Show INSIDE STUFF By Dy PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON V. Aug 30 The 30 The r raIlS rail il ids may have lost a lot o of business t certainly not any of their old inkey business They still know knowN w N to lay an inside rail on a 1 political rye e rhe ftc delicate wa way they have been ling the new d deal al for ne needed ded ref rel re- re f l lately wo would ld do credit even to toi i genius of an Ivy y Lee He Ule handles bile bUc r relations for the best of them fou ou only have to go back a cou cou- of weeks to the time when the ids felt they were down to their t spike Their executives had haden hadn en n tipped privately that the new newil newil il 11 Coordinator Eastman was out coordinate them into government The They were scared stiff aid raId to move And when the government rammed financially Impossible pension a flown their throats they only a i. few times Umes meekly It was I before they accumulated option enough to ta file suit against i pension l act In court Fear ear of stirring up the new dealers so 50 o delayed for months any effort to l t Increased freight rates But a few 1 ys lys Liter alter the pension suit was filed e C roads toads applied to the I ICe C C for a ait at it t 10 lOper per cent freight rate boost They know well the I ICe C C will not give gi it to them ld td Petition in In fact there have to been leaks from fromar far ar Strategy Strater the I Ice C C indicating in ing that a major- major f of the commissioners is 15 dead set any increase whatsoever The ld Id application in the face of that was however only prelim prelim- ary lary ar to the tho really striking bit of It could not have b been n mere come come- on P Pe Pae e Two INSIDE INS INS IDE STUFF Continued from Pate Page One dence that a few days later the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York New Haven and Hartford rd railroad railroad rail rail- road announced that in m common with other railroads it il would have to jo begin firing some men because costs of operation have been going Ia go go going ing up That gentle hint will have the same sam I of feet on nn the new dealers 1 as if H a n Cross Cross- ross cross n tie had been dropped on President Roosevelt's foot It simply m menus means aM No increased d rates no work e S The general supposition among those in the know here is that the roads lately have found out govern govern- ment ownership is no longer a live possibility Where they found it ito out t no one knows Perhaps they read Professor Moley's magazine Today If they do they saw a very pointed 10 This editorial in it about editorial by by- Mr Roosevelt's best adviser ad ad- said said- that the new deal had bad no not done right by the railroads ds that there should be less talk of government ownership that the pension act was too oo hastily conceived that a a helping hand should now be lent Simultaneously the boys nt ot the poli po po- li Ii cal switches Eastman astman Knows here began to hear Plenty Menty About rumors that Mr Rail Ball Business ss Eastman might re re re-I sign T These e s e rumors rumors rumors ru ru- ru- ru mors are arc not accredited chiefly because Mr Eastman knows more about bout the railroads than the rail- rail railroads s do and the n new w deal cannot cannot can can- not nol afford to let him go 0 Nevertheless it all dovetails into the he main hidden point that a change in n policy polley toward the railroads Is at hand and That change change- is being forced by y a as beautiful a series aeries of maneuvers on the part of the railroads as an any publicity man would ever hope to sec see seeThe The change probably will pot not in in- clude dude increased freight rates but it will vill include a reorganization of at the pension system to provide ways for financing it Also legislation at the next session to regulate highway and waterway competition |