Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-08
WILSON DEMANDS
RETURN TO WORK
and RECOGNIZE
HEADS OF UNIONS
Strikers Reported Will
ing to Accept Presi-
dents Proposal
HIGH COST TO
BE LOWERED
Wage Increase Now Up
to the Workers
Themselves

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.--'By AS
sociated Press Address CON
gress late today, propos'ns remedies
to check the high ost of .i.inv PresR
9ect Wilson Ie la ed that existirg
avs are inadequate; that high Prices
are not justified by ank s'.c,;aec,
either present or prospective, but has
been created in many cases "artifc-
tally and deliberately" by vicious
practices"
TIE recommended that the food con-
troll act be extended to peace time
operation; that congress exclude
from interstate, as well as intrastate
shipment, all goods which did not
comply with all the provisions recon-
mended; thai the food law be pro-
vided with substantial penalty for
profiteering; that a cold storage law
modelled after the New Jersey sta
fute, by which a time limit os placed
on the cold storage of food products
and that all goods when released from
storage be marked with the price
prevailing when they went into stor-
age.
The president further recommend
ed that all goods in interstate COM
merce be marked with the prices at
which they left the producer.
He also recommended federal
licensing system for all corporations
engaged in interstate commerce; urg-
ed the prompt passage of law now
pending to control security issues.
making an appeal for ratification of
the peace treaty to turn the country
from war sbais, the president said:
"There can be no peace prices so
long as our whole financial and eco
nomic SYSTEM is on a war basis"
WASHINGTON, August s. (By
Associated Press.) Director General
Hines today awaited word from the
unions that sll of The striking shop
men had returned to work before un-
dertaking to carry out President Viii
sons instructions to settle, the wage
cnorover7y on its merits. The tele-
graph system of the railroad admins
tration was put at the disposal of the
union officers and premptory orders
that the men should go back to .heir
jobs went out to 500 local chairmen
Until the men have resumed work,
~ailroad administration officials said
hey would not discuss the procedure
to be employed in adjusting the wage
| demands. AS the shopmen's reasons
for wanting 25 per cent increase
have been considered thoroughly by
the board of railroad wages and work
ing conditions which divided three
to three, it was believed possible that
the evidence in that case would te
put Immediately before ch director
general for decision
President Wilson wrote the follow
ing open letter to Director General
Hines.
The Presidents letter follows:
81 am just in receipt Of letter
from Sc. ator Albert E. Cunmins,
chairman Of the Senate committee
en- interstate commerce, which set
me Tree 70 uedl dS IiiiAh "."H W.
difficult question of the wages of Ger.
tain classes of railway employees,
and I take advantage of The occas-
ION L. write you this letter, m order
tha. may, both in the puo'h, IN.
terest ard in the interests Of the
railroad employees themselves make
the present situation as clear and |
definite as possible.
81 thought it my duty to lay the
question in its present pressing form
before tn committee Of the Senate,
because / thought / should not act
upon this n,.'ter within the Dr.Gf IN |
terval of Government control re-
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