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Show LIVING WAGE OPINION DENOUNCED G & & & A A A A A A. 0. WHARTON ! HOLDS REPORT IS FALLACIOUS Men Merely Ask Wage to Make Decent Living, He Says POINTS OUT ERRORS' Claims Request for Impartial Impar-tial Investigation Was Ignored CHICAGO. Oct. 31. Majority members mem-bers of the United States riIroid labor board were condemned for tlie'lr; " liv ing wage" opinion In a statement ! made public today by A O Wharton, j one of the three members of the j board's labor group, whoso dissenting: op nion on the wage decision for main-1 J MB . wi rl; r brought rtirth l1,llvlng wigi n o.ndcr by thol ma;orlty members Sunday. Mr. Wharton declared the majority i opinion of the railroad and public groups was "fallacious" and con- i talnod "untruths." "I was not permitted to see tho majority statement before writing rny dissenting opinion." h said. "Now that I haw resd it I find flat it is fallacious and contains untruths un-truths In joh'c j.Uirs It pr--s-nta alleged arguments whic h on their fa?e ere lm possible. STIJyl TO GOOD. "The majority statement speaks i j a J20.000.000 increase It has given j the maintenance of way men. On tfeel bame method of figuring It cct tn.irj pay $50,000,000 In tho July 1. decision, de-cision, so the railroads are tlU S30.- . 000.000 to the good "It speaks of the ro?t of living, nut St does not explain how a laborer can support himself and faniify on $51 monthly. "It does not explain that the imitation imita-tion pay Increase 11 grantfd means only 16 cent! a day for each man. "It says nothing of the poor mon who live In shacks, box cars :ind box.vs I set up on four posts. ASKi:i FOR INVESTIGATION- j I openly urged the majority to have I an unbiased; committee sent lnt'j the sections where thes laborers live to j find out the truth about tuelr living. The majority tries t make the ! public believe thut It would hae laborers given pay on Which tboy i could "buy an automobile this year and an airplane next year. I asked only that a man be lv I ! pav that brings decern y with It; I Americans be enabled to Americans Amer-icans and enabled to lle in respec-I respec-I tability in their own environments and according to their own lights, not the environment of tas Sealtby. INJI STK E AXIiBGED "Ths majority says tho average j vi'ajjo lor these men on through roads, i.i 26 i i nts an hi'.ir and 37 o-nts on ' other lines. Then It Kay;i that tho 25 j cent men get more pay than the i cent men when considered In relation I to Using conditions In the respecti' j territories.' "Tho 2 5 cent m-n are mostly nifroes and Mexicans in the southcaat , ho the majority admits that. It fives this. Mexicans more pay than It givea native born Americans. How In tho! eyes of the Clod or man can the majority ma-jority justify that? "Tho majority does not distinguish between pauperism and opulence It pretends that what labor terms a living liv-ing wajre means opulence. Labor does not ask opulence. It asks only Amor-Iran Amor-Iran decency "The majority charged that the minority In a dissenting opinion last spring had 'advised the employes to strike agalast the decision of 'ho board" and had issued Incendiary' arguments to the employe- When re wished to make our position posi-tion clear publicly we wore refuse 1 the right of official publication The majority apparently wished to keep on pushing wages forever downward down-ward with no thought of the consequence. conse-quence. "It Is only because of the decided stand taken by labor that any kind of halt at all has been called " |