The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 6, 1920, Page 13

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ALBAUGH-DOVER 3 Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers Rail Workers United in Politics Demand for Plumb Plan of Government Ownership of Roads Leads All Brotherhood Campaign Issues Washington Bureau, < Nonpartisan Leader. transportation—the free- ing of the highways of commerce — are pivoted all the issues of the 1920 campaign. Railroad op- eration must respond to ‘public need, or the present shortage of cars and of railroad service will be followed by more serious paralysis. Where a few industries are now closed or closing down for lack of cars, dozens and hun- dreds will be crippled or paralyzed. Fuel supply and food supply will be starved or stopped. Life itself will be sacrificed—unless the condition of rail- road service is improved. This is the situation as viewed by traffic . experts for shippers’ associa- tions, by members of the interstate commerce commission, by senators and congressmen, by spokesmen for the railroad executives and by chiefs of the big railroad labor organizations. The writers for the financial and trade journals are alarmed over the possi- bility that the bulk of the business of the country may ‘be hurt by this one trouble—the failure of the railroads to handle the freight which must be carried. Labor is already carrying on a na- tion-wide political campaign against the members of congress who voted to restore the railroads to private op- eration. Now the 2,000,000 railroad workers are considering the best way in which to use their political power to hasten the enactment of the Plumb plan into law. They may decide to en- ter bodily into the new -political or- ganization of labor and farmers, whose primary industrial plank is public ownership and democratic operation of railroads and mines. COLVER FOR POOLING OF RAILROAD EQUIPMENT William B. Colver, member of the federal trade commission, has recently pointed out that this railroad tangle . must soon be stralghtened out if the nation is to remain strong. He has been among the first of our federal officials to recognize the need for a fair settlement. As long ago as May, in a speech in Cincinnati, he outlined 2 number of corrective measures that must be applied while the roads re- main in private hands, and at Atlantic City in July he showed the separate private operation of railroads, which had. utterly broken down in 1917, had again broken down within two months after the roads were given back to private owners in March, 1920. The fact is that the railroad looters have no adequate finances for ' the .| handling of traffie, because the proper- ‘|:ties have been high-financed to death. And the employes;, long denied 2 living wage, now insist that their demands be met. : Colver proposes that cars and loco- motives supplied by the government to “the railroads be pooled, and that the companies be penalized :éor slow serv- ice by means of a sliding scale of freight charges—the higher rate be- ing paid for the quicker delivery. “The railroad administration,” he says, “did not turn back to private ownership a lot of junk, but in fact turned back the roads in better shape than it received them. “The increase of more than a billion dollars a year in freight rates means ‘to the consuming public and to the farmers, manufacturers and mer- chants of the country an increased bill ROUND the one issue of . of five billions of dollars for which ab- solutely nothing will be received. The higher the freight rate, the less ton- nage the railroads will be required ‘to handle.to meet their earning require- ments. If the volume of freight now waiting to be handled were handled promptly by the railroads at the exist- ing rates, there would be a profitable operation and no need of a freight in- crease.” Colver toid a crowd of manufac- turers at Atlantic City that the chief business, the oldest business, the uni- versal business of the world, is the business of living. All govermnents exist to keep unbroken the procession on the highway of life. PEOPLE MUST GET NECESSITIES OF LIFE “AIongsnde the hxghway of life,” he said, “runs the broad river of com- merce, upon whose mighty tide float countless craft freighted with the fuel and the food, the clothing and the ma- terials for shelter,” as well as the pleasures and luxuries which supply the pilgrims on the highway of life. It is the theory of our laws that this great river of commerce shall be kept forever clear of artificial obstructions and that the craft which navigate it shall each enjoy the greatest possible freedom of movement consistent with the similar rights of every other craft on the stream. “It is the theory of the law that whoever has for sale anythmg which he has produced on farm, in factory, in mine or mill, shall'have free access to the river of commerce. * * * Who- ever by conspiracy, by monopoly, or unfair advantages founded on pnv1- lege, obstructs free access to the river of commerce interferes with the whole great scheme of things contrary to the public interests — contrary to the nghcs of all of us who are the pil- grims through life.” The 2,000,000 organized railroad workers of the United States feel that they are held responsible for failure of the transportation system to give free access to commerce from the farms, the factories, the mills and the mines. They feel that they will never be in a position to render first-rate service so long as they are at war with the system of private ownership and autocratic operation which now robs them of any share of the fruits of good service. They know how the service can ‘and must be improved. They know that it can be improved only through government ownership and democratic operation. They are set to make that great change in the industry, and.to create in America the | best, most progressive, most enthusi- *astlcally co-operative transportation | | service in the world. They propose to ' abolish the specxal-pnvflege interfer- |- ° ence with” the river of ' commerce, which Colver condemns. That’s the issue and the‘struggle be- | hind all’ of the talk and worry over coal supply and raw material ‘supply and car shortage this season. Tt is the issue of the right of the producers of transportatmn service to have a voice in the running of their own industry. 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