Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-28
COMMERCE BOARD To
SEND ENJOYS AFTER
TRADE WITH RUSSIA
Foreign Group Of Chamber De
clare the Reign Of the Soviet
Nov Nears End.
PLEA TO r. r. WORKERS
NOT TO TIE UP NATION
ny Associated Press to Every Evening

Atlantic City. N. j., April 2s.--The
Board of Directors Of tho United States
Chamber Of Commerce today authorized
appointment of q commission 20 proceed
to Europe to investigate the possibility
~ resumption Of trade relations between
the United States and the Russian people
President Homer l.. Ferguson. was
directed 10 name the members of the COM
mission and slso from the board of directors
10 confer with the presidents Of number
of large manufacturing corporations, who
requested the chamber to appoint the
commission.
The action was taken in an executive
session Of the board after President Fergu-
son had presented correspondence with
Allen Wardell, temporary secretary of a
committee composed Of the heads Of SOW
eral manufacturing corporations, inviting
the boards cooperation in an effort to
determine conditions under which trade
with the Russian people might be resumed.
The foreign commerce group Of the
chamber previously had unanimously
adopted resolution proposing American
trade with Russia be resumed, and char
acterizlug the soviet government as
falling regime
George A. Post. chairman Of tho
chambers railroad committee. declared
we have the right 10 expect and insist
that the railroad employees will CO.
operate with their officers and keep the
wheels rolling and not paralyze commerce
with uuarrels among themselves, which in
effect is a strike against the public whose
Congress has established a tribunal for
the fair, impartial adjudication Of labor
disputes.
John IT, Pardee. president of the Aueri-
can Electric Railway Association, before
the convention Of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce here today APP
pealed to business men OF the country 70
help save The electric lines from ruin.
"fhe plain truth" said he, Is that
their credit no longer exists and neces-
s8ry public service is beinn slowly, per-
haps, but no less surely destroyed"
What the electric railways ask, he said,
is that the laws, ordinances, or agree
ments which now control them be 50 re-
adjusted az 70 make The price ct which
their product is sold dependent upon the
cost Of production, and not upon an arbi-
trary fixed allowance
MIR. Pardee urged the increased use of
electric lines for short haul freight aud
passenger business
'''The National Chamber Of Commerce
represents a large part Of the public and
IL seems entirely proper, indeed impera-
tive, that an appeal should be to this body.
and to all those who you represent, 20 see
10 10 that no Congressman OF Senator IS
defeated because supporting this.
Every mothers son Of the Chamber
of Commerce Of the United States owes IL
TO himself, 10 his country. and 20 the
target Of organized warth to see to II that
fair public service shall have
its reward in militant support at our
hands
"The railroads today are short at least
4, 600 locomotives, 100000 freight cars,
and 5000 passenger cars. and because of
the high. cost Of borrowings and the re-
money market they are not con-
tracing for enough additional equipment
to relieve the situation"