The Glenwood post., 1920-05-08
Uade Tets 81 liz SterieS
Current Events For the Children
and 0rown-ues, TO
A RAILROAD STRIKE AND
LOST MONEY

"Is it true, Uncle Ted" asked
Jack, "that lot of sheep and sows
died during the railroad strike because
they didn It get any water.'
"Well," answered Uncle Ted, "I
don't know that lot of them died
because of the strike but i do know
that many of them that were on delay
ed trains suffered for lack of food and
water. And the sad part of it was
that at that very time everyone
throughout the United States was ask
ed to remember the slogan Be kind to
animals There was danger of lots of
people being hungry, too. The strike
seems to be all over now but it has
shown the country that it is not i'm
possible fJr . certain class of people
better known as radicals to hold up
the trains in the hope that it would
he the begin, ing of q union to be used
by the bolshevik elements in this coun-
try. For long time this class of peo-
pie has been trying to use the railroad
workers as a means of furthering their
scheme to make the government buy
the railroads and let the employees
manage them. Under their plan the
government would borrow about TWEEN
ty billion dollars to buy the railroads
and then form a committee to control
them, with the workers in a position
to control the committee. Thus thew
could practically fix their own wages.
hours of labor and so forth All the
rest of the people of the country would
be expected, under that plan, to paw
freight and passenger rates high
enough to give the railroad employees
everything they wanted. The better
class of railroad workers do not favor
that plan for they know that it would
be bad for the country and bad for
them in the end.
| "Tsn't there some wav to settle dis
putes without strikes'' asked Ruth
Ono very definite and certain way,
at present. replied Uncle Ted.
''There was n plan proposed hut it
did no get votes enough in congress
to put it into effect Two or three
months ago. when congress was pass
ing law for the return of the rail
roads to their owners, Senator Cum
Minis wrote section of the bill which
would forbid strikes and require the
workers and the railroad managers to
submit their differences to sort of
court to be settled according to what
seemed to be right after all the con
ditions had been taken into considera-
tion. 7 believe it would be better to
have disputes settled that wav than
TO have n strike that would not only
stop the cattle trains and leave the
cattle and sheep to 90 hungry and
thirsty but also keep people in cities
from getting food and clothing and
fuel.n
The railroads aren't being run by
the government now are thcyH" asked
Jack
Ono, Jack You surely remember
me telling You all about that. They
were turned back to their owners many
weeks ago. But that really brings me
back to the story | wanted to tell Won
about tonight That is about the
| great amount of money that it cost
| the United States to run the rail
~oads"
GLOW much was itf' asked Ruth
"Thc total loss to the government
Of thr United States due to the gov
crnmcnt running tie railroads has been
placed at mere than $1,129 900, 00O!'
"Gec,' exclaimed Jack, CHAT an
awful lot Of ntrey
at certainly is lot Of money. Jack
| This amount has been estimated by
the appropriations committee of the
House of Representatives. and it in
cludcs the amount of 1925 ,OOO,0
which was estimated as the guarantees
TO the railroads by the wording of the
transportation law. The actual loss to
the government during the 20 months
of government control was placed by