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Show PLAN TO REPEAT ATTACK OF 1916 Railway Employees' Chiefs. Appear Ap-pear at Washington With New Threat to Congress. ASK $1,000,000,000 MORE FAY. Alto Demand Nationalization of Othti Industries, Following Example of Russian Soviet. WnsliliiRtoti. It Ib Just three yeiira Rlnco tlio four loailurs of tliu railway brotherhoods, ImvliiR refused mljltru-tlnn mljltru-tlnn of their (leiimndfl, snt In tliu nailery nai-lery of tho United Stntos Sulfite and held their wntehea on tho Heniitorn while the. tiiemaruhte voto was belnt taken on the Adnnison Law that gave them $G0,000,(KX) iiddltlotml worcb u your. When (he voto wus counted and announced the four Inhnr chiefs rushed out to. the, lel('iniili tifllce nnd with, drew tho order for u nutlonwldo ittrlke. That such a scene ltmy bti agnn en-' acted on n much greater scnle In Indicated Indi-cated by the NtnrtlliiK developments at the nation'ii enpttnl In the pant few day. Now the 350,000 men In tho' brotherhood havo been Joined by inoro than a million other rnllroiid worker shopmen, trackmen, tele-Krnphers, tele-Krnphers, clerks, glutton agents and the demands are ninny tlmrs wlist they weru )ntts years hro. A Thousand Million Dollnrs. On top of a thoiiKuiid million dollars of added wanes itrnnted by the Gov-eminent Gov-eminent In the past yenr and a half, the ullled workers aro asking for another an-other Incn-uve of a thousand million dollars. , Hut more than this, this great body of rnllroiid eiaploycca tins served' an iillliiiiitiini on the noverniiieut tlmi'itll the railroads of the country must he taken nwny from their, owners and turned over to the emplo)euH to b operated op-erated by them on a oominuiilitlc profit slinrlns I'I'ili. ' ' The plnn Is oh ilnrlnc ns any om-reived om-reived by tho Itnliiti ltolsbovlsts, and behind It Is (lie threat of n natlohrwjdtt strike, with the tenders of the mea sit-tltiK sit-tltiK In the Semite gulhiry, watvhes In hand, coiintlnK thn vote. To Tie Up All Transportation "We will tto up tho railroads so that they will never run ugaln If wo do not Ret what wo want," announced ono of the Inhnr spokesmen, stnndlpg within a stone's throw of thn Capitol, slid this iiinnzlng announcement, like ,nn ultimatum from n leuderyof tliw Uw slnn Hovlnt, was Instantly flashed ovF the teleernpli wlr- in overy t'irt or thn country. Sltn-c the llrst rtrotliorlicn.il liomli-shell liomli-shell exploded In 'ViiHliliitfton at .the lid of .Inly, thn fact has truked out that tliu brotherhood!, nro uatherlni; s propncuiida fund of $1U.IXK,U00 for nn Inleii-lvc drive on CotiKress, Tliree million dollurs, It Im announced, bus nWfciidy been rnllected from the mem-l-rs of the unions. This will tm used la cnmpulKiL work In the CongrcxHlnnnt districts,' with the purpose of enlist. I ni; the voles of the members of' Congress, nr of defeating them for re-election If thoy do not vote ns the brotherhoods dictate. Money wll also' be lavishly npent. It In Hinted, In send Ing speakers throughout the country to stir up the oiithuHliisin of orKunlied labor fur the brotherhood i1hm of coimnmilstlr rnltroud operHtlnu. "Natlonalltlna" All Industry "If we don't get what we want out of tills Conuress wn will put this Congress out und put nnother one In Hint will glvn us whnt we wnnt," Is the matter-of-fact announcement of the central propaganda otllre of the brotherhoods In Washington. Hack of the Immediate purpoie to gain control of tho railroads In an oven deeper scheme to gain control of all great Industries, tailing them from their owners and putting iliem under the direct management of tho organized organiz-ed workers, as has been done In Hub-sin, Hub-sin, nnd as they are attempting to do In Germany and Austria. The reports of thn United Suites Itallroad administration show that the tJovernment, since It took over the roads In December, 1017, has Increused railroad wages by considerably more than a thousand million dollars, and about $KOO,000,000 n year Is being taken tak-en out of the National treasury to meet the deficit caused by the gteat Increuse In luhor cost. Big Wane Increases. Tho principal advance In wages have been: To shopmen, $300,000,000; to unskilled labor, .f 2'.'5,()00,(KK) ; to tho train brotherhoods, $00,000,000; to clerks, $15,000,000; to telegraph and station agents, $100,000,W)0; to miscellaneous mis-cellaneous classes, $110,000,000, All of these groups are now demanding demand-ing nddltlonul Increases of from iio to 00 per cent When the Government took control of the roads the average earnings of nil rnllroiid "workers, Including In-cluding severul hundred thousand unskilled un-skilled workers, was $1,000 a year. The verage Is now more than $1,800 nnd the new demands would raise It to $2,000. |