Show RAIL flAIL OPEN fiGHT ON HAULING Trucks and Busses Busses- Cut Deep Into Earnings Earn Earn- ings Official Says On the theory that truck transportation transportation trans trans- should supplement but not compete with rail transportation tion the Union Pacific company Is marshaling its all over the country for an organIzed organised organized organ organ- fight against motor transportation tation This fact was made known Wednesday ev evening nIng when G. G H. H Sines assistant to E E. E. E Calvin vice president in charge of operation ad addressed addressed addressed ad- ad dressed a mass meeting of Union Pacific in the auditorium of the Butter bakery Both the theoffice theoffice theoffice office and shop forces attended the gathering Mr Sines said that the motor motol trucks and busses have already cut into railroad earnings to an amount equal iQ o the annual pay of railroad Unless motor competition Is stifled he said the reduction in earnings will necessitate necessitate necessitate tate a reduction in the force EARNINGS DEPLETED Motor trucks and busses continued con cox con seriously slY Mr Sines are so depleting railroad earnings espo- espo daily on the branch lines that th tile the T carriers find themselves menace menaced with the necessity of abandoning much of ot their branch line mileage if this competition continues Th The number of passengers carried by rail has decreased 25 per cent since 1920 although Americans are traveling trav trav- cling eling more than ever before It Is needless to say he con continued con I that we cannot hope to maintain the same force and operate operate operate oper oper- ate the same local mileage under these conditions The result must inevitably be a reduction In service service sen ice and a consequent reduction t Inthe in inthe the number of Mr Sines Is making a tour of the entire Union Pacific system speaking speak speak- ing lag to and organizing them for the protection of the company's company's com corn pany's interests against the en eX encroachments encroachments en- en of or the motor carrier SUPPORT PLEDGED 5 Following the officials official's address the gathering gathering adopted 6 a resolution pledging the support of the em em- to the company Steps were also taken to divide the whole body of into committees to call shippers in Salt Lake and surroUnding surrounding sur- sur ro roUnding towns with the request that they ship by rail wherever possible A committee was also tentatively tentatively ten ten- appointed to devise other ways was and means whereby by the company company com corn pany workers may use their Influence Influence ence once or 01 bring pressure to bear on shippers In this connection One of the principal arguments these committees will use is to point out to Salt Lake business men and the the- public generally that the monthly pay roll In Salt Lake of th thOr the Or Oregon gon Short Line and the Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles Salt Lake Route amounts i to and that the they the business business busi busI- ness interests and people at large are bound to suffer from any de decrease decrease decrease de de- crease in the volume of this pay payroll payroll roll POIGNANT FACTS The committees will point out out to all concerned that the total number number num nurn- ber her of tickets sold locally on the Short Line and the Salt Lake Route has readY already fallen from in 1917 to in 1923 and that the total poundage of freight shipped over these two lines within a radius of fifty miles of this city has fallen from fron in 1917 to in 1923 Be iBe It further resolved reads tho the resolution adopted by the em em- that each of the organizations organizations here represented represent d appoint committees committees com corn to persuade the citizens anti and merchants O of ot Salt Lake to give their patronage to the railroads rather than to too other forms of transportation transportation trans trans- |