, 1925-05-28
up OFFICIAL
GAVE GOOD TALK
MONDAY MAY Is

G. H. Sines, assistant to the vice.
president of operation of the Union
Pacific railroad, gave a splendid
talk before a large audience at the
North Star fall on Monday evening
May 18th.
A resolution was adopted which
would eliminate motor buses and
trucks as competitors with railroads.
This action followed Mr.. Sine's
talk in which he told the audience
that bus and truck competition was
becoming so acute that unless check
ed it would result in a reduction in
earnings and force. AS other i'm
portant points brought u in his
talk he stated hat he did not want
to convey the impression that the
motor trucks and bus have no place
in our transportation system. But
they should serve to supplement rail
transportation and not compete with
it.
The audience, which was composed
largely by railroad employees, adopt
eo a resolution. The resolution con-
Guided:
Be 1t Resolved, by the railroad en-
ployees assembled in this meeting
that each and every n of us shall
constitute ourselves into a commit
tee of one for the purpose of in
forming the merchants of Rawlins
whom we patronize with the facts
herein set forth, and the further
fact that the continued growth of the
motor bus and the motor truck
transportation and resultant decrease
in business handled by the railroads,
will deprive many of us of our liveli-
hood and decrease the earnings of
others, and them to the income de-
rived from our earnings, and
Be 1t Further Resolved, That each
of the organizations here represented
be requested to appoint a committee
of three for the purpose of Copper
ating with similar committees, either
in sections or as a whole, and with
authority to speak in these respects
for the respective organizations rep
resented. These representatives,
either singly or in cooperation with
other similar committees, and each
speaking for their entire membership,
to call upon the merchants and citi-
zens and various civic bodies as soon
as practicable SO hat our collective
influence may be brought to bear to
the end that the citizens and mer-
chants of Rawlins be persuaded to
give their patronage and business to
the railroads rather than to other
means of transportation.
We find a new competitor in the
transportation field patronized by
the public with a great injustice to
railroad employees and investors,
Mr.. Sines declared in his talk. This
competitor is the motor bus and mo-
tor truck.
while auto trucks and buses are
using public highways for the trans
%portation of freight and passengers
for private profit, they are seriously
depicting railroad earnings and in
creasing the cost of steam railroad
transportation to the public. So
seriously Is this competition affect
ing revenues. especially on branch
lines, that the railroads will be re-
quired to abandon n considerable
amount of such mileage II auto truck
and bus competition continues on the
present unfair basis.
In 1920 the railroads of the
United States employed ~2,022,S32
persons who received a total com
pensation of SO, 6S1,S01,19 while in
1924 they employed 1,777,391 per-
sons receiving n total compensation
Of S2.S67.564,S02, a decrease of more
than a quarter of a million employees
and $500, 900 900 in compensation.
In Rawlins the Union Pacific
System paid out last year 1907 ,911
In compensation alone to employees
in its service in this community. 1t