The Washington times., 1922-07-24


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selves to working instead Of to- strik
ing they will be permitted to share
in the increased proceeds Of improved
efficiency in their industries.
In the Cabinet the complaints oil
the men and OF the public against
the ma anagement of the coal and rail
road industries are known TO have
received earnest expression. 1t Ia
also known that the President him
self has been far from taking tbs
position that capital must be rs
sumed to be always right and that
labor must be assumed to be Away
wrong. It Is noticed that at the ap,
parent cost OF a considerable decline
in campaign contributions to this
years Congressional elections the
President and the Administration
have steadily resisted all efforts to
make the Government into partisa n
agency for fighting and destroying
the unions.
At present the managements and
the unions are botn dissatisfied with
the Administration and are filling
Washington with aEonized com.
plants against II. The fact Is that
Washington 10 inclined toward be.
ing convinced that neither the man
agements nor the unions have
shown q proper and successful in.
terest in the working effectiveness
Of their industries. The manage.
uYents and the unions have charged
each other with being impediments
to efficiency. Washington is begin.
ming to believe them both.
In the, matter of the railroads, for
instance, the Interstate Commerce
Commission has been giving atten-
tive consideration to the charges
brought again.st the managers Of
the railroads by the National Asso-
citation of Owners of Railroad Sc
curities. These owners, representing
ments in railroads, have charged
that better management OF
freight cars and a better manage
ment Of terminal facilities would
save the railroads many hundreds
OF InllllOnb OI NNoi
The Railroad Labor Board mean
while. in Chicago. has been Obliged
to give attentive consideration TO
corresponding charges against the
unions. II has been forcefullV
charged there that the working
rules laid down by the railroad
unions have been enormous In
fluences toward increasing unneces'
sary expense and toward preventing
desirable economies and desirable
repidities in railroad operation.
II IL beginning to be thought In
Washington among men Of the high
est official standing that the Tres
ent organization Of the railroads
gives no adequate opportunity or In
centive either to the management
or to the unions for the promoting
of the greatest railroading afficincy
II is pointed out among Government
officers who are concerned with th'
country's banking system that many
Of the management Of railroads are
servants of banks rather than oi
railroads and are obliged to be rather
moro interested in the banks profit,
than in the railroads profits. II II
equally pointed out that during the
last few years the members OF the
railroad unions have rapidly tended
toward being interested in he'll
unions first and In their railroad:
afterwards.
1t is now for the first time seriously
proposed in conservative govern
mental quarters that an effort bt
made to unite the arrangements and
the unions on some cooperating
proposition which will put the rail
roads first and the banks and tat
unions down together into second
place. 1t Is pointed out that Lloyd
George ended the great British Goa
stfike Of winter before last by set
tlement which gave both the mine
managers and the miners a prospec
tive reward for cooperation, This
reward was In the shape Of an In
creased share by both sides In the
proceeds OF increased efficiencies. II
is beginning to be predicted here that
as part Of the settlement OF these
strikes there will be an effort tC
reach similar cooperation in
America.