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Show INVESTIGATION IS BEING URGED Movement Started to Bring Railroads and Shopmen Before Commission. LOCKOUT NOT STRIKE Illinois Central - Harriman Trouble Wtih 35,000 Men Should Be Threshed Out. Kansas City, Mo., April 13. A movement to bring the difficulty between be-tween the Illinois Central and Harriman Harri-man lines and 35,000 shopmen before the federal Industrial relations committee com-mittee was started by Frank Comer-ford Comer-ford of Chicago in an address before the railway cmploycB dopartmcnt of the American Federation of Labor today. to-day. He urged the body to petition the committee to make an investigation investiga-tion at once. "I would like to see the commission commis-sion comb the homes of every worker work-er thrown out of omployment," Mr. Comerford said. "Let the workers and their families tell their stories-tales stories-tales of blighted homes, children robbed rob-bed of their rights to schooling and forced into sweat shops and it will quickly find out the cause of industrial indus-trial dlacontont and its offect on public pub-lic welfare," Mr. Comerford declared the Illinois Central-Harrlman trouble should be called a "lockout." not a "strike " "The roads call the men strikers" he said. "The men say they were locked out They say when a man is forced to choose between his rights to organize and his job it amounts to a lockout. "Every employer who has testified before the new industrial relations committee has declared himsolf in favor of collective bargaining. What was the workers' plan in the Illinois Central? Wasn't it collective bargaining?" bargain-ing?" Mr. Comerford criticised tho courts for granting injunctions against labor. la-bor. Liquor is passing out of the life of the railroad worker, declared A. O. Wharton of St. Louis. "Trades unionism Is an education to the workers," he asserted, "and with education comes the knowledgo that whisky Is the worst enemy of the railroad man. The man who has taken a couple of drinks is no more fit to tnke up serious work around a railroad yanOhan n man who Is out of his mind. Liquor is passing from the railroad man's life. The follows know It is their enemy and they aro against It." |