Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-14
'CLASS RULE HIT BY SEN. HARDING IN LATE SPEECH .BEF0RE RA|LMEN
 Assails Plan to Place R. R.
 at Disposal of Railway Workers of Country
 BRANDS MOVE AS ONE IN SOCIALISTIC DIRECTION Says Cummins Act Does Not :! Interfere With Collec- tive Bargaining
BRANDS MOVE AS ONE IN SOCIALISTIC DIRECTION
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 MARION, Ohio, Sept. 13.- Reaf firming his support of the Cummins Esch Act restoring the railways to their owners, Senator Harding charg ed in his speech to a delegation of railway workers late today that by assuming control of the roads at all the Wilson administration had sought to promote a policy based on perma- nent government operation.
 Had the experiment proved sue cess, the Republican nominee declar- ed, the administration would have favored retention of the transporta- tion lines and other public utilities under government control. The war he said, had offered an opportunity to try out the scheme only because it permitted administration officials "to take advantage of the anxieties of the people" in asking authority to take over the properties.
 The senator also assailed as
 "Sociaistic" and Revolutionary"
 
 or leaders to put the railways at
 the disposal of the railway work
 CTS. The Cummins-Esch bill, he
 said, was the best measure con-
 gross could work out in the time
 allotted and gave to both rail
 way owners and employees just
 guarantee of rights.
 Several hundred union men. com posing the Harding and Coolidge rail way club of Marion. were in the del egation and they cheered the nomi- nee as he hit at class rule and lauded the labor provisions of the act.
 Carry Harding Banner
 They carried banners expressing their support in such inscriptions as "the government must change con ductors."; Harding will not side track us;" and safety first, elect Harding"
 J. w. Rosebury. past president of the local unit of the Order of Rail- road Trainmen. presented the dele gation' to Senator Harding and told him they hoped by coming to prove his fallacy of "the impression that railway workers are opposed to your candidacy because of your support of the Cummins-Esch Act"
 Conceding that the act was mot perfect" Senator Harding character ,ized it as 'the most considerate piece of legislation ever enacted in the
 .k nf WnI,l, n p n in this country"
 Batting Made Difficult
 "When the world war came on. he continued, i've had gone so far in restriction and regulation that the governments response to much oi the railway batting made it difficult for the railway management to keeI pace with the expanding require ments of the country. It is not i'm portant to discuss now whether the railway service was breaking dowI under the great strain put upon it fol war service The country was appre i hensive and we were all deeply con cerned in putting everything that w' possessed at the command of the l government for the winning of th' war. With such a feeling manifes | throughout the country the railroad were taken over for the war. In | doubtedly there was back of tn movement in the insistent forces il our country who believe in govern ment ownership of railroads. Wa seemed to offer the opportunity fo the application of their theories 0 government and I sometimes suspeC the taking over of the railroads wa
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