Show RAILROADS WANT MORE TIKE Four years ago congress passed a law requiring all railroads in the United States to equip their cars with automatic auto-matic couplers and power brakes At the headquarters of the various railroad rail-road brotherhoods which are in Peoria Ill it is said that none of the railroads has fully complied with the requirements require-ments of the statute Moreover they are now asking more time in which to comply with the provisions of the law and for this purpose the railroads will have a hearing before the interstate commerce commission on December 1 Representatives of the various railroad brotherhoods will be there What the commission will do of course no one can say though it is pretty sure that it will not insist on anything unreasonable on the part of the railroads but it should insist on a compliance with the requirements of the law within a reasonable time and the commission should not let the railroads rail-roads say what constitutes a reasonable reason-able time They are more or less hostile hos-tile to the innovation and will delay inaugurating in-augurating it as long as possible It means a large expense also and this they have to consider But they appear to have had no intention of complying with the statute The statute should either be enforced or repealed and the sentiment of the people will be that it should be enforced and not repealed The hearing before the interstate commerce com-merce committee will be an important one and the result of it awaited with I interest I |