Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-14
RAILROAD LABOR
PROBLEM LOADED
VI |TH DYNAMITE
OF F|C|AL SAYS
Workers Must Surrender the
Right to Strike if the
Transportation Situation
Is to Be Stabilized,
LIBERAL PAY FOR THE
EMPLOYEES IS FAVORED
Mining Congress Would
Strip Unions and Employ
erS of the Ability TO Inter-
fere With Traffic,

Cleveland Oct. l3 (by the Asso-
ciated Press). - Railroad labor
must surrender the right to strike
If the railway situation is to be
stabilized and 1.-The rights of the
people to uninterrupted transport
alton service permanently secured"
Elisha ]. Lee, vice president of the
Pennsylvania lines declared in an
address tonight at the annual ban
quet of the American Mining con-
gress.
Il am not prepared to say at the
present time" Mr.. Lee said, that
we should go to the length of abb
solutely forbidding railroad strikes
by specific statutes. Nor would
attempt otherwise to lay down any
particular method by which C.
ceptance of this basically correct
principle may be brought about.
Must BE Accomplished.
81 am only sure CT one thing
and that is that It must be ac-
complished in some way IL the
railroad labor situation is to be
stabilized
Mr.. Lee described tho Pennsyl-
vania's system of labor relations
which brought it into conflict with
the railroad labor board this year
He also quoted with approval a re-
cent statement of W. G.. Lee, pres
ident Of the Brotherhood of Train
men, saying that this whole bust
ness OF railway labor got too big
for any one man or a few men to
handle. 1t is loaded with dyna
mite for the country as well as
for ourselves and the executives"
with these observations" Eli
STA Lee continued, IL heartily con-
cur.
Railroad management has the
social duty of effecting revival
among working forces OF the spirit
of ambition, enterprise and social
progress. / wish we could return
TO the condition which existed in
the days when every man entering
the ranks Thought chat he had o
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 posi-
tion which his abilities could win
NJ SlGdltI HuItu uclS Dttil upIt
than has resulted from the efforts
of some labor organizations ana
their leaders attempting to create
permanent gulf between ne
working classes and the manag-
ing classes and teaching the work
ers that his hope lies, not in i'm
proving himself as a producer, or
in fitting himself for more respJn-
sble duties, but in eXacting the
highest pay that he can possibly
obtain for the least work he can
compel his employer to accept"
One of Public's Rights.
Mr.. Lee declared that one Of the
public's rights was transportation
at a reasonable cost, and that this
entailed, on the part of railway
management resistance against
Expensive wage scales and unrea-
sonable working conditions"
Excessive demands on the part
of labor, he asserted, constituted
questions not between labor and
capital, but between railway labor
and the public. This does not
mean that railroad men should be
dealt with parsimoniously," hs
continued. They should be fairly
paid, we'll paid. Personally, | viii
go to the length of saying that |
am in favor of railroad workers
being literally paid. And the hours
of labor and working conditions
should be compatible with proper
rest. recreation and the enjoyment
of home life. 1t is only waste az
| aL condemning.
Delegates passed a resolution de-
claring that claws should be maze
and enforced by all the power OF
the government that shall forever
strip labor organizations as wen
as employers of the ability to in
terfere with the production ans
distribution of the necessities OF
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