The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-02-11
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UP STATEMENTS
OF ROAD HEADS
Declares Rail- Labor Made Sac
ritlces and Managers Fell
=, Down During the War.
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Americans should always deport
themselves without pressure.
How They Retaliated. 80.
And ever since-for nearly four
years-those bob-tailed railroad
presidents, discharged for in COM
potency or disloyalty or whatever
it was-have been employing Ivy
Lee and kindred professional high
binders to denounce the government
and destroy the peoples confidence
IN it.
The only basis for their grudge
is that they were tried and found
wanting and were retired for the
good Of the service. The nation
wasn't going to lose the war because
petty, petuiant and pussillanimous
presidents Of railroads were pull
hauling the wrong way. Not IT
McAdoo could help it. And he could
help it.. and he did, and: there you
are.
The workers didn't take strangle
hold on Uncle Sam and hold up for
wages. McAdoo says they received
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in competitive industries performing
similar work.
Worked for Low Wages.
They worked for year of war
at starvation wages. Then they got
an increase, but still worked under
the subsistence level.
And they worked, too, II McAdoo
v1rhof to foI1iS,op al
They gave periodically and album
dainty, he says, and he is backed up
by railroad officials who were not
skuttling the transportation machine.
Here is the record, as it is given
by McAdoo:
'The fact is that railroad employees
worked for less pay during the war
than any other class OF industrial
workers doing similar work. The
further fact is that no fair COM
plant can be made Of the part the
railroad employees performed dur
ing the war. The realization that
they were working for their gov
eminent, in the stress and strain
of war; that their patriotic service
was essential to victory, and that
they would be fairly treated, in
spired and spurred them to unusual
effort and faithful service.''
Compare Their Records.
Compare that record, men and
brothers, with the record Of the exc
cutives, guilty of disloya1ity and sa-
botage and placed where they were
incapable of further embarrassing the
government.
The workers sacrificed. while the
managers skulked. The workers
realized they were working for their
government, while the president
were working against the govern
ment.
And thus it goes, throughout the
long, list, Of railroad mendacity.
Railroad managers have not hesti-
tated to tampor with the truth when
a lie best served their purpose. But
they must now face the facts as. they
are being uncovered. For the next
few months they will be under the
grim necessity of explaining to the
people their delinquencies during
the stress Of war.
Workers have doubtless been dis
couraged and dismayed by the bar
RACES Of falsehood laid down before
them, but they are not dismayed.
They have an abiding faith in the
justice Of their cause and in the
inherent fairness Of the people.
They rightfully believe that. when
the true character Of the presidents
OF railroads and the shamelessness
of their disservice to the nation Is
fully known and appreciated there
will be a revulsion of sentiment that
will sweep the decayed and decrepit
transportation system away and with
it all those who are responsible for
its collapse.