The Connecticut labor news., 1921-10-28
ECONOMIST OF WIDE REPUTE IS RIDDLING
 RAILROAD FIGURES
F. l. Warne Represents Workers Before Senate Interstate Com
 merce Committee.

Washington, Oct. 28.-Iestlmony presented by railroad executives to the Senate committee on interstate commerce ln support ot ther plea for a government subsidy Ot $5oo,- ooo, o,ooo IS being analysed and r1ddled by Frank J. Warne, statistician for the Transportation Brotherhoods. In his first statement to the Senate committee, before which he is now appearing as representative of the Brotherhoods, MT. Warne decladed that railroad statistics for 1920, cov- ering the period Of Federal guaran- tee, are absolutely unreliable. He cited as proof of this charge that the Interstate Commerce Commission had charged back to carriers large sums that had been ploughed into the accounts as expenses for which there was no justification.
 Mr. Warne is an economist of na- tional reputation and has participated in many important negotiations. In 1912 he served with Prof. Frank H.. Dixon, professor of economics at Princeton University, as one of the two statisticians of the Federal board of arbitration appointed by the Pres ident to consider and decided wages and labor demands of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers ln its concerted movements against the rail roads of the eastern territory.
 Served in Wage Issues.
 In the following year, MT. Warne represented the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in the prepara- ton and presentation of evidence be- fore the Federal board of arbitration appointed by the President under the Newlands act to settle the wage de- mands of the brotherhoods upon B of the more important railroads Ot the eastern territory,
 In 1914 MT. Warne represented bit luminous coal shippers of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio in the preparation and presentation of evidence and as an expert witness before the Interstate Commerce Commission in opposition to the increase in freight rates asked by the railroads of the eastern terri tory, in what is known as the 5 per cent case" In 1915 he was an eX- pert witness for bituminous coal ship pers before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the. lake cargo coal case and the IS per cent. advance rate case.
 Served in Eight Hour Case
 In addition to these services, MT. Warne has been consulting economist to various state railroad commis ssions on matters of railway finance and op- eration on which he is regarded as an authority.
 He has appeared as witness on rail road problems before various com mittees of the House and Senate of Congress. In the eight-hour move ment of all railway employees engaged in the operation of trains against all the railroads of the country, he rep resented the Order of Railway Con- ductors and the Brotherhod of Rail road Trainmen in the preparation of evidence in support of their conten- ton for shorter hours of work, and was the statistical representative of these two organizations on the eight hour commission appointed by Pres ident Wilson in I9I6.
 MT. Warne is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and Economy and the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. The degrees of master of arts and doctor of philosophy were conferred upon him by the university. He was sen for fellow in economics at Pennsyl- vania in 1902 and from 1903 to 1900 research fellow in economies at that institution Dr. Warne is also auth or of more than a scole of standard works on economies.