Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-28 | Page 5 | Public Interest Crux is Problem

KUBLIC INTEREST CRUX 15 PROBLEM Railway Magnates and Brotherhood Chiefs Dis- ! cuss Adamson Law. 1 1 PHIUVrH)T,HHIA, Jan. 27. Leading 'j repreHen tat Ives of the railways of th I country nnd of the Lrainmen'B ornaniza-j ornaniza-j tlona .Mjioko hire tonight before the I .American Academy of Poll t leal and Bo-i Bo-i clal Kctence and rvlewM the sltuatlona I l.a1 1 PR- up to and Biibwiuent to the I by eonferess of thr, A'Jainson law, the oonMllutlonality of -which will be de-cirl?d de-cirl?d by the United Ktatea supreme court. t, William C. Adamson, chairman of tho J holme committee on Interstate and for-I for-I ekn commerce, author of the law, pre- 1Hid.l. K runic Trumbull, chairman of the ra.ll-tvav ra.ll-tvav executives' advisory committee, and ;ilha l-e of New York dlNCii.ui the prnl.lein from the viewpoint of the rull-roKdtt, rull-roKdtt, and W. i. J-.ee, president of the iroiherli'iod of R;U1 way J' rain men, and Wiirrm H. Stone of the Urol her hood of I-oj'iotlve Knuinoers presented the sub-hh sub-hh broadly represent liiff the views the 400, Oou railway workers who ore niembera of the "Hlfr Four" brotherhoods. brother-hoods. Halnbrtdge Colby of New York filho wpoke. Ansertlnjr that the crux of the railway labor problem Is the public Interest In It.. Mr. Trumbull said tiiat "any ad judication judi-cation of tho present controversy which leaves out the public Interest -la bound to prove, unftiilHfactory." "It Ik not unnatural." he said, "for tho railway employoeH to de-irrt de-irrt hi her wiiKes at a tl me when Wii.Kes are being Increased all around them and the cost of living Is increasing. increas-ing. Somo method must sooner or later be devised which will safeguard their Interest as well us the Interest of the lmeslors Rnd the public. All three clauses ought to be represented In every important adjustment like the so-call ex 1 eight-hour law on a nation-wide bitsis,"