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Show ,W. G. LEE A TRIGHT, NEW GRAND MASTER OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY TRAINMEN, AND P. H. MOR-RISSEY, MOR-RISSEY, WHO RESIGNED ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, AT LEFT. For 3 years P. H. Morrlssey as grand master of tho Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has been a big factor fac-tor In all railway labor disputes and Ills equitable decisions have made him ' far-famed. On New ear's day he rc-.''elgned rc-.''elgned to become the first president of . the new American Railroad Employes' and Investors' association, a national organisation which Is an offshoot of tho Brothorbood. Mr. Morrlssey Is succeeded suc-ceeded by W- G. Lee, the present vice grand master. Morrlssey during 'nls admlnlstra-, admlnlstra-, tlon, built up the Brotherhood from a . Etruggllng membership of 12,000 to i 102,000 and has earned toe reputation ' "ot being one of the most broad-binded labor leaders in the country. ' The new American Railroad Employes Em-ployes and Investors' association is 'said to "have the backing of half a dozen of. the largest railroad corporations corpora-tions of the country. Morrlssey's sal-ary sal-ary is sfiid to be $15,000 a year. - "The new organization is not to be used for political purposes," Morrlssey says. "It is not to take part in controversies con-troversies between railroad officials and employes, olther. : "It Is to provide for more active cooperation co-operation between employes and investors. in-vestors. Their Interests are the same. Some of its objects are: "To encourage friendly public feel ing toward the railroads; to keep watch of railroad legislation, and to secure se-cure fair returns to capital aud labor. "Investors and employes are to have equal voice. There is need of co-operation between them. They may quarrel as to relative portions of the earnings earn-ings due them. But they cannot quarrel quar-rel in their rc-l.Uan-e lo the unjust reducing re-ducing of rates end o.her limitations which in the end hurt employes more than Inventors. "Hit the railroads and hurt the rich' i3 the cry. And every time the railroads are hit, 1,500,000 railroad cm- ployes are hit." . J W. G. Lee, for years vice grand mas- ! ter of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who has succeeded P. H. Morriscey as grand master, has come up from the bottom. He was a brake-man brake-man 30 years ago. Loe began his railroad career on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at Emporia, Em-poria, Kan., in 1S79 He was a brake-man brake-man and switchman on various roads in the southwest until 1891, when ne became a freight conductor on tho UniCn PaciCc. In 1905 he was elected vice grand master of the tralDuifn at the Ga'eaburg eomer.ticn f the order, or-der, of which he had been a member since 1800. The new grand master has ainxvt as great a'rcputatlon as a union leader as Morrlssey. |