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Show I ATLANTA, N. J., April 27. Discussion Discus-sion of labor's rolation to capital, to .which the United. States chamber of commerce In convention here will devote de-vote Its Thursday session, began with the railroad group tonight when speakers speak-ers urged an organized effort to combat com-bat the control it was alleged union labor has assumed over I'ailway operation. oper-ation. R. H. Angelle, banker of Roanoke, Va., declared "union labor Is in control con-trol of the railways absolutely and if we wait a little while they will have a strangle hold on us from which we cannot extricate ourselves." "Labor has made the challenge and we should accept it, for this fight i which has been thrust upon us must i ' be fought out some time," he said, t He asserted ho was not antagonis- tic to union labor, nor to workingmen, I ) but ho was opposed to "anything like i the dictatorial Plumb plan." 1 "The chamber of commerce should make recommendations to both national nation-al conventions in favor of platform .planks against union labor domination. domina-tion. The party that will lead us to (salvation Is the party that will save ( us from this trouble." ' A number of delegates expressed 1 ' support of such a policy. The report of the committee, which was adopted, declared "railroads are entitled to receive from shippers and passengers rates that will pay them a living wage for services performed and I it is the duty of the public to insist that ifsepresentatives shall estab-l estab-l (Hsh. a txahsporlation policy that is fecu'from a business standpoint." The Republican commerce group tonight to-night adopted resolutions offered by "William C. Redfield, former secretary of commerce, that the trade embargo against Russia bo lifted and relations between citizens of the United States and Russia be resumed. The resolutions resolu-tions disclaimed any intention to recognize rec-ognize the Bovlet government. |