Arizona republican., 1919-08-12
 LABOR LEADERS I USE ENERGIES ! PAC|F FY|NCN MEN SAYS WITNESS
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Present Strikes Are Only Barometers Reflecting IT. dustrial Unrest, He Tels Committeeman
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WASHINGTON. Aug. H. Nina tenths of the energies of labor leadeM are given to the job of sitting on ll& lid. Austin B. Garretson, former heah of the Order of Railway Conductorf testified today before the house intcM7 state commerce committee, which seeking to solve the problem of nov best to handle the railroads after tiaf wartime period of federal control.
 Sporadic strikes throughout tiM country, Garretson said with great earnestness, merely are straws whien show how the wind is blowing over sea of industrial unrest. Rumpiin& heard in many quarters do not meal, he said. that laboring people want F. overthrow the government, but indE' cate a demand that the governme4 function.
 Congress Can AIIsy Unrest
 It is largely in the power of con- gress. the witness declared to allay the feeling.
 But it cannot be done by inaction,r he shouted Somehow the American people are not prone always to do to- day what may be done tomorrow, un- less an emergency focre's us to acr and then we break all records"
 Mir. Garretson said he did not regard the Plumb plan as more than one fac tor in stilling the spirit of present day unrest, nor did he think it would change human nature or other things that can be eliminated"
 T am not dreamer of dreams" he told the committee, which gave un- usual attention to his testimony, for his appearance on the stand put a new breath of life in the railroad hearing. now approaching its second month.
 Responds to All Questions
 The usual method of dealing with witnesses was abandoned. largely at Garretson's request. He had no state ment in written form: when he started to speak. as he expressed it, he did not know where he would stop, and for two hours he was subjected to rapid cross-fire of questions from a dozen members, and for each of which he had a quick reply.
 There was long discussion as to whether it would be possible to keep the railroads out of politics. Mir. Gar retson 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 1a1s when railroad men generally were against Hughes and for Wilson ?9 Rep- resentative Cooper, democrat, Ohio asked
 With all my republican affiliation am somewhat guilty" GaIretson rd< piled. That was purely an act q citizenship.
 Have Not Endorsed Hines
 Mir. Garretson said the four brotf& erhoods had not endorsed Direct8 General Hines.
 But I'll say this,' he added, If H& could have secured the man we wante< doubt seriously if he would have god as far in his efforts to operate sud cessfully the roads as MT. Hines
 Representative Webster. republican, Washington, examined the witness ra| garding what the member charactes4 ized as labor union attempts to cd* cree" him through letters. A warij ij| coIloouy resulted
 Garretson told the committee tf6 press of the country had been attacd ing him for 30 years but that his ski thickened meanwhile and his reputaf tion stood.
 He will resume his testimony to3 morrow
 Mir Garretson. who had been waitin} since early last week to be heard wss1 called to the stand after Glenn Id Plumb the man who framed organizel labor's bill. had conclud-d his testi| mony.
 There was no desire, he said. to ex. l tend the Plumb plan beyond those jnl dustries in which men worked wit fheir. bandS