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Show I " For Employees' I '" jpization Bfl Pennsylvania's Pond Explains Ob- Bl l' 'jectlons'to Oi'dar of nallroad Bfl Telegraphers B if J , BI Bfl tj Wash'iiKton, May f. Tlio Ponnsyl- Bfl vnnln llnllroail company, answering Bfl clmiyoH of unfairness to organized la- BB bor boforo tlio United States commls- BB 4" ston on Industrials relations today, H do!nrcd through Its prcalilcnt, W. Bfl W. Atterbury that It did not opposo Bfl organization of Its employes but did B Insist upon tho open shop principle Bal ami opposed unions with nfMintlons B8 i which might bring on sympathetic H j Htrlkos. Bfl 5 "Wo would wolcomo closer rola- BS . tlons with our employes," said Mr. B j Atterlmry "If It could bo brought Bfl about undor proper nusplccs. Wo Bb would more thnn wolcomo an organlz- Bfl ntlon of all Pennsylvania railroad cm- Bfl ploycos nmong themselves without en H - tangling outsldo alllnnccs. Such nn BK organization undoubtedly would bo Bfl good for the railroad ami anything H that Is gopd for tho railroad Is good BS for tho employes." B -Tho Objection of tho Pennsylvania H to tho Ordor of Hallway Tolegraplt- B8 ors, which nindu tho complaint Bfl ngnliist tlio (ompany to tlio commls- Bfl slon, tho witness said, was tliat It Bfl ! , would mako tho men responslblo to Bfl' I tho presldont of tho union and not H 1 to tho proper officials of tho railroad H 1 company. H I Mr. Atteruury championed media- H ; tlon as tlio best means of settling H labor disputes and said that ho would B wolcomo a federal workman's com- BBj pcnsatlon law for interstate commerco Bfl pmploycs, modeled after somo of tho Bfl stnto compensation laws. B Boforo Mr. Attorbury Bubmlttcd B tho nttltudo of tho Pennsylvania com B Pony, II. B. Perham, president of B tho Ordor of Railroad Telegraphers, H v.lio testified yesterday was again Bfl questioned by tho commission as to Bfl complaints against tlio company. |