The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-29
White House Today,
However, Insists That
He Would Not Think
of Using That Power
Only In Case of Great
Emergency

AAAAOA SOAANy
Washington. Aug. 29.-(By the AS
sociated Press s)--President Harding
still believes Congress should grant
him immediate authority to take over
the railroads and mining properties of
the country; it was said this after
noon at the White House, but he has
assured congressional spokesmen that
only the grimmest public necessity
would move him to exercise such
powers, if granted. If Congress indi-
Gates an unwillingness to enact the
legislation necessary, the Presiden.
does not intend to push his opinion
or to make any formal public demand
for such powers, it was said, the
official adding that he does. not believe
there is any present necessity for ac-
tion under such grant.
Mr.. Cradle announced he was tele-
graphing President Harding and Sena-
tor Cummins, one of the authors of
the transportation act, today, asking
them to present to congress an amend
ment to the act that would make it
mandatory upon the Labor Board to
enunciate the principle of the living
wage
The Board in its ruling on Mr..
Lauck's request said it could not GO
beyond the transportation act which
prescribed the establishment of Just
and reasonable wages"
The Boards ruling was announced
by Chairman Hooper who said:
ION the motion submitted yester-
day on behalf of the railway employees
the Board announces as follows:
"1t is superfluous for the board to
announce in advance the principle or
theory on which it will fix wages in
the pending dispute. 1t may be as
sumed by the parties in this case that
the Board will give full consideration
to every circumstance set forth for
its guidance, but it will not go beyond
that.
1.-The transportation act requires
the Board to establish wages that are
Just and reasonable"
at is within the province of the
parties herein to make such conten-
tions as they may respectively see fit
as TO what will constitute just and
reasonable wage. If the wage the
maintenance of way organization finds
the living wage should be demon
strated to be a Just and reasonable
wage" the Board will adopt it; other
wise it would not.
at has no power to enlarge the
right of either party to present to the
Board its conception of what consti-
tutes a quiable wage not provided by
the laws
Review Recent Conference
Cleveland, Aug. 29.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. )-One of the things to
be considered by the Big Five brother
hoods of railway employees unions
meeting here today will be the prog
ress of the recent conference in New
York with representatives of the rail
roads in their efforts to bring about
settlement of the shopmens strike.
A complete review of these proceed
ings will be brought before the con-
ference and a report of it sent to the
several
which. it is stated, will be considered,
is the compilation of the vote taken
before the strike of the shopmen went
into effect This vote, brotherhood
leaders claim, will show that the ma
iority of the men who remained at
work voted to strike and therefore
are not entitled to seniority rights ov-
er those who actually quit. Without
these votes the necessary two-thirds
vote to bring about strike could not
have been had, it was said.
c. B A. Moves Train
Roodhouse, ILL.,, Aug. 29.-(By the
Associated Press)-After promising
trainmen who had quit work last
Friday that he would give them "ev-
erything but the railroad Vice-Pres-
ident A. p. Titus, of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad Company, at 1880
o'clock this morning had the salts
faction of seeing the first train in
sixty hours leave Roodhouse bearing
two passengers to st. Louis. 1t came
through from Jacksonville.
Explosions at DanVille
Danville, ILL.,, Aug. pa series of
explosions early this morning shat
tered windows and demolished long
strips OF yard trackage in the shops
of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
railroad here. 1t is believed an at
tempt was made to destroy the entire
shops. One bomb had been planted
near the main entrance to the yard.