Bisbee daily review., 1922-10-14
RAIL STRIKES ARE UP BEFORE
 MINE CONGRESS
Assured Transportation Is Dependent on Right to
 Strike, Says Speaker

CLEVELAND, Oct. 13.-(By the As sociated Press) )-Railroad labor must surrender the right to strike if the railway situation is to be stabilized and the rights of the people to un- interrupted transportation service per manently secured" Elisha J. Lee, vice president of the Pennsylvania line de- clared an an address tonight at the banquet of the American Mining Con- gress.
 T am not prepared to say, at the present time" MT. Lee said, that We should go to the length of absolutely forbidding railroad strikes by specific statutes. Nor would I attempt other wise to lay down any particular meth cd by which acceptance of this basic ally correct principle may be brought about.
 ''I am only sure of one thing, and that is that it must be accomplished in some way if the railroad labor sit uation is to be stabilized"
 Mir. Lee described the Pennsylvania's system of labor relations which brought it into conflict with the rail road labor board this year. He also quoted with approval a recent state ment of w. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, saying that this whole business of railway labor got too big for any one man or a few men to handle. It is loaded with dynamite for the country as we'll as for ouselves, and the ex- ecutives."
 With these observations" Elisha Lee continued, 'I heartily concur"
 Railroad management has the so- cial duty of effecting a revival among working forces of the spirit of ambi- ton, enthusiasm and social progress. I wish we could return to the condi- tion which existed in the days when every man entering the ranks thought he had chance to become president of his own company and he should work for that job if he had it in him, or at any rate for the best position which his habits to win.
 No greater harm has been done than has resulted from the efforts of some labor organizations and their leaders attempting to create a perma- nent gulf between the working classes and the managing classes as a pro- ducer, or in fitting himself for more responsible duties, but in eXacting the highest pay that he can possibly ob- tain for the least work he can com Del his employer to accept"
 MT. Lee declared that one of the public's rights was transportation at a reasonable cost and that this en- tailed, on the part of railway manage ment resistance against expensive wage scales and unreasonable work ing conditions"
 Excessive demands on the part of labor. he asserted, constituted ques- tions not between labor and capital but between railway labor and the public. This does not mean that rail road men should be dealt with par simonously" he continued.
 They should be fairly paid, well paid. Personally, I will go to the length of saying that l am in favor of railroad workers being liberally paid. And the hours of labor and working conditions should be compati- ble with proper rest recreation and the enjoyment of home life. It is only waste that I am condeIhning."
 Delegates passed a resolution de claring that laws should be made and enforced by all the power of the gov ernment that shall cover strip labor organizations as well as employers abil ity to interefere with the production and distribution ot the necessities Of life"