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Show SEN. ROBINSON OPPOSEOTKES Declares That Time Has Come When Congress Must Protect Pro-tect Life and Property. WOULD MODIFY LAW Transportation Tie-ups Should Be Forbidden and Rights of Employes Preserved. j WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 A law to prohibit strikes or lockouts of railroad rail-road employ, s and thus protect the public from transportation tie-ups was advocated by Senator Robinson. Democrat, Dem-ocrat, of Arkansas, in an address to-iday to-iday in the senate. "The time has come,' 'he said, "when congress must protect the public pub-lic against loss of life and property and Widespread suffering which will Inevitably result ll the railroads should be lied up b a g rx r.il strike. The right lo strike has heretofore been recognized in our laws, pari CU 1 larly In certain provisions of the Clayton Clay-ton act. Those laws should be modi-fled modi-fled and Btrlkei and lockouts on rail- |