Show P 1 i 1 i 1 w t WILsoN ASKS WAGES r TRUCE i TO EeL I N ES r 10 FIX im AY FOR FOB RAIL S 0 MEN Basic Wage e Questions ns Should Be Deferred U Until Era of High Hi h- h Prices es Has H s 's Gone Says N Note ate to Public B By Frew w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Aug 25 Post Post Postponement of or the settlement of wage c demands until normal conditions condi condi- co conditions di- di are restored were announced today by president P Wilson as tb the policy which the administration wi will l pursue in dealing with such questions questions ques ques- ues ions particularly those affecting railroad workers The President announced also that it was wag neither wise nor feasible at this time when the roost most m. m st important t q question tion b t re the is country w s' s a n. return re- re re return turn to normal price level lc to titter ll 1 to increase freight rates rates to provide funds for higher wages wag We ought to postpone qu questions of ot this sort lort until we have the opportunity for tor certain calculations as to the relations relations rela rela- between wages and the cost of ot living the President nt declared In a statement to the public explaining his s decisions as to wages Appal I l for Truce f It Is s the thc duty duly of oC every ci en to Insist upon a a. truce in such auch contests until Intelligent 2 settlements can be be made and made by peace and effective common counsel el 1 appeal to my fellow fel tel fellow tellow low citizens of o every overy employment to operate co In Insl Insisting ting Ung upon and amI maintainInG maintaining maintaining main main- such a truce Mr Ir Wilson's Wilsons statement was as issued In connection with the decision of ot himself and Director General Mines JUnes on demands b by railroad for tor fora a a. 25 5 5 per cent advance ance in wages wage but the thc general policy pronounced covers ers ul also UIKO o the wa wags wage e demands of r other hundreds hun hun- hun hundreds n- n of ot thousands of ot railroad workers worker work work- er ers which Ire Jre pending before tine the dl- dl erector general or about to bo po presented It Is 18 to be expected that other unions trying to obtain more pay will bo be asked as the l to play pIa their part with other citizens in reducing the cost of ot living by foregoing a Q tern tern- advantage e which would add to tran transportation costs The decision of oC the President and the thc director general was announced to to toa o a n. committee of C one ono hundred representing represent represent- tog ing the sho men In reply to their demands for tor ii 1 Yv 23 per cent Increase the asked to accept an un adjustment of ot huir pa pay to the ba basis ls of ot t ten n hours pay pay- for Cor Or el eight ht hours hour work which the they contended contend contend- ed was given other es and de denied denied denied de- de nied them when the Adamson law be became became became be- be came effective G Get et t Four Tour C Cent ut RIe Rabe e This means an advance anc of ot the basic pay from rom GS cents to 72 cents an hour whereas J an increase of ot 17 cents cent to Si 55 cents an hour w was s demanded Acting President Jewell Jowell of ot the railway rail raU- wa way department of oC the American American Amer Amer- Jc ican n Federation of ot Labor and his ad advisers advisers ad- ad ll- ll said ahl th they y would communicate the tho decision to the union locals for tor acceptance or 01 rejection A strike vote voto completed yesterday I but not yet et tabulated was wag on tho the question whether the tho men should quit work to enforce consideration of ot their demands b by the railroad administration tion Int Instead tead of r b by a con congressional commission as Clr first t sUG suggested As this plan was a abandoned tho the i 1 vote ote whatever the result Is Ie the tive and the now have hae m au entirely new nea qU question before them a Statement Dt to In JI Jon Hen n The President In his statement to the representatives of or the said Bald i iI i iI I request th that t you 1 0 lay this critical I matter before the men In a no new nW light Tho The ote vote the they have taken W. W was IS upon j the qUe question whether the they should In Insist sst upon the wage aEe Increase the they Wt o n asking or consent to the submission of of at I their claims to a new tribunal to bo be corr constituted b by new now l gl That question no longer cr has Jias S I any lifo life tf In IA I It It Such Ic legislation is not now In contemplation I request that hat you ou ask I the tho men to reconsider the a whole hole Illa matter tr trIn In view Io of or tho the following consert- consert their thought- thought t tons ons to which I ILsk hsk Continued on n 11 Para 2 3 r ASKS TRUCE IN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES Continued from pago page 1 ful tUI UI a attention as ns Americans and und which hc I hope hepe that you ou will win lay b before r re them themas as l ts 1 l' l here state them We Wo arc faco tco to t face faco co with a situation situation situa situa- tion which is more moro likely to the tho happiness and nd prosperity an 1 oven even the tho th life of oC our people than the th th war Il itself Wo Vo 0 have havo now got ot to do 10 nothing noth luing lu- lu ing InS loss lose than bring our oth anti and our labor of or every ery kind Lack to a amal n rI r- r mal al basis after tho the greatest upheaval a I known II in history and the thc winter JI I ahead of or of ofus us may bring suffering Tn- Tn I greater than tn thi war ivar br br t us If IC we blunder r or r r fail fait in t th the tY Y p ic f fn A An n admirable spirit of oC self sacrifice of oC devotion and of community action DIton while h guided guide and inspired us t to o fighting was wnM on op 11 Ve c e shall l lall nil all these now and anil I vj tJ them In I 1 it degree if ir W we wc o a-o to act aCI m- m hush the first ta tasks ls of ot peace pe fhe They aro ar more difficult thin the tasks of Ma n war more more complex less s SI and blood and require mor s patience and sobriety We Wc e mobilized our manpower 0 for Cor the fighting let Jet us now mobilize our brain brainpower brainpower power Po and our con conscience for Cor the re re- re construction If Ie we wc fall fail all It will ill mean national I disaster Tin primary fir step is to inc HC production and facilitate tion MI i 1 as LS to m make ll e up Ut for or the tho de destruction Je- Je wrought by b tho the war the tho ter- ter rildo scarcities it created and o as us rello o people of soon as po possible our the cruel burden of or high prices The he railways s are arc at tho c center of oC this whole process Refer r in th Ii II Ir C. 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I light Tho government go has taken ur with all aU its energy the thc task of or bringing tho thuc profiteer to book bool making the lie of necessaries it r the country u at lowered si stimulating In ing production and facilitating dietri- dietri hulton and very vcr favorable r results ur are arc already beginning to Lo appear There Thre Is lla reason on to entertain the confident that substantial will rc result ull and anu result in increasing measure A general increase In tho the levels volS' of wages would ld check and ml might ht tl defeat f at fatall all this at Its Us cr very beginning Such increases int would Inevitably Ino ly rai raise e. e not lower tho ho co cost l of ln lI living Manufacturers ers and producers of or e er every r sort would have havo innumerable additional pretexts for increasing profits tnt and all aU efforts to dl discover er co and defeat profiteering would bo be hopelessly confused I 1 believe that the present efforts to reduce reduce- the costs of or ln Ji living will b bs bo be s successful if IC no new elements clements or difficulty dif are thrown in the wa way itay nail and au I 1 t ti th TO 1 l l v U I J II V J I I ase in the service of oC theto tho the railways to assist not obstruct It lt Is much more in their Interest to todo todo todo do this than to insist upon wage go In- In which will undo everything c tho the government o attempts Thc They are arc aregood Joo good Americans AmericanS' along alonS' with the r rest st st sto o of us us and anti ma may I am sure be counted on to see sec the point p t tIt It It goes without saying that If It our efforts to bring the cost of lIvin living down should fall Call after aCter wo we have had aa time enough to establish either cither success or failure it will of course bo necessary to accept the higher costs of oC living as asa asa asa a permanent basis of or adjustment nn and railway wages should be b be readjusted along with wilh the thic rest Alt All that I am now now- urging is Is that wo we should not bo be guilty of tho the Inexcusable Inex inconsistency of or making general gen cen- eral ral in wages on the assumption assumption tion that the pre present ent cost of or living will be ho permanent at the very cr time that wo are arc trying with great confidence confidence coni- coni dence donee to reduce the cost of living lI and andare andro tire are able ablo to Sn say a that It actually 1 Is beginning to fall Sense of or I 1 am arc aware that railroad employee have havo a sense Bonse of insecurity as to tho the future of oC tho the roads and have ha man many misgivings misgivings mis mis- givings as to whether their thelI interests will bo properly sae safeguarded when tho the present form of federal control has come to nn an end No doubt It If Is In part this sense of oC uncertainty that prompts them to Insist in insist insist In- In that their wa wage c Interests be adjusted ad adjusted ad- ad now noi rather than under conditions conditions condi condi- I which they din cun not certainly foresee But I do not think that their uneasiness ij is is isell well ell grounded g I 1 anticipate that legislation dealing dealing deal deat- ing in with the future futuro of the railroads will in explicit terms afford aCCord adequate protection for the Interests ts of oC tho the em em- of tho the railroads but hut quite apart from that it is clear that no legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion can cnn make the railways other than what they the arc are a great public Interest and it is not likely that the President of tho the United States whether In possession possession pos pos- session and control of the railroads or not will lack opportunity or persuasive force to Influence tho decision of questions questions ques ques- arising between the managers of the railroads and the thc railway 1 em em- The employee ma may rest assured that during durins my m In term terra of office whether I am in actual po possession of the railroads railroads rail rail- roads or OI not I 1 shall shaH not fall fail to exert the tho full influence nce of oC the thc executive to sec see that justice is done themI them I r believe therefore that thc they ma may be bo Justified in the confidence that h hearty art operation co with the government government govern govern- ment now in lit Its efforts to the cost of oC living will b by no means be prejudicial to their own Interests but butwill will on the contrary prepare the way wa for more favorable and satisfactory re relations relations relations re- re lations In the thc future I 1 confidently count on their cooperation cooperation op co in this time of national test and anti crisis S |