The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-07

word of practical effort to help the
workers has been spoken"
| While the workers are walking
the streets, President Harding
calls a conference. He app ears
His heart is wrung with sympathy
! He urges a hasty solution of the
problem, urges the raul 'oalS t.
provide jobs for the men. He
makes a beautiful speech. But il
is Of little avail. Thus in sub
stance, Mr.. Fechner characterized
the work of the President.
The meat of the matter was cX-
pressed in the last paragraph ut
tered by Harding when he said
while | nope that you may DC
able to devise a means for a quick
settlement, | warl you that you
must not contemplate the eNpendi-
ture of a single dollar CT the pub
lie funds"
And yet the very next day, Pres
dent Harding asked that S5Hn,-
100000 more be appropriat I'd for
the relief of the railroads.
Last Saturday, Hard % was
quoted as saying, acc) ''l;rg to NJ
Fechner that he wo i'd use all his
resources to compel the shopmcn
to accept the decision of the TAIL
roads. But he did rot say that
he would compel Tic managers of
the railroads to live up to deci-
>ions they did not lac The
packed audience applauded gener-
c ly.a
The railroad nj =! a@"r, re
lr ught to The VIII = House. NJ
i inner sand, to di; uSs matters
rne presidents ana managers OF
thu railroads have din Will
t ding But no wore is allowed
to the re JresentatiVs5 Of the p
| o. 600 workers.
thereafter, Mr.. Fechner oe-
clared amid the applause that
wildly greeted him, "wc will pu
our trust in our own organization
in which I'VE hope to realize oul
dreams for the future"
W henthe " orld War broke out
the men that went overseas tC
make the world safe for demo-
cracy, the speaker continued, were
not aware that they We leaving
behind them groups O. indusn la
Kaisers more dangerous to oul
country than the Gcg!u;.r Kaisel
ever thought of being
We are not going to permit the
] l.. tnNs ,,h h.
World War to be so soon forgot.
ten. We are not at Gethsemane
We are going to fight for indus
trial freedom.
was glad to read in the news
papers today denial by Chairman
Hooper of the Labor board that he
had said that the shopmen were
"outlawed". 1t would seem cleal
? by the action of the Labor boarc
that there was a deliberate at
tempt to divide the ranks of the
railway men. We found the boarc
beginning to segregate the work
ers. Instead of making wage de
cisions as a whole we find then
cutting the wages of one grour
and then another. The BoarC
had suddenly discovered tha'
there was no need of cutting The
the wages of the supervisory
forces of the railroads. | dom
believe any large number of the
supervisory force has been fooled
by this action of the Labor board
Then there is the failure to cu
the wages of the transportation
brotherhoods. 1t looks to us like
a deliberate attempt to whip on,
branch of the railroad workers a
time. 1t is a matter of grea
regret that the railroad worker
of the country are not in ONT
great group. The transportation
workers realize that their turn il
coming in short time. In know
that they wish they were shoulde
to shoulder with the shopmen il
this fight. We are going to see j
democracy or autocracy of indus
try is going to prevail.
Another serious phase of thu
situation has been the deliberat,
attempt to place the farming in
terests of the country agains
those of the wage earners of tn,
cities and towns. Propaganda
has been flourishing for year
whic hWould pit the falme
against the man who works in tn,
mills, shops and offices. The tim,
has come when the farmer is NJ
longer being fooled The farme
is beginning to realize that he j.
a part of a great labor group. W,
are making real progress in GU
| understanding with the farmers
We are overcoming the agencie.
used to keep US apart.
After the war came a deliberate
attempt to smash union labor
Propaganda was spread with al
appeal to wartime hysteria.
was made plain tht the principles
Of the Americn government were ;
part of the American shop-o
open shop management. But in
dustrial autocracy found that i
could not smash unionism if the
great railroad organizations con
tinued to function. The Fedora
ton of Protestant Churches pub
Iished a report of its investigation.
Of the open shop management OF
the steel industry which is one Of
the greatest indictments Of Mr.
J Cary and his open shop plan evel
published. 1t is a true and unbias.
ed report of actual conditions a.
they exist under the open shop
When the War Labor boarC
headed by EX.-President Taft ano
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