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RAILBOARDDEFERS
WORKERS HEARING
Labor Side OF Controversy to
Be Presented Monday.
ROADS CONTINUE TESTIMONY
Show Sixty-four Lines. Of. 100000
Miles Make No Protit-Drop 2Co,-
900 Employees.

Miles Make No Protlt-Drop 20o,-
900 Employees.
Chicago, Feb. Misrepresentation of
the employees view of the carriers plea
for immediate abrogation of national
agreements was deferred when The fed
eral railroad labor board met.
1t had been announced b. NJ. Jewell,
acting president of, the Railway En-
ployes' Department of the American
Federation of Labor would reply to
the statement made Monday by General
W. w. Atter6ury on behalf Of the AS.
ISOLATION of Railway Executives.
The board was not prepared to hear
Mr.. Jewell and set Monday for his
statement. He will charge the rail:
roads are attempting TO disrupt the
unions and will MAINTAIN wage de,
creases are unnecessary.
E. A. Whittier, who has been present
ing the railroads evidence in present
rules hearing, read itno the record o
statement by General Atterbury sup
llementing one he made Monday. Ii
set forth a recent canvass of the rail
"oads supported General Atterbury's
assertion "many railroads have no
prospect of earning bare operating ex
)enses" under present conditions. :.
The new Atterbury statement quot,
ID T. Dewitt Cuyler, Philadelphia,
resident of the Association of: Rail
way Executives, as authority for the
anvass. It said:
''The canvass shows tlirty-eiX rail
DADS estimate they failed to earn even
heir operating expenses for the month
# January. Among these roads are:
The Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan
ic, Buffalo and Susquehdnna, Central
# Georgia, Detroit, Toledo and Iron
on, Erie, Great Northern, Gulf and
'hil Island, Hooking Valley, Long Is
and, Minneapolis, st. Paul and Sault
Ste. Marie, Maine Central, New York,
New Haven and Hartford, Northern
Pacific, and Philadelphia and Read
ing.
"While earning their operating eX-
7enses twenty-eight additional roads
estimate that they did not earn their
raxes. and fixed charges in January.
among these are the AriZ ona Eastern,
Atlantic Coast Line, Baltimore and
Ohio, Boston and Maine, Chicago, In
dianapolis and Louisville, Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul, Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific, Lehign Valley. Min
neapolis and st. Louis, dissorri Pa
cific, Norfolk South, Pennsylvania
Lines, Perc Marquette, Western Mary
land and Wheeling and Lake Erie.
Under present tariff and operating
conditions these were the results de-
spite the fact that the sixty-four com
panies referred to-of which only a
partial list is given-have, in the. ag-
rregate, decreased their labor cost of
operation by laying off approximately
90 900 employees since ;eptember l,
1920.
"1hese companies nave total main
line mileage of more than 100000 miles
and constitute approximately. 40 per
cent of the railroad mileage of the
Both, Mr.. Jewell and General After
bury have sent supplementary messages
by wire to President Wilson.
"We are convinced" said telegram
signed by Mr.. Jewell and six other
leaders, "he General At
terbury) wishes to take advantage Of
the temporary unemployment and the
economic condition Of the
railroad workers, which the: railroads
themselves have intensified, to crush
our labor organizations.
1--WE shall show there is no:economic
justification for wage reductions and
q reduction In the general cost Of liv-
ing is not dependent upon a reduction
in our wages.
There Is no doubt the temporary
of the railroads could be
financed by the railroad bankers, II
they were as much interested in the
of railroad credit as some
Of them evidently are in crushing la
Dor organizations and reducing wages.
If the public expects US to maintain
the spirited letter of the law and to
rely upon judicial settlement Of diff
fereDces in an orderly way, we must
be protected against the lll-advised eff
forts Of Mr.. Atterbury and his asso-
ciates, who are violating the procedure
by law and, because OF an
absurd and impossible obsession for
destroying labor organizations, are
resorting to methods which are indie
Tensile and opposed to the public vel
fSra"