The New York herald., 1922-10-14
RAIL LABOR MUST
F0REGO STRIKES
Vice-President of Pennsylva-
mia Calls 1t Only Way to
StabilizatiOn.
ISSUE rs WITH PUBLIC
Lee Wishes to See Return Of
High Ambition Among
the Ranks.

CLEVELAND Oct. 10 (Associated Press).
Railway labor must surrender the
right 10 strike IL the rail- situation is
TO be stabilized and THE rights of the
people to uninterrupted transportation
service permanently secured Elisha j.
Lee. vice-president OF the Pennsylvania
lines. declared in an address tonight
at the annual banquet of the American
Mining Congress.
IT am not prepared to say, at the
present ime," Mr.. Lee said, that we
should go TO the length of absolutely
forbiddng railroad strikes by specific
statutes Nor would l attempt other
wise 10 lay down any particular method
bv which acceptance OF this basically
correct principle may be brought about.
II am only sure of one thing. and that
is that IL must be accomplished in some
way if the railroad labor situation Is to
be stabilized
Mr. Lee approved a recent statement
OF w. G.. Lee, president OF the Brother
hood Of Railroad Tralnmen, that "this
whole business of railway labor got too
big for any one man or few men to
handle. II is loaded with dynamite for
the country as well as for ourselves and
the executives
Railroad management has the So
cial duty OF effecting revival among
working forces of the spirit OF ambition,
enterprise and social progress" Mr.. Lee
declared. Il wish we could return to
the condition which existed In the days
when every man entering the ranks
thought that he had a chance to become
president OF his company and that he
should work for that Job.
/ mo greater harm has heen done than
has resulted from the efforts of some
labor organizations in attempting to
create gulf between the working
classes and the managing classes, and
In teaching the worker that his hope
lies not in improving himself, but In
exacting the highest pay that he can
possibly obtain for the least work he
can compel his employer to accept"
Mr.. Lee declared that one OF the pub
Hes rights was transportation at a
reasonable cost, and that this entailed
on the part OF railway management re-
sistance against expensive wage scales
and unrea sonable working conditions" 7"
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," he con-
tinued. They should be fairly paid,
we'll paid. and working conditions should
be compatible with proper rest recrea-
tion and home life. II Is only waste
that / am condemning."
Governmental ''paternalism' was
Identified with Socialism by Ira Il.
Robinson. a former Chief Justice in
West Virginia and a member of the
War Minerals Relief Commission, who
declared he saw an appalling drift in
the direction OF both in the United
States.
The closing session of the congress
included addresses by G.. A. O'Roilly.
vice-p president Of the Irving National
Bank. New York. and r. w. Fem,
Washington. of the National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce.
Delegates passed n resolution declar-
ing that laws should be made and en-
forced BY all the power of the Govern
ment that shall forever strip labor or
ganizations as well as employers Of the
ability TO interfere with the production
and distribution of the necessities of
life"