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Show CANADIAN UW . I Brotherhood Leaders Issue 1 Statement Explaining Their , Opposition to Such Legislation. ! OCCURRENCE CITED ; H Employers Entrench Them- I selves Behind Investigations to Defeat Men's De- H mands. H Washington, Aug. 29. The brother- , hood leaders, Garretson, Stone, Lee and Carter, issued the following state-ment state-ment explaining their opposition to any legislation along the plan of the IH Canadian commission: IH "Since the abolition of slavery no , more effectual means has been devls- , fl ed for Insuring the bonding of the ! working man than the passage of 'H compulsory Investigation acts of the character of the Canadian industrial i IH "To cite an actual occurrence: "In 1910 the men upon eighty rail-roads rail-roads in the eastern territory of tho United States presented to the rail-road rail-road companies of that territory a demand for an Increase in wages. The companies refused to deal concerted- I jH ly ' with the proposition and It was therefore taken up with the indlvid-ual indlvid-ual roads. Three of the properties were Canadian and two days after t negotiations were opened on January i jH 7, the first road in the United States' i negotiations opened on the three Can- jH adian properties. The negotiations In i the United States included federal mediation In the first and arbitration in the third case. L "On the 9th day of July following, 1 settlement was made on the last of I jH the seventy-seven roads involved. On I the same date at 6 p. m. a strike took r jH place on the Grand Trunk railway, , one of the Canadian railways, settle-ment settle-ment not having yet been affected u JH on any one of the three, this growing , JH out of the delays which the employ-ers employ-ers were able to Interpose under the industrial disputes' act , Employers Entrenched. , "Moreover, the period of investiga- .H tion is eternally utilized by the em- l ployer t0 entrench himself in his ef- for to defeat the demands of the men, If no matter how just their cause may ( be, and in a majority of Instances jH where a verdict by an investigating ; commission has been favorable to the men, it has been repudiated by tho employer. In consequence of thiB at- j 'M titude, disregard for and tho Ignoring jM of the provisions of that law has led j to placing thousands of men in tho attitude of lawbreakers and the pass- J age of laws which induce men to open r violation thereof is a deadly Injury I to a nation because It breeds univers- I' al contempt for law. "In the present strife, If such an I act were passed all that would be ,j vM necessary would be for the power of V1 jl attorney to be withdrawn from the national conference committee of managers by the individual roads and T'H then immediate necessity would arise , for 250 investigation boards to be '. IH created or, if only a limited number would be provided for, men would be 1 compelled to remain for years in vol- untary servitude if they obeyed tho provisions of such a law." |