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Show PLAN HAILED AS CURE-ALL. Plumb Says His Scheme Would Reduce Re-duce Freight Rates 40 Per Cent. Chicago. Glenn E. Plumb presented present-ed his plan for the nationalization of the railroads to the National Labor party convention here Sunday and was enthusiastically received. He said that the Plumb plan would reduce freight rates forty per cent and thereby help reduce the high cost of living. He defined the system as a profit saving rather than as a profit-sharing profit-sharing plan. Increased wages, he said, did not benefit the wage earner if every raise resulted in higher prices for necessities of life. |