Show SOME P AD prom committee on industrial relations washington charging the corn com cittee of railroad managers with a do liberato liberate attempt to deceive the public prank frank P walsh issued a statement repudiating and denouncing tho the use of the namo name of the united states commission on industrial relations I 1 lions lit in connection with the distribution trib ution ot of a pamphlet attach attacking iiii tho the eight hour movement inclement of the railroad brotherhoods brothe the pamphlet la is entitled wages and hours ot of railroad employed Emp loyes and Is by luke grant who iu is designated on tile the cover and again on oil tho the title page as special ascent tor for the united states industrial commission after characterizing grants discussion 0 the athe eidt hour movement of tho the brotherhoods brothe as a skillful skill tul piece f t special plea pleading dino in which facts acta are distorted tor for tile the evident purpose of 0 prejudicing the public against the men mr air walsh says grant Is not an arnt ar nt 0 athe indus trial commission ar a r has not been since last july tile the commission as was well known to tile the railroad mail managers viren they put out this pamphlet expired by statutory tory limitation in august and their use of this designation of grant is a deliberate and willful attempt to deceive the public and to give tho the prestige of the commission to a document that is not entitled to it and that without it would carry no weight no investigation into conditions of employment lit in the railroad train service over wa by tho the cm mission any information on the subject possessed by air grant must have keen been handed to him by the railroads or obtained by him from some other source his article sounds suspiciously ilk like an echo of the statement issued by tho the railroads themselves mr air grant giant since he loft left tile the om am ploy ot of tile the commission has been employed by tho tariff commission league and in that employment ho he has attempted to capitalize his stan ding with organized labor acquired tta in past years as an all active trade unionist grants attack on oil th broth shows him lit in his anio chat char neter acter as a hostile lio stilo critic of tile tho jabot movement and a champion of thos dhosi interests that are always ready to ro re ward men of his type this dishonest uso use ot of the namo of tile the commission Is not tile evid once that the railroads are detent tried to sacrifice thu the truth in theli theil campaign to turn the public tho the men who operate tho the trains ano anci to defeat the movement to bellev them fro long hours of labor in their own names the railroad managers have issued a statement which for eor deliberate and shameless misrepresentation of the facts hns has never been beell surpassed this statement asserted flatly and alid without cation that the men wore were demanding large increases in pay not until two thirds ot of a column had be been n 0 occupied by these statements lid did the author incidentally mention tile the fact that the men are proposing not higher wages but relief relict fi from om ten twelve fourteen and sixteen hour work days and this in ili the freight service only not a cent of additional pay la Is demanded by the men except for time in ili excess of eight hours and after S 8 hours the men ask time and one halt half for overtime only when tile the speed of the train averages aver agoa less lesa than twelve and one half miles per hour tile tho successful mendacity of the railroad managers Is shown in tho the headlines that wore were placed above this statement in good faith by newspaper editors who wished to convey tho the sub stance of the statement these headlines conveyed tile tho impression universally that the men were demanding large increases in ili wages further to prejudice tho the mens case and prevent a fair public hearing tho the railroad managers lit in cuir statement to tho the public confused tile tho 8 hour day with tho the suggestion of higher freight rates or a reduction in ili C continued on oil page iago 6 AD continued from pago page 3 interest and all d dividend dividen t payments estlIn the only qu question now at issue a whether or not the 8 hour day uni 01 er sally recognized afta as the longest of labor that should ile bo to ro gutred should bo be enjoyed by the men who aro are responsible sor or the safety 0 of lives and property oil oh american Ameil can rail oads to T r raise also the question of freight ates orl dividend in this on nocton Is as far beside tho the point 8 NI I 1 Fould I 1 ile be to ralee raise the question of whether vii ether or not tile I 1 preal tents lenta still and mana managers sors bli hould be sent to jail for stealing lions of dollars st lands in ili ilia he west tor for wrecking wre 11 1 19 railroad alter after railroad b hu a 1 t 11 g or of worthless wort iless stocks and or r voting huge commissions ind socrat takeoffs rake offs to favored ban bankers ers and brbora for bribing public and debauching debau ching legislatures ar for or conspiring with arfat indest lal corporations to td cruh compea and build monopolies for the r 0 I 1 ng pt of the people to bo be con concluded eluded il i |