Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-05
WORKERS
TIME is Al HANU
FOR PUBLIC TO ACT
Would Issue Government
Bonds to Buy Trans
portation Lines.
TRtPARTlTE MANAGEMENT
OF SYSTEMS THEIR PLAN
Would Have the People, Operat-
ing Managements and Work
ers Represented.
REMEDY FOR HIGH COST EVIL
Engineers, Firemen, Conductors and
American Federation Of Labor
Join in Movement.
REMEDY FOR HIGH COST EVIL
Firemen, Conductors and
American Federation OF Labor
Join in Movement.
rBy Associa tod Press ]

BY Associa tod Press1
WASHINGTON. August 4.-Organized
labor came out today with the un-
equivocal formal demand that private
capital be retired from the railroads.
a tripartite control committee. COM
posed of the public, the operating
nagement and the employees Is de-
manded instead.
Addressed to the American public.
and signed BY the engineers the fire.
men. the conductors and the American
Federation OF Labor. a formal state
ment was issued announcing this pro-
posal. which will be carried before
Congress Wednesday.
1t marks" sayS the statement, the
step by which organized labor passes
ff9m IN nds demands th,i for wage increases TO
industry be overhauled." s1,,- ~
Is Considered Serious Demand.
This sentence sums up in few
words the proposal of which there
Hinis rf fRe sss
| for the first time. Eyerywhere i'm Of
helal tSa most WashinEion it is recognized as
proposition the country will be ii ealisi
labor's BILL" 1t is put forth as a remedy
Ior the high cost of living. because the
oa paitbeads tbe are the key to the Industry
cooperation and partnership basel ON
a,r real community, interest and partici-
Wilson spoke to Congress-, and which
by 1bs labor "a. !o,an and the private owners Of
of Ms sSs 1S5 uh,ea j ssys that the 5aroaas
GTonducting that industry not from
oeinas MIL street. but from the railroad
aees poad inns and yards sh. and out on the rail-
service for the public" '''-'
HShhiehy. iabor's plan demands
from the railroads. o
Honest-Dollnr" Reimbursement
Ihat the private owners receiv. ,o-
i, inem government bonds with a txe5
thai they have 'Hl investsS.. eyeay honest dollar
That the tripartite control ber.,o
nor rore Tererrsd to be estabshed in eop-
and an, I i IN n which the public. the operating
manasements and labor Shall he rnn
Ihat the public. the operators ana
resenSa res Masnearners n arner share equally ali
private Te capiisl m fnress bo OF the guarantee d,
operators and the empioyeess ono no me
mads rne sayings hx s,, which are expected to % be
Ton and the 'h public eeffsetsd tse etb. erSsnlzs
cGinsumers, cons either by Increasing s't sers as
ducipE diTd wi.nout ens,, adding costs or By re-
This role originates with ,.hor.
5ays 5s snnsns the statement. Because 1885 1897
throash Whieh VI savH i, msH 5i1~ .orsanizations
late" "iaS become articu-
the ahf 'Fan"sn are 10
president OF the brotherhood Va W: Lee, s,
H5 ioin ahe city. but it was said they WouGd uII
~, Text of EpochaI statem.n,
IN, mne statement follows:
patches 'nnoendSes from Ws In telegraphed dis
RIan,on Of Tesas zTesssh that 1 tbs
".'rs the governmnnt arg n9,tding up Congress and
This appeal is made to the we.i - cease.
people direct. Il invokes the juden,ant
Of ali the pubis fehse wb;IGn OF Gubie sentiment
or stipend. We recocnizs tS.tt t~atsse
Only ,hy way in which we can exist undas das
ther Increases in wages But we a. ers,
sfrords W11n dReLpresentative L,t Blanton that this
Labors bill, on the other hand nro-
vides !, remedy and we ask merely that
,,s lis terms be scrutinixed. Our fuli arg1s
be presented on Wednesday before ~. tha
, raouSe committees on Interstate Com
ciple. o pF'"-
Organized for Action.
Is merely because labor happens r.
nave :, nrm organizations through which
~ nhaJ become articulate. It Is noe
70 Deneht labor as labor alone: II lie
20 heneht the consuming public. Of
winch labor at present is tho audible
part In iabor's bill providing thai
me public take over the railroads and
establish tripartite control between
the public, the railroad operating man
asement and the employees, the labor
nrEa I,r aniZations OF America have estab-
.ished THIS new policy which envisaSes
their condition not only as producers.
out also as consumers.
II marks the step by which organ.
ized labor passes from demands for
wage increases to demands that the
system OF prohts In Industry be over
hauled Hitherto. during successive
wage negotiations and arbitration
awards. we have called for provisional
settlements only. of questions aris-
ing out OF differences as to wages,
That principle of genuine co-opera-
ton and partnership based upon a real
community OF interest and participa-.
ton In CONTROL OF which President
Wilson has spoken to Congress- has
been ignored both by labor and by
the private owners OF tho railroadsa
increases Absorbed by Fl. G. 4. 81
What wage increases have been re.
ceived during the past few years re.
suited only in Immediately being fol.
lowed by more than proportionats m,
eseascs In the cost Of living. Each