Show LEE CHALLENGED BY DISPATCHERS I Salt Lake and Pocatello Trainmen Wire ire Protest to Charges i T ent Twenty one one train dispatchers employed employed em- em In Salt Lake and fifteen treen employed employed em em- in Pocatello Ida e telegraphed a vigorous denial to Franklin Frank Frank- lin un K Lane secretary of oC the Interior of or the char charge e of being train delayers elaYer made mate b by W. W G G. G Lee head of the Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood Broth Broth- of Railway Trainmen The Tho message representing the one ty-one dispatchers working in Salt Sal Sal Lake was signed b by W. W 0 B g Borden Dorden chief dispatcher of oC th the Salt Sal Lake Route L L. E. E Halbert chief of the Oregon Short Shor Line and C. C I H E Leverich chief of ot the Denver Den Rio Grande In the telegram the tho dispatchers state that the they have read rend with wih amazement anu that lint train have been delaying trains since government gO control cc The he lie Pocatello men wired We e desire to rebuke and brand as a malicious falsehood absolutely without foundation Ion tion ton the statement of W. W G. G Lee before before be be- fore the wage commission that flint train trin dispatchers are ar now or have ha c at a an any previous lous time maliciously delayed traffic I lie fic fe on railroads of or the thc United States We Ve authorize you OU to chalen challenge o Lees Lee's statement compel him to produce proof or retract the statement which beyond a doubt wan was made to create public s sympathy for or the cause he ho represents at the expense of Innocent and 10 loyal al parties partes Such statements said Mr Ir Halbert arc are fictitious on the face ace of ot them and amid ano anyone e who has had an any practical e ex experience CX- CX with railroads knows It The work of a dispatcher is to get trains over the road and the tho fact of ot tho the mattel matter matter mat mat- ter tel is 18 that there has been less dela delay on the roads through the country this year car than for several years ears past Last winter the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- was blocked several times s b by snow mow and similar conditions prevailed on all al western estern roads This of at cour course e eus was us us direct directly due to the heavy havy weather ue conditions This year ear with wih tow few bad bat storms storms' and fine weather the tho rule time the themen I men who handle tho the orders that get jet traffic over o the road rond have been playing in great luck and the trains have 0 had less legs trouble keeping on time than fo for years ears pa past L Loyalty on the time part of ot the lie dispatchers dispatch dispatch- dispatchers ers in Salt Sal Lake during operation b bYthe by bythe the national government o Is promised in the message sent ent to Secretary Lane LanO yesterday esterd |