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Show RAIL ROAO LEADERS WILL HOT COERCE HAVE "NO INTENTION" TO IMPRESS IM-PRESS PROPOSALS ON PUBLIC BY "THREATS OR VIOLENCE." Statement Issued in National Capital. Appeal to "Common Sense" of the American People. Men Are Gradually Returning to Work. Washington. Leaders of the fifteen organizations of railroad employees united Saturday in a definite assertion asser-tion "Unit they had" no desire and have hail none, to Impress upon the public by "violence or by threat" their proposal that the railroads be nationalized national-ized under "tripartite control." Iieclaring that the requests of the men that living costs be reduced or the'r wages Increased was aside from the question of the future disposition of the railroad problem, the labor leaders said that If President Wilson and congress could not meet this request, re-quest, the men would "try to find another an-other solution." I'lans for the formation of a national conference for railroad control were discussed at a luncheon attended by representatives of the bortherhoods and prominent persons from various parts of Ihe country who were Invited by the brotherhoods to be members of (be conference as representatives of the public. While the labor leaders did not mention men-tion the president's address to congress con-gress it was the general belief that their statement resulted from his warning to the labor world that strikes would only make present conditions worse and that those who sought to employ threats or coercion were only "preparing their own destruction." "Two distinctly separate considerations considera-tions now confront the people, the wage requirements of the railroad employees, em-ployees, and the Sims bill (embodying the railway employees' plan for reorganization reor-ganization of the railroads). "In the matter of wages we have submitted an eminently just proposition. proposi-tion. We have said that if we are to continue to live as Americans should live and are to care for our families as American families should be cared for, the profiteers must be restrained or our wages increased. Every fair minded man, and every intelligent housewife, will recognize the reason-' reason-' ableness of this request. If congress and the president cannot meet this request, re-quest, it is still a living question and v,-? shall have to try to find another solution. |