Show LABOR LAnon UNIONS Simon Attack Railroad OP Or Sn g Cause Callie labor organizations allons are ar art by b Thompson representative of the General Manag ers association of Chicago In III a II pam pamphlet pamphlet wherein he ho charges them with responsibility for tor la discipline to which he ho attributes that havo annually many deaths and cas cAli Then he makes n a vicious attack up on the alleged all efficiency of block sig nals uton which railroad managements have hao expended enormous of oC mon mOil money ey In order to prevent and glo added protection to life lite und prop property properly erty erly Mr Thompson Insists that Is III needed more m re than these sig signals nals Of labor organizations ho says They The nn over Oer tho Ihu entire Held of ot employment de detrimental to discipline disciplining nn have to be with proofs of hab habItual and nn dangerous ta 10 face a 1 demand for tor Ills his reinstatement Tho 1110 trouble Is that having neither au lU authority nor responsibility tho organization of railway Interferes with tho authority of railway officials In Innumerable ways They seek leek to dictate appointments to tho Iho various branches of the tho service and they restrict employment to their own number They The also act as ns a 11 check un the prompt sus suspension UIt pension II loll or dismissal of at men for or causo coveted by tho good of or the If It thu organizations guaranteed that all their members ft Iere ere competent reliable men and would be bo loyal lo al em amenable to discipline In what whatever ever branch of he service employed their th lr watchfulness lest might h done dono to such auch members would be Jus JUI tillable Hut members member In a 1 railway brotherhood conveys no such lIuch guaran guarantee tee Mr Thompson Thomp on drives homo home to 10 labor organizations tho responsibility for many wrecks by the statement nt that thac tho Iho lark Illek of discipline tho Iho pros ellS of tl account fur nine tenths of oC thu Iho collisions not where hero the block system Is la used but where It ItIs Is III not net Then Theil Mr Thompson BIlks asks whIt what tic nc counts for tor this Ihl of Ill operating In enforcing regulations Is Js It not ho he siy 1111 they the are In Inconstant constant between public de do demands domand mands mand for tor fiut schedules schedule a n division of ot authority over th their lr II from the engineers to 10 the tho switchmen liv Ih livery ery net ot the operating l 11 not only subject to ta appeal to his hi own su al superior all l but to tl the ot at the cm em l ojo unions un 1011 or lr brotherhoods In Mr Thomp opinion the Ih t st physical th means menns to prevent lOvent collisions u I double tl trucking and although hl adoption of ot tho block system 1111 may coma c In Importance he de Ie Hint the It hall haa attained do 11 nut warrant the Interstate lon in III III popular attention on its U universal do 01 M a Cor or railway train lUK ks stein IM thus with tho block signal though Ik It 11 ta to be correct in III l tin hit for on reason MM of ot Uk Hit t iu Why h Umilo U in lit not i 1 that ian worK It h nn hall l t moi HUK Iha ll nit U III 11 0 M It lH 1141 s u t 1 III Ml I 11 l U II dl l 1111 It ItI I II b 1 t It hI Ia t t sons ons which the Interstate commission as a at present constituted has hIli always made between American and ond foreign to reign railroads rail rOil |