The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03
H | OOPE R CHARGES. U N | l N { SEEKING. II DESTROY ROADS.
Active Campaign Being Made For Acceptance of Plumb
 Plan of Ownership, La
 Dor Board Head Says
By Associated Tres.

Chicago, December 2.-Ben W. Hooper. chairman of the railroad labor board, in speech before the Illinois Bar association here tonight, charged that many railway union leaders are waging warfare against the roads with the purpose of de- stroying the industry and forward ing political campaign for govern ment ownership.
 "A large portion of the union magazines which pass over my desk contain bitter attacks on the rail- roads, their arrangements and their policies" he said. "These criticisms are not confined to matters of di- rect controversy between the rail- ways and the employees, but they cover every ground of attack that might be made by those outside of railroad employment.
 Stir ID Hatred
 Nothing is left unsaid that seems to be calculated 10 stir up hatred among the employees and dlstrust and hostility among tue people.
 Railroad labor organizations are largely committed to the Plumb plan of railroad operation. which is gov ernment ownership with private operation In which the employees shall participate managerially and share the profits financially. If there should be losses instead of profits, the owners, that is the people, would dig up taxes to pay the deficit"
 Tn their efforts to further govern mont ownership employees are opposed to the transportation act and the railroad labor board, he said, because they feel that the successful adjust ment of wages and working condi tions and the gradual but certain re- duction of freight rates under that act will conduce to the postponement or prevention of government owner ship. lie continued:
 Oppose Courts
 Tn the political program of the labor leaders, two definite demands are made: First, that the injunctiye powers exercised by the courts in connection with strikes be withdrawn or greatly limited and. second, that the constitution be so amended that Congress can set aside the decision of the federal court which pro- uounces an act of Congress uncon-. stitutional.
 ''The pernicious doctrine that the courts are dominated by the rich and powerful is fed to an element Of the people who, by reason of deficient training and highly sensational class consciousness, are peculiarly suscep- tible to its baleful influence.
 When man becomes thoroughly sa aturated with this distrust of the courts. he is no longer good Amer ican citizen. His mind is befogged with dark suspicious and he nurses ! fancied grievance against his govern ment He is converted into a fit in- strument of disloyalty and treason. The man who consistently labors 10 destroy the faith of the people in the courta whether he be bomb throwing anarchist or United States congressman. is guilty of the most insidious treachery to the re- public.
 Constitution Took Time
 There are men today who think lildt tHt dIdjtiilE LII ouF iEQtTdl tQH- stitution required no greater cxpendi- ture of time, effort and intellect than is necessary for the publication of one issue of a yellow newspaper. They blatantly denounce the judiez iary and threaten to make it sub seryient to the kaleidoscopie changes in public sentiment reflected in sue cessive congresses.
 Under such q system. it might happen that the boil weevil, the army worm. the Hession fly. and the grass hopper would set aside the national constitution for combination of such inseetiyerous pests will now and then elect Congress. On any fine November morning a concatenation of annoyances might generate the poIi- tical bacteria in the popular stomach that would set up the grouch which would kick over the constitution
 The big problem Of organized labor today is identical with that of organized capital and that is. how 10 avoid the abuse of great power And it may be well remembered that a despotism of the many may be as detcstable as the sindividual,''
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