Pomerene. democrat. Ohio, in a letter
sent to officials of the railroad brother
hoods in Ohio and made public today.
Declaring the plan was worse than
socialism," Senator Pomerene said the
American people would never approve
it '.or anything akin to it. and added:
"The public does not want to be
skinned. but if it must be skinned, it
will make little difference whether it is
by Wall Street or by the method provid-
ed for in the proposed Plumb plan"
Approaching the close of his long stay
in support of his plan for tripartite
control Of railroads, Glenn Plumb today
called the attention of the house inter
state commerce committee to what he
described as the "glaring defects" in
other proposals submitted for solution
of the railroad problem.
Naturalization of railroads is only
one Of the many questions entering into
the high cost of living, A. b. Garret-
son. former head of the order of rail-
way conductors. testified. Mr.. Garret-
son contended that the government had
no right to demand or permit a profit
on transportation.
Strikes Signs That Inform.
Sporadic strikes thruout the country,
Garreston said with great earnestness,
merely are strikes which show how the
wind is blowing over a sea of industrial
unrest. Rumblngs heard in many quar-
ters do not mean. he said that laboring
people want to overthrow the govern
ment, but indicate a demand that the
government function
1t is largely in the power Of congress,
the witness declared, to allay the feeling.
But it cannot be done by inaction,"
he shouted. Somehow the American
people are not prone always to do today
what may be done tomorrow, unless an
emergency forces us to act, and then we
break all records"
Question of Politics.
There was a long discussion as to
whether it would be possible to keep
the railroads out Of politics. Mr.. Garrett
son declared that. as spokesman Of his
organization, he wanted to prevent men
who could exercise political pull from
exercising it,
How about the campaign Of 1916,
when railroad men generally were against
Hughes and for Wilson," Representative
Cooper, democrat Ohio, asked
with all my republican affiliation l
am somewhat guilty" Garretson replied.
That was purely an act of citizenship"