Show II UNION CHIEF WARNS I 1 OF UPHEAVAL VAL UNLESS LIVING COST DROPS I 1 ASHINGTON July Wllliam William 31 William G G. Lee pr president of the Brotherhood Brotherhood Broth Broth- I WASHINGTON of Railway Trainmen made public today an abstract of or orI I the report of the tha hearings recently held by the board of railroads wages jn n n the trainmen's demands demands at t which h he lie declared an upheaval was nearer in this country t today day than ever before due to the theu u unrest rest arising aris aria ing fr from m mounting living living costs The railroad and nd g government t depart depart- men ad bet er b t crU fr r pr profiteering by packers and other hez au he e d. d than th n across os the taste at al each other at conSIder un f t 7 or All of us are to blame he said because we are ex exerting every effort to get more money for ourselves and better conditions Every day we mutt must realize reali that the profiteers are tatting taking double from the the workingmen working working- men what is given them and the with the people on the hill capitol with us and with every corporation and with everybody is that we are exerting ourselves to get the dollar while the workingman is merely existing and while the profiteer is piling up millions l I II j I 1 will admit to you gentlemen that we are going the wrong way I admit to you that it is time to call a halt and I 1 admit to you that until we get together until we commence together to stop this there will willbe willbe willbe be hell in this country country and and it Is nearer today than I ever knew it in my years of experience Just let somebody drop a match in this country of or ours and it will be a sorry day for all of us Unless my vision is most terribly obscured then there is something something something some some- thing thing- coming to us pretty soon in m this country that we had better take takei i notice of We Ve had something of peace in this country prior to the war conditions We Ve were getting along fairly well until profiteering became so BO noticeable everywhere and until the commodities that working people are compelled to pay for were permitted to be Increased doubled and trebled without question and often seemingly with the approval of the government We Ve are nearer war In this world today I believe than when the I kaiser threw out the gauntlet Our lawmakers are to blame in my opinion because the masses of the people would be behind them if it they I would attempt to correct it and surely there is power to correct it but instead the they are playing politics and some of these labor organizations are ore playing politics and it is the same all down the line I |