Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1920-02-25
RAIL EXECUTIVES
To ASSIST HINES
Otter to Expedite Forming of
Body to Act.
SEEKS RAILROADS ATTITUDE
Union Leaders to Protest AGAINST
Wage Provisions of Recrganza-
ton Measure - Congressman
Barley Attacks Bill.

dSIHHSlOl neD. IA committee
of railroad executives rendered their
cooperation to Director General
Hines in carrying out the proposal of
President Wilson for the creation of a
committee Of experts TO gather data
on the wage question. They ex-
pressed themselves as fully appreci-
ating the desirability of expedition in
handling the wage question.
The time and method of constitut-
ing the committee of experts will be
considered further by Mr. Hines with
the heads of the labor organizations
before he makes q recommendation to
the president.
I. Dewitt Cuyler, spokesman for the
railroad officials, informed Mr.. Hines
that the executives would suggest the
names of the corporation representa-
tives on the committee at the presi-
dents request
The results of the conference be-
tween the director general and the
railroad officials was communicated
to the union leaders who are here
awaiting the general conference of
committeeman called for next Mon
day
Try to Learn Corporation Stand.
The conference with the railroad
executives was called by Mr.. Hines to
ascertain the attitude which the rail-
road corporations would assume to-
ward the proposal advanced by Presi-
dent Wilson in his reply to the de-
mands of railroad employees that a
federal commission be appointed to
consider the wage problem.
The committee of railroad officials
appointed by Thomas De Witt Cuyler,
chairman of the association Of rail-
way executives, at the request of Di-
rector General Hines, is composed of
the following: Harry Bronner, E. N.
Brown, S. 7. Bledsoe, H. E. Byram,
w. r. Cole, Howard Elliott, s. NJ. Eel
ton, w. H. Finley, Carl r. Gray,
Charles Hayden, L. E. Johnson, How
ard G. Kelley, Julius Kruittschnitt, e.
E. LoomiS, J.. F. Lorff, Robert S. Low
EFT, c. H. Markham, William Church
Osborne, Samuel Rea, Bird NJ. Rob-
inson, w. L. Ross, A. Fl. Smith, F. D..
Underwood, Fl. Walters and Daniel
Willard.
Protest against the wage provision
of the completed railroad bill will be
made in letters to President Wilson
and Director General Hines which rep
resentatives of the railroad union or
carnations and officials of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor were franz
ing at conferences at the federation
headquarters.
Trackmen> Consider Situation.
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 20-The rail-
road wage situation was considered at
a special meeting here of the execu-
tive committee of the Brotherhood Of
Maintenance of Way Employees and
Railway Shop Laborers.
Plans of the union to participate in
the conference of general chairmen OF
the railway brOtherhoods to be held
in Washington next Monday were also
discussed Heads of the union de-
cined to say whether any Independent
action was contemplated, although
President Allen e. Barker declared in
calling the meeting that the strike or
ganization, set up for the wall1out that
was scheduled for last Tuesday, but
postponed, would be kept intact.
The union officials were hopeful,
they declared, of an early settlement
of the wage controversy.
Barley Attacks Rail Bill.
washington, Feb. 20-The railroad
bill as reported out by the senate
and house conference was denounced
by Representative Alben W. Barley
of Kentucky, as the result of the
greatest propaganda ever attempted in
behalf of private interests at a time
when the American people are think
ing of other things"
The efforts of the railroad lobbyists
who "have camped on the doorsteps
of congress for more than year." are
"abundantly rewarded" said Mr..
Barkley, while the fundamental
rights and interests of the people are
entirely ignored"
The Kentucky congressman was one
of the two Democratic conferees on
the part of the house who refused to
sign the conference report. His state
ment was a severe Indictment of all
of the principal sections of the bill.
IT'S good features, he said, ARE over
balanced and rendered insignificant by
the unjust, unnecessary, un-American
and unconstitutional provisions which
seek to give an unnatural and unjus-
tifable value to railway securities of