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Show eyw y B I J U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN CONVENTION Proposes to Send Group to Study Russian Trade Prospects APPEAL MADE FOR ELECTRIC RAILWAYS Increased Use of Such Lines for Freight and Passengers Passen-gers Urged ATLANTIC CITY. .N. J , April 28 The board of directors of the United States chamber of commerce today authorized au-thorized appointment of a commission to proceed to Europe to investigate the possibility of resumption of trade relations re-lations between tho United States and the Russian people. President Homer L. Ferguson was directed to name tlje members of the. commission and given authority to "bring the project to a successful ter- The foreign commerce group of the chamber previously had unanimously adopted a resolution proposing American Ameri-can trade with Russia be resumed and characterizing the soviet government as a "falling regime " Appeal 13 Made. John H. Pardee, president of the American Electric Railway association, associa-tion, before the convention of tho United States chamber of commerce hero today appealed to business men of the country to "help save the electric lines from ruin." "The plain truth," said he, "is that th'.-ir credit no longer exists and a necessary nec-essary public service is being slowly, perhaps, but no less surely, destroyed." Mr. Pardee urged the increased use of electric lines for short haul freight and passenger business. Several Problems. Discussion in the convention's general gener-al and group sessions today centered about problems of transportation and production as bearing upon the high cost of living and with organized labor's la-bor's attitude toward recent legislation. legisla-tion. George A. Post, chairman of the chamber's railroad committee, declared de-clared "we have the right to expect and insist that the railroad employes will co-operate with the officers and keep the wheels rolling, and not paralyze para-lyze commerce with quarrels among themselves. . . . Deeply Deplored. "The attitude of organized labor toward to-ward tho railroad labor board is deeply deep-ly to be deplored," he said. "So bitter bit-ter was their opposition that after the pnssagw of the transportation act publication pub-lication was made by labor leaders of thoir intention to mark for condign punishment at tho polls all senators and representatives who voted for the measure-. "The national chamber of commerce represents a large part of the public and 1' seems entirely proper, indeed imperative, that an appeal should be made In this body and to all tho.se whom you represent, to see to It that no congressman or scnatpr Is defeated brcauso supporting this." oo |