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Show WALSH TAKES UP FIGHT FOR RAILWAY MEN I PLAN TO GUI I WAGES BLUED ON WALL STREET I Walsh Charges ''Huge Conspiracy" Con-spiracy" to Drive Pay to Pre-War Levels OPEN SHOP MOVE TO BE SHOWN UP, HE SAYS Lawyer Says Unfbns May Get Morgan on Stand At Chicago NEW YORK. Feb 9. Charges thai the attempt of the railroads to redue j wages are part of "a huge conspiracy H halng its birth In Wall street." were made here last night by Frank P. Wajsh. former chairman of the war labor board, prior to his departure for Chicago to represent tho unions be-foro be-foro the United States railway labor "This Is on attempt o drive wagei back to pre-war conditions," he said. "and they begin with tho laborers on the railroads. We hope to be allowed J to show that tho largo interests, all tied up in interlocking directorate and controlled by the important bank- ing groups in Wall street aro back of the proposition- I MAIN S1'K1N; SOME Will itl I "It must be very clear by this time, IH that the efforts of the roads to get back to pre-war conditions aro part of ia nationwide program, engineered through chambers of commerce and '.like employing institutions, it must be very cle&r that this is not a spon- jtuneous movement and that there njUSt lie main spring somewhere. That ' I mainspring is tic groups typified by Judge Gary and Mr. Morgan. dH S0OW l P "OPEN SHOP." i "There is a very real community ;H Of Interest here. Wo propose to show 'J jup among other things, this 'open shop' thing and bring it to a head a no out Into the open. That is the work tho railway unions have taken upon I themselves to-do." The appearance of Mr. Walsh In the cajjo follows a series of conference- i hero between labor officials, Including IB. M. Jewell, president ot the rail- jrc-ad department of the American Fed-oration Fed-oration of Ixibor; Paul Scharenberg 61 San Francisco, general secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of the Seamen's union, an I Victor OlandOTi secretary of the Ilh-nois Ilh-nois Federation of Labor. I "Before we get through, we ma have J- P. Morgan on the stand to tell somo of the things he knows about railroad operations, costs and prof-Its.'' prof-Its.'' Mr. Walsh said. |