New Britain herald., 1919-05-16

N pretend the hope of the
 P1s only to be found in it's de- 9D1tf f6ction' that the organization is one hundred per cent American and that 'it does not subscribe to any theory that proposes to throw every body into one common slough of de- spondency for the purpose of eXperi- menting in the hope that out of this general mental and physical misery an average may come that will bring about a general better condition of affairs for a majority of the people , is the railroad mems attitude toward the government of our representative G. Lee, president of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen, in his address before the convention here today.
 ''We stand for no such doctrine of destruction and ruin; we believe in the government of oru representative nations and stand as 100 per cent Americans ready to defend our prin- cip1es and our faith" he declared.
 AS proof of the broth herhOOd'S loy- atty and Americanism'' he said 16,- 900 members of the organization LOOK their places willingly in the ranks or armies and almost 200 of them are sleeping in the soil of France in proof of their loyalty and devotion to the land they called their own.
 In referring to the brotherhood MT. Lee at all times included the mem bership in Canada as well as in the | United States /
 ''There are labor organizations MT. Lee continued, that seek refuge under the banner of Ia Dor flnionism that properly have no right to claim affiliation with labor Organizations,
 1f mess to raise. .tfle red flag of anarchy and declare for the revolution Of .eyery~6pportunity I want to assure you that the brotherhood of railroad trainmen has neither part nor pur- pose in any scheme that proposes to destroy this government or take from any citizen either privilege or prob- erty that properly belongs to him; we have no sympathy with any plan that finds it's basic purpose in the destruction of government or the or ganized forms of law and order; we do not subscribe to any propaganda that proposes a policy of destruction to find in common basis of misery it's expected hopes for reconstruction.
 we have not lost faith in our gov ernment nor in our felloW-men; we know that we have in our keeping the continuity of our government, the perpetuation of our common welfare, and we believe that it is not necessary to transplant anarchy or an autocratic government by a few self-selected rulers to preside over the destinies of a free-born American people.
 "Tf1e very assumption of power or autocracy established by those who . have superseded former governments gives truth to the assertion that in whatever changes of this kind have been made, one autocracy has sue ceeded in which the last condition of the people was worse than the first, and the very fact that few assume to control the welfare and destinies of the man sets al naught all of their pretenses to a common rule, by the common people, for the common peo- pie"
 MT. Lee said the organization pur- poses to continue along the same lines as in the past and added
 we believe in our government; we believe in the expressions of our pres ident and all the other authorities of the government who have declared emphatically their belief that the American workman is entitled to a wage I!ldl VII insure d fedSOntlDIy decent standard of living. We pro- pose to direct our energies toward getting that decent standard of living and we propose to do it along orderly and legal lines, wholly within our rights as American citizens and in keeping with our belief that the work man is worthy of his hire"
 - MT. Lee discussed the insurance plan of the organization, saying s35, 100000 in death and disa bility claims have been paid to 45 900 in the past 35 years. During the past year, he said, $3,000.000 had been paid due to demands occasioned by the war and pestlence. He declared the organ- zation, which comprises 1S6, 900 mem- gbers has been largely responsible for many of the labor laws enacted by the federal and state governments