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Show MoT HEADS "DEMY' : PROGRAM OF COERCION Have "No Intention" by "Threats or Violence" to Impress Their Proposals on Public. Statement Issued in Na-tional Na-tional Capital; Appeal ! to "Common Sense" of the American People. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Offi-dais Offi-dais of the railroad administration. . said tonight they expected a great improvement in the strike situa-: situa-: Uon over Sunday with virtually a full force in all shops by Monday, i Their reports indicated the men were returning to work gradually 36 the situation was explained to them, . though radical groups in , some cities were refusing to go back without wage increases. WASHINGTON. AugJ 9. Leaders of -t the fifteen organizations of railroad I employees united today in a definite .. tsscrtion "that they had", no desire J.4 hive had none, to impress upon the public by "violence or by threat" their r proposal that the railroads be national-.'i national-.'i li.cd under "tripartite control." Declaring that tho requests of the men that living costs be reduced or : their wages increased was aside from Uic question of the future disposition II of the railroad problem, the labor lead-... lead-... sail that if President Wilson and : - congress could not meet this request .j, the. men would "try to find another ' solution. ' ' Plans for the formation of a national conference for railroad control were discussed at a luncheon hore today attended at-tended by representatives of the broth-FWhomls broth-FWhomls and prominent persons from various parts of the country who were invited by the brotherhoods to be members of tho conference as representatives repre-sentatives of the public, " Those attending included Frank P. .Walsh and Edward F. Dunne of Chi-li Chi-li Governor Allen of Kansas, Fred-C' Fred-C' """C. J. A. H. Hopkins and t "orris L. Cook of New York, and Basil ,,: Manlcv of (he war labor board. STATEMENT LIKELY IMPELLED BY WILSON. . hile Hie labor leaders did not men-! .ri the president's address to congress :trrday it was the general belief that (Whoir statement resulted from. his warn-t, warn-t, to the labor world that strikes , uld ouly make present conditions i, "se and that those who sought to em-rn.v em-rn.v threats or coercion were only Preparing their own destruction." To provent any misunderstanding r to the policy of the organized rail-. rail-. W employees." said the statement, i ' 'unite in a definite ajscrtiou that , nav0 no desire and have had none . : ""press upon Ihe public bv violence l'1 our proposal that the rail-Control rail-Control naHon,,lizod under tripartite ,i','Twi distinctly separate considora- Cnfr0nt the PPl. ke ' fce requirements of the railroad om-l om-l JO'". and the Sims bill (embodying ra,lWav employees' plan for reor- ....ation of the railronns. DECLARE PROPOSITION AN v. EMINENTLY JUST ONE." m y just vropc B ta,d tt if we are to y, ontmue to Uve as Amorican6 8noud ? JLZll' for our families as (Conl on page 3. Column 3.) RAIL LABOR HEADS DEIfCOEBl (Continued From Fage One.) American families should be cared for, the profiteers must be restrained or our 1 wages increased. Every fair minded man, and every intelligent housewife, will recognize the reasonableness of this request. If congress and the president pres-ident cannot meet this request, it is still a living question and we shall have to try to find another solution. "This, however, bears in no way upon our sponsorship of the Sims bill. We do hold to arc conviction that. the railroad employees are in no mood to consign themselves finally to the autocratic auto-cratic control of financial dictators, but in proposing the elimination of capital and the tripartite directorate, we have no purpose of intimidation. "We appeal to the statesmanship of A merica and to the common sense of American manhood man-hood and womanhood. We are all vo- ters; and unless our democracy in government gov-ernment is a failure, our democracy in industry need not be. We believe in the native ability of American labor. What we ask is the Americanization of the railroads' Senator HilchcocU. Democrat, Nebraska, Ne-braska, announced that he was opposed to the plan of the railroad brotherhoods for reorganization of (lie railroads, replying re-plying to an inquiry from brotherhood officials in Nebraska. |