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Show PRESENT PLAN TO HOUSE I Glen H. Plumb Urges Public Ownership of the Railroads, WASHINGTON, Aug. fi. Clen E Plumb, lawyer of Chicago, who firat presented the railroad brotherhood's plan for publli nership ami pi Bte operotlon of the railroads before the senate last February, appeared today ihefore the house Interstate commerce I committee to present arguments in ! support of thai plan which haa been incorporated in the bill introduced by Representative Sims, now pending in the house Referring; to the tri partite plan, Mr. Plumb said: "This vast army of producers up-pears up-pears before you a united force, profoundly pro-foundly convinced of the economic I soundness of the principles upon j which their plan is huili The constantly con-stantly rising cost of commodities ha .far outstripped the purchasing power of the consumers wage. This has j compelled a corresponding lowering of l the standard of existence. I "Resistance is inevitable. We now i find a hundred good railway employes refusing longer to render their ser j ices for these constantly diminishing diminish-ing returns This manifestation of revolt re-volt Is hut symptomatic of the entire industrial situation It b not unr l that confronts us, it Is revolt bei of Industrial conditions no longei I be borne. ' The plan which labor presents h.i-been h.i-been prepared after a most careful 'udy of the economic situation exisi ing, the causes of the present evils and the proper correctives to 1" plied. '"We already number in the supporters support-ers of labor's plan approximately six million adult producers about one-sixth one-sixth of the productiw manpower of the United States. Perhaps the same i proportion of the political power of the nation, and a financial power which few comprehend Those em ployed on the railways alono represented repre-sented In this movement, receive aj their annual compensation for the Investment In-vestment of their life and labor upwards up-wards of two and a half billion dollars dol-lars a year two and a half times the, amount of compensation paid for the m,e of the money invested in railways "It is claimed by those who represent repre-sent the financial Interests that they have investments of approximately twenty billion dollars In this industry. indus-try. Unless they receive a return ol la billion dollars a year how shall this , investment of money be c ompared with that investment of life and labor that receives a return of two and a jhalf billion dollars a year'' |