Show R iI len Rap ap Employers instatement IL-instatement hi Of 0 Grievances I Representatives 1 of Unions Invited to Present Dea Dean De De- a i c mands an s Before re Me Meeting ng of of Rotary CI Club b u f r t r r Representatives of the railroad unions embracing embracing the em em em- f of the Utah railroads involved in the threatened of transcontinental railroads have b bee been eh i invited to lo o present a statement o of o. their demands at an early meeting of the Rotary club The railroad will probably accept the invitation and a meeting will likely be arranged at the next meeting of the Rotary club on Tuesday Tues Tues- day The unions yesterday authorized the following statement One of ot our greatest said You can fool all of th the people part of tIre tiro time and part of the people all of the time but you cant can't fool all of the people all of the time If the public will brush aside the flo flood d of printed matter and oratory with which the railroads are now misleading misleading mis mist leading and confusing them and ask of the railroads Now candidly why are you ou opposed to the hour eight-hour day And if the railroads will be frank and admit it it they will say Well we oppose the hour eight-hour day because we have consistently opposed every progressive movement since the beginning and we are still opposed We opposed the public when they demanded demanded de de- de- de better service and a fair deal between the big and small shipper We opposed the various citizens who sought equal for all local local- JUes ittes We opposed the interstate commerce com corn merce commission and the state commissions commissions com corn missions until we were overpowered and actually forced to be fair We have bave resorted to every known means of or opposition to fair dealing and progress progress ress reas and since the present hour eight day dar movement is a natural movement of hun humanity and is progressive and to It In fair faili fairwe we are therefore opposed sour our past opposition we have arrayed the public against the or the against the public as the situation situation situation sit sit- might demand but always In our own interest and we have been so successful with this this' method that we have sometimes thought that Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham bam Lincoln might be a false prophet Our frankness permits us to say that his general standing is considerably weakened with us because of his opposition opposition op Opt op- op position to Jo slavery and his faith inthe inthe in inthe the common people At any rate we weare weare weare are still fooling the people regardless of the sayings of Abraham Lincoln or these frank admissions we are making to you rou Mr Public I INow No Honest Confessions I Now if corporations had souls an honest confession such as the above might be secured the people would know and arid be able to make their de de- de- de But there will be no no honest confession and th the people must therefore therefore there there- I fore decide by their past experience and their regard for humanity In Jo this contest the railway em I em-I I disadvantage are at a great because because of of far reaching business and banking Interests that exercise such I tremendous control or Influence throughout the entire country These influences are also used to mislead the public Among these powerful interests there are many good people who allow their firm or their allied concerns to be used for for- what may seem to them th the protection of business business busi busi- ness and this has Its Influence with the disinterested business concerns and on down the line Une the unseen movement movement movement move move- ment finds its way v There are many prominent people who go out through the country and address various meetings in support of the railroads Some of these people peo peo- pIe are hired for this purpose others are in regular railway service in the I I upper branches and do this through policy and there are others who speak merely through sympathy with big business and their desire to help maintain the present standards We read in the late papers of a man who addressed the notary Rotary club and told them of the vast sums to be spent In Utah by the railways railways truly truly a siren song song and and declared the railways in their present eight houi dispute were anxious for arbitration The people may well ask themselves What has the large sums that are to be spent In Utah to do with the Justice of the hour eight-hour day for train and engine engine- men We say nothing whatever except except except ex ex- ex- ex that the railways by their usual ni nr nf Ride fiul the f for r their own w advantage nt g now ai now aim lt to confuse confuse- the issue and mislead the public pub pub- lie lic with a glitter of gain that can have no reality reality- for the people at large Grades Lowered I The railway te tells s of lowering I grades at vast expense but what does this tills mean meau to the people Nothing except a contractors contractor's gain and a few tew dollars wages to Greeks or Japanese workers who send the money home What does it mean to the railroads Greater tonnage moved at less cost to the whom whom the public No the railroad What does it mean to the the engine and trainman Ah there is is the pity of it ft for it means for the more cars with less em em- discharge for tor part of the em em- with a consequent breaking up of homes and scattering of families perhaps the mother working In a laundry laundry laundry laun laun- dry and the children children for foron foron foron for for- on the street while the father father know knowIng know know- Ing no other vocation and perhaps past the age limit searches limit searches for tor another another an an- another other place or accepts some other underpaid underpaid un un- un paid der-paid employment And for the who Is not discharged discharged dis dis- dis charged by this wonderful and costly reduction in grade what is there For these men there will be additional duties du duties duties du- du ties and great long tonnage trains that twIll wIn keep the men dragging along the road the full tull ull sixteen hour periods Think of it Sixteen hours two full fun reasonable days work for two men instead of one when th the re receive re- re cei c their hour eight-hour day Think of ot It It 11 in terms of humanity and sound reason 1 i Sixteen hours of ot drudgery and nerve racking work cut in two and divided b between tween both oye emp the employed and the tho unemployed Here you have havea a a p picture of the dispute a picture with Ute life and color In it You Tou must certainly certain certain- lY understand it But there Is still more to this problem lem lm there is something else that is in truth the key Time and a half for overtime the penalty the would impose for all hours In excess of eight ight and on account of this the railways will have to relieve each other at the expiration of ot each eight hours and still there Is no rigid limit of eight hours for the may work additional hours In an emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency where circumstance may re require require re- re quire it I Expensive Improvements ments So much for the results result of ot that Unit I wonderful and expensive cha change ge fn In r I I grades grads th those se expensive improvements that are sometimes made for the benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit of ot the people but usually for the tho advantage of the railways Truly this is the mess of ot pottage offered for tor the bil of the people It is merely offered to mask the hardships Imposed upon the land and and- win the public to the support of die the corporation The speaker before the R ROtary tary club declared the railways were anxious for tor arbitration of ot the dispute with their How they have changed The railways did not believe in arbitration arbitration arbitration tion until they found a way to arrange the method t to their advantage It is hard to say that you will not arbitrate arbi arbi- trat and still when you ou havo have a a. well defined principle that you cannot compromise compromise com corn promise on what have you to arbitrate arbitrate arbi arbi- And still the do not say they will not arbitrate But it is quite apparent that the sole purpose of ot the railways is to confuse confuse confuse con con- I fuse the issue and puzzle and weary the public and drive them before th them m mand and use them to crush the esThe es The people will soon realize this Eight hours is long enough for any man to work and do Justice to himself himself and and his employer The people who are opposing opposing opposing op op- op- op posing the hour eight-hour day are surely the people who have never ne lad Had to work Some people cannot understand how the hour eight day can be carried out m n n railroad work but to the railroad people it Is very cle clear r It would merely merely mere mere- ly require that hat shorter trains be hauled and gotten over oyer the road in less time which would certainly be far better better better bet bet- ter for everyone It would mean good business too It would also mean the practice of ot humanity and safety first not the dollar first Surely the time Is at hand when hum human n life Ute and limb must be c considered before the dollar and that that- we shall build up up and not de destroy destroy destroy de- de I stroy the people and their future I Property Rights I The national and state constitutions I say that property rights must be r respected re respected re- re but that human right must be con considered first but hut with th the c cor cor- r- r I I I of or today property rights come first The health of ot employ s may be shattered and life and limb may maybe maybe be lost and there ther is little or no redress s. s But during labor troubles the militia is often called out to protect corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion property by the sacrifice of lives lit if necessary An hour eight day in railway servI service service ice will insure prompt shipment and delivery of your freight and will eliminate elim eUm- mate that industrial calamity the car shortage for the hour eight day com corn that expeditious movement of ot traffic that will bring the men into the I terminals and thus hus the cars will come comein in and be unloaded and set for reloading reloading reloading reload reload- ing and will not be stalled In the sidetracks sidetracks sidetracks side side- tracks or waiting their turn in the repair repairS tracks track's for new draft gear in place of f that which was was pulled out by bythe bythe bythe the heavy trai trains Some railway pub publicity agent in presenting the arguments for tor the railways rail rail- railways ways to the farmers has said that be before before before be- be fore the time of improved m machinery chinery the farm hands worked from fron s sunUp r rp to sundown and attended to their tasks and were contented What nonsense What human being with I imagination and red blood would ever ever- submit to such conditions if it there vere were something something something some some- some some- thing better This publicity agent may speak from his own experience and he may have been contented Contentment is a blessed thing He should have remained there We can close this address to the public in no more fitting titting way than to again recall to their minds that great American Lincoln who struck down slavery and declared that all of the people will not be fooled tooled all of ot the time H. H E. E Chairman By the Joint publicity board board- B. B o of L. L E. E B. B of R R. T. T B. B of L. L F. F E E. O. O ot of R. R C. C |