Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 219, 23 July 1920 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND. IND.. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1920.

CAR SHORTAGE CHOKES ALL ARTERIES OF IRADE-MEMPLOYMENT MAY FOLLOW

i Tbs railroad lines forming th cou: Jtry'a transportation system may to likened to the arteries of tie human body. Juet as the body must depend for sustenance on the healthy flow of blood through the arteries, so the prosperity of the cation is dependent upon the circulation the railroad gtre to the goods which are the nation's wealth. For many months now the railroads of the tnfeldle west, the north.west and the east have given at best & sluggish 'circulation. In places there lias been oa numerous occasions no circulation at all: there are constant

interruptions; acute congestion obtains

where the flow should be functioning perfectly. The average- citizen may say of rail ongestion, the lack of cars and the

perilous coal shortage; "What business Is that of nalne?" Tet the aver

age cltlsen must pay as high a price

for the congestion that ties up and re

traces his country's wealth as he would pay for congestion rn his own body. All dtixens must awake new to the gravity of the situation or pay next

winter in idle factories, scarcity of food said unemployment. Who Is to Blame for Crisis? "Who is to blame? In the order of etrfpaMlJty, the- interstate eommeree commission, the railroad operators, the railway labor board and, lastly, labor Itself. The Interstate commerce commission In oponion of business men interviewed in many states, appears to lack Initiative and moral courage. It has permitted the carriers to wipe their feet on order after order which

the commission has Issued to relieve the strain on Industry and commerce

by relieving the shortage of cars, thus

renewing the production of coal and the distribution of merchandise. The commission has power to enforce its

orders; it has not-chosen to do so. The commission knows of the short

age of railroad equipment In actual

property. It knows the carriers must

be placed on a paying basis, and to

accomplish this rates mu6t be Increas

ed. Yet the commission is said every

where to be fiddling along with the rate question, waiting, it would appear.

for the time when the six months

guaranty offered the carriers "on their

return to private ownership shall

elapse. The millions of dollars' the carriers are receiving under this guar; anty come out of the taxpayers' pockets. Actually, the taxpayers are- payins the shippers' bills, and neither gets value, received. Carriers Fall to Co-Operate. Next, the carriers themselves. By the words of their own officials they have cot co-operated with one? another. Nor does industry believe they are putting up a real fight for better transportation. The railroad brotherhood seems to have many of them on the hip. The principal lines serving the middle west and the east are congested primarily because of lack of man power. What has been done to strengthen this degenerated condition

in which the carriers are now hobbling along projects an Illuminating

picture of many a railroad executive s attitude.

The strike of outlaw switchmen left the roads in Illinois with but a small percentage of employes. These belonged to the brotherhood which had united with the carriers In fighting the

outlaw union. The carriers wee confronted with the difficult problem of replacing the switchmen they had lost

by the strike. The brotherhood was

concerned with the proposition of

keeping replacements within the ranks

of or friendly to the regular union. The brotherhood took up the matter of replacements with the railroad , presidents' organisation. The union waa to. see that he carriers got men for switching. Temporarily the carrier had been trying to oparate with anybody who would work for them; officials and clerks were working in the yards. There was a great scarcity of men. " . Still Walt for Brotherhood. Ever since then the carriers have been waiting for the brotherhood to make' good. The brotherhood has not done so. It never will, observers say, so long as the carriers procrastinate and do little but privately "point with alarm" when action is required. Meanwhile with small crews in the yards the railroads have been trying after a fashion of their own to keep the nation's wealth in circulation. They will ask you "How can we get switchmen at the pay we can give them? They're all going Into other lines." To a large extent that is true, and that is where the culpability of the federal administration and the railway labor- board comes in, the president for his failure

to appoint the board until virtually forced to do bo, the board for delay when a fair award was needed at once to keep the switchmen where they belonged on the railroads. Despite the fact that it is next to im

possible to hold rail employes while other industrv is blddinr for them. th

railroads did not put up the real scrap

iney- flaoma to get more men, industry charges.

LABOR FAVORS SHORT SCHOOL, CITY MANAGER

Plans for a fight on the 10-month school term and passing of a resolution favoring a city manager for Richmond municipal affairs, were the problems acted upon at the meeting

of the Central labor' council in the

Eagles' Hall Thursday night. The resolution drawn up and passed by the labor body calls upon city

council to petition the governor of the

state for a referendum for a city man

ager for Richmond. A unanimous

vote pased the resolution.

Plans for a "finish" fight ajralnst

the 10-month school term are to be outlined at the next meeting of the organization. The. labor council had a petition out during May and more

than a thousand signatures were af

fixed to the petition condemning the

extra montn or scnooi.

Roy Steel and A. J. Davis were elected delegates to the annual state

federation of labor to be held at Evansvllle, August 25.

SAIL FOR JAPAN -800M MARIETTA. O., July S3. B. P. Strecker and wife, their daughter. Miss Marjoria Strackar, aad Miss

Carol Strackar, wiU sail Aug. 31, for Japan, where they will attd the

world Sunday School convenivn. RUNAWAY GIRL JOINS SHOW

MIDDLETOWN, O., July 23- John Shaier asked police Wednesday to lo

cate his daughter, Dorothy, 17, who.

he says, ran away Sunday night to

join a show at Lexington, Ky.

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