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Show ASMT Trf : :" F THE tWS'OR rHTrVrl, '' sm t- 1 WASHINGTON, Aug 17. When machinery was Invented the French.' peasants saw it only as a means fori It icing away their work and livelihood.1 They hated It And they made war I on it. One of their methods wns to' pull off a wooilen shoe and throw it j into -the works. The shoe was a "sa-boi." "sa-boi." so this practice was "sabot-1 age " I When tli.- government took over- the1 railroads the owners and managers' ann banker-exploiters did not like it They saw government ownership as a IheanS for taking away their work and their livelihoods So they threw mon-i key-wrenches into the works when-1 ever they could do so without being found out. And so they made the government management more difficult. diffi-cult. With the return of the "allroads to1 l : .tto ownership the railroad employes em-ployes a're the ones who are dlssatls-l fled They had a better deal under! McAdoo than they ever got from the. priv ate operators. So thev are the I ones who are doing the saboting now i nl. tlurc Is still another motive al work. The banker-owners and managers of the railroads hav ing got the government to guarantee them their profit, whether they work or not,' have decided that It would be nice fori the government to produce indefinite millions in addition "for betterments. " I If a goose will la one golden epg I why will she not lay two or two doz- I " DU kUVj 'lie 5UUUlrtjlN(, I'llOUKU to make sure that the roads will not earn money for betterments The recent elevation of rates Is cal-1 ciliated to take from the public, In ad-j dlt.on lo what the roads nave been t.ikniK on billion five hundred mll-l lion dollars a ear, which la JriOO.OOO. - 000 to the Increase of wages and ?poo.000 000 to the increase of prof-i its. rr |