Show Disparities and Remedies IN I N th the disputes over OYer wages before the railroad labor Jabor laborI I board hoard the tho brotherhood officials point out that the tho disparity of wages is is ascribable to the fact that in 1913 a n large laIcie part pare of railway labor particularly in tho the lower grades was underpaid even according to prewar standards standards stand stand- ards and that while whilo some groups in their demands were tr trying ing to jump higher hig-ber than high cost of living others were lagging a n lap or two behind Says a brotherhood leader Can you blame a going homo home with in his pocket for his days day's work for getting sore when hen he seeS ses sees a carrying home 8 for the tho same salUe hours of f work It was the pervading grouch over this sort of injustice that t made the yardmen's strike spread as it iV did despite the ilia efforts of the brotherhoods to combat it The railroad labor board has a big task on its hands to fo satisfy the demands of the different groups of railway workmen and put wages on a 3 piano plane where n n g nT I C u V J Ak A 4 A sA UA I V l nV l V VJ J V VU j. j U L 1 J J i Uv I ll V ALA LL spite of the abnormal w wakes wages s paid in other industries yet if the they will address themselves diligently and in intelligently intelligently in- in to the task it is more reasonable le to expect a a. satisfactory adjustment in in that way than thanin in any other way 3 B No one can blame the for getting sore at the in the caso case so graphically described but neither can the an blame blamo the public for forg forgetting g getting sore when they see the transportation system of the country tied up commerce halted industry stagnated stagnated stagnated stag stag- property and lives Ji destroyed and d general genel havoc produced because the tile gets moro morn pay than the tho Sugar to be traced to consumer News consumer News item Well that's about all some of f us ns get a get a trace r rI I I I Fur prices decline Market decline Market report And yet yei the they call this a 3 backward ackward season One of the two great parties if not both is likely to make Wilson Tilson That's That's All its 1920 slogan Have Ha these people who arc are suggesting electricity as asa asa asa a coal substitute ever eYer watched a meter Shortage may be the thc high cost cause but with some I r folks the high cost has bus caused the shortage The army has quit but the naval commanders are tre still peppering away Now if somebody would start a work to work to drive e. arl |