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Show RAIL CHIEFS FOR U. S. jlEBSHIP; WILL PRESS ISSUE IN CONGRESS, PLUMB DECLARES. EIGHT ! MILLION MEN SUPPORTING. Propose a Nonpolitical Fight, and Great Strike Will Be Only Last j Recourse is Plan of Railroad j Workers. Washington. The fight of the railroad rail-road workers of the L'uited States to force upon congress the acceptance of government ownership as a solution of the railroad problem is to begin at once and will be unrelenting in its intensity. Loaders of the railroad brotherhoods and organized labor generally are con- vinced that their plan for the govern- nienl to buy Hie railroads and nation- 1 ali.e them on a profit-sharing basis with the workers is the most equitable equit-able proposal that has been advanced. and they are girding for a struggle : with I be capitalistic issue before con- j gross which promises to be more sen- I sational than the fight for the Adam- I ion eight-hours-work-for-ten-hours-pay law in 1917. ; 'The brotherhood leaders who held . the watch on congress over the Adam- j son law, with a nation-wide strike club i dangling over its head, are here again, ! and they served notice on the president, presi-dent, congress and the general public Saturday, following introduction of the government ownership bill known as the "Plumb plan," that their forces are stronger than ever and can be marshaled into action at a word of command. The railroad leaders do not want to threaten a general railroad strike on this issue, they say. That is a last resort which they do not believe it will be necessary to use. They believe that the merits of their proposal to settle railroad difficulties on all sides-will sides-will be accepted by the people of the country, who will force congress to pass their bill. Gleu E. Plumb, counsel for the Plumb plan league, which is organized to push 'the government ownership hill, has arrived in 'Washington and will appear before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce on behalf of the measure. A. B. Garret-son, Garret-son, who directed the fight for the Adamson bill, and who is vice president presi-dent of the league, is also scheduled to appear, but may not be able to do so because of illness. |