Show f 1 PRESIDENT r rI rf f r- r I RAPS CUMMINS 1 A MEASURE must rouel Rea Likens Likens' R. R R. R Bill to Fifth Wheel I of Wagon n h 1 By Associated Press OJ J iUT T. T LOUIS LOLIS Mo Oct 1 Appealing I.-Appealing r the the return of railroads t to 1 private Samuel Rea flea president of Pennsylvania e Pennsylvania railroad addressing I Si e convention here bere of the American Jankers' Jankers kers' kers association today attacked b e Cummins bill bilI pending in the tho senas sene sen- sen e as detrimental to the pro progress ress railroads and compared some of it to the fifth wheel of a 0 Olt tagon agora I Mr Rea assert asserted that the bill con- con ains ins some good features in m that it for the return of the roads to private ownership for rates sufficient sustain the roads and the pooling of and traffic but added that it operating initiative and jS s t The he reprehensible feature of the Mil 1 11 P declared Mr Rea Is ls that what company earns under fair and uniform uni uni- form rates through good management red V nd efficient transportation n can be beken iken ken from it and given to others inder the provision of ot the bill per pertain pertain- tain- tain g g. g to the commandeering of cess earnings of individual com- com anies He denounced the labor provisions of j i he e bill as too diffuse to be effective The The speaker predicted that the meagre mea mea- 11 gre 1 re re in its present form would cause causel l confusion in authorizing additions and to the roads and added The Cummins bill gives es us no prompt or definite assurance of ade- ade rates If the railroads had had hadId Id quate rates during the last decade there ere would have been no railroad Problems confronting the country I |