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Show No Special Favors No, the railroads don't want special favors. They don't want government subsidies such as are given to their competitors, the waterways. wa-terways. They don't want an entire escape from Federal regulation, as is enjoyed by the trucks. I What they do want is fair treat -jment a transport policy that will ! let aU carriers compete under con-i con-i ditions of equality for business. If thnt is done, each wiU carry goods falling naturally into its field -each, in the long run, wiU prosper. It wiU mean a tremendous strengthening stren-gthening of every factor in one of our greatest industries transportation. transpor-tation. In normal times the rails employ 1,000,000 or so workers. They spend hundreds of millions for supplies They are leaders in communitj development. And a fair deal foi them is, simply, a fair deal for tht public. |