The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-04-06
FACTS PRESENTED
BY NJ, C. BYERS
President OF Western Maryland Rail-
way Tells Why Road Adopted
Repair Contract Plan.

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Baltimore Sun, Maxwell c. Byers.
President of the Western Maryland
Railway Company, has prepared for
that newspaper a statement giving the
reasons why the railway company
placed its repair work in the hands
of contracting company, move
which has led to a strike of certain
employees.
The statement is important because
OF its bearing on the strike in question
and also because it reveals that the
determined policy of railroad CON-
panies is to strive to restore normal
freight and passengers rates. To do
so the railroads must reduce the cost
of railroad labor as well as the cost
of all materials and commodities used
by them.
Mr.. Byers in his statement gives ex-
preston to many vital points involved
in the present railroad situation.
''The business of the Western Mary
land Railway Company" says Mr..
Byers, sis transportation or the op-
GRAFTON Of freight and passenger
trains The company has not con-
tracted, nor has it in contemplation
contracting, this work or any part of
it. The repair of locomotives and cars
is incidental to the business of run
ming trains and the question of wheth-
er the railway company itself do such
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companies under contract has been
determined, and ought to be deter
mined by the management, and
by other railroads also with a view
primarily to economy. In other words.
when railway company finds that it
can repair its cars and engines in its
own shops more economically than it
can have them repaired by outside
companies, it naturally does such work
itself; it follows equally naturally that
when the railway company finds it can
have such work done more economic
ally by contractors than it can do it.
self such contracts are made.
There never was a time when there
was so great a need for economy in
railroad operation as today, This is
true in the interests of the public, for
whether freight and passenger rates
are high or low depends on what it
costs the railroads to operate. There
fore when the management of the
Western Maryland found, after a care
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