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Show Plumb Plan Author Discusses Dis-cusses Problem of Living Liv-ing Cost and Wages. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) RICHMOND, Ya Aug. 31. Glenn E. Plumb of Chicago, author of the Plumb plan for nationalization of the railroads adopted by the railroad brotherhoods, which are urging it on congress, in an address here before organized railroad workers, declared that if a railroad strike vote is returned in response to President Wilson's rejection of the workers' demands for wage increases, it is difficult to tell how far the action will go. "L'nder government control," he said, "there has been disposition to grant wage increases freely, wth the general public footing t he bills either bv increased rates or by additional taxation. tax-ation. Now the employees are told, through the president's offer to the shopmen, that if their demands are temporarily tem-porarily withdrawn he will see lo it personally that their interests are safeguarded safe-guarded in the future. "But what in effect would t hi a amount to but a combination between the government and labor to exploit the general public, just as under private pri-vate control it was a combination between be-tween capital and labor to exploit the general public? In either case, the public pub-lic bears the burden in increased trans- portatJOR costs, iu invisible taxation, j in fin increased cost of living. ' ' Such a coinhiuation, indeed, I he railway unions are under constant temptations temp-tations to enter. The president iiuites tli em to continue the nrnet ices of ( lie old system. But we must he finished with those practices, with that system, t'or fjooil and all. We must refuse any longer to have our interests guaranteed at the expense of the general public." |