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ROADS STAND BY LOYAL EMPLOYEES Tell President Harding Old ane New Men Must Be Proteoted in Strike Settlement. NOT A MATTER OF CHOICE Faithful Employees Have Both Legal and Moral Rights to Seniority and Other Benefits. New York.?The keynote of the re ply made by railway executives repre senting more than 180 Class 1 Hall roads of the United States to the prop osltlon of President Harding, that "oil strikers bo returned to their work anc their former positions with senlorltj and other rights unimpaired," lies In the last pnrngraph from their replj to the President as follows: "It Is submitted that the striking former employees cannot be given preference to employees at present In the service without doing violence to overy principle of right and justice involved in this matter, and without the grossest breach of faith on the part of the railroads to the men at present in tlielr service. "Under these circumstances. It becomes apparent that the railroads cannot consider any settlement of the present strike which does not provide protection in their present employment both to the loyal employees who remained In the service and to the new employees entering It." The executives had accepted the first two conditions proposed by the President, namely, that both employers and employees accept the decisions of the I-ahor Board, and that all law suits growing out of the strike be withdrawn ; and in relation to the third condition spoke not only as i(uuil'u auuvf, mil msii as iouows: Agree With the President "The railroad executives and managers agree entirely with the President's statement in Ids letter that 'It Is wholly unthinkable that the Railroad Labor Hoard can be made rt useful agency of th?* Government In maintaining industrial peace In the railway service unless employers and workers are both prompt and Unquestioning in their acceptance of Its decisions.' "Many men in the service refused to Join the strike and in so doing were assured of the seniority rights accruing to them and of the permanence of their positions. On snme-importunt lines 50 per cent or more refused to join the strike. To these old loyal employees have lteen added thousands of new men who were employed and could be secured only u|tou a definite promise that their services would be retained regardless of the settlement of the strike, with all the rights appertaining to such employment. Including that of seniority under the working rules and regulations previously approved by the ltnllroad Labor Bourd. "Just the Opposite Effect" HWe especially point out that a rothe service and fo the new men wno accepted Service of the rights of seniority Incident to their employment would have Just the opposite effect to that desired by the President, and would most ser >usly discredit the Labor Board. "The hoard Itself pre'serlhed the rules of seniority under which the men referral to have secured their seniority rights, and the railroad companies have neither the legal nor moral right to deprive these men of those rights. By public utterances since the strike began the board lias recognized and emphasized these rights, and to deny them now would, instead of upholding the authority of the Labor Board, overthrow Its rules and discredit its authority. "The Chairman of the Labor Board at the time the strike was called made the following public statement: "Upon one question the striking employees should not be deceived. Their leader has said that the strikers are no longer employees of the railways. and they have thus automatically abandoned all the rights they possess under their agreements and tinrlftr tho of thp hnnVtl In eluding their seniority. This is not the board's action. It Is their own. "Many carriers are giving their former employees the opportunity to reenter the service within a limited ' time. It must be understood now that men who remained in the service and those who are now entering It will have rights of seniority that the board could not Ignore." What the Proposed Plan Means "It must ho understood that any proposal that employees now on strike shall be permitted to return to the service, without impairment to their seniority, is merely another way of suggesting that those men who took employment in this crisis in good faith, relying on the promises of the rallroads to protect them in their positions, these promises being Justified by the authoritative utterances of the Labor Board, and thus have made possible the continued operation of the railroads, shall now he sacrificed In favor of men n<>w on strike, who not only brought about the crisis, but, by their own action and declaration, are no longer employees of the railways, under the Jurisdiction of the United States Railroad Labor Hoard, or subject to the applicntion of the Transportation a.ct. "In addition to the necessity of upholding the Labor Hoard, and maintaining the pledges made by the raili roads to the men now at work, there Is the practical effect on the supervisory oflicers of a violation of the pledges they were authorized to make, Their discouragement and demoralize1 tlon would he far more disastrous thai this or any other strike." ^ The Bolshevik leaders have psfl served the groat. w? . i.i. Kremlin, of Moscow, almost withou change, aa a reminder of "the lavisl wealth and the pomp and splendor o the old regime." Fishermen of the Norwegian coas are catching more mackerel than hai ever been caught in that section Fishing smacks are loaded to th water's edge with 10,000 macker< each. They are retailing at two cent each, and in quantities for less tha a cent. The fish are unusually large Lord Sfiaw Addresses Bar Association I , San Francisco, Calii., Aug. 9 (By the Associated Press).?A plea that the "members of the Anglo-American ' race niust be comrades forever," was made tonight at the convention of the American Bar association by the lit Hon. Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, representative of the bar of Great Britain at the sessions. ; Lord Shnw based his plea for comradeship on "a common loyalty tc ( law" and appealed for the abolition of the "ancient grudge." He paid high tribute to a number of American statesmen, including Lincoln, Washington, President Harding, Theodore . Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and characterized Elihu Hoot as "the Grotius of America." The call for unity came at the end I of a lengthy address in which the I English barrister discussed many r technical points of laws which the l nations observed in common. He f touched briefly on the breakdown of Russia and ndvised the legal profession in this country to "keep in touch with the ground of common sense." ..uinaiMt.t n?s Dieeaing uml stricken/' said Lord Shaw. The hand of war and the hand of the doctrinaire who knows not justice lie like a curse. We think of the union of the FJnglish speaking race, not for its own sake, but for the service that lies to its har.d?to staunch wounds, to redress wrongs, to remove oppressions, and teach men a new and better way i for body and soul. i "We men of the Anglo-American race must be comrades forever. I know no plainer call to the comradeship of righteousness than a common loyalty to law. My appeal to you is 1 that the ancient grudge should go for1 ever, and that the ancient comradeship should be renewed and repledged forever. I "Do not think we on the other side I are not aware of and sympathetic with [ you in those constitutional difficulties j with which you are confronted. We *i know the fulmination of Jefferson j against alliances, we know the power j of the written constitution, not only I your minds but most deservedly over ! your hearts. It will be the highest. task of your statesmanship to evolve out of the citizenship of America something which honoring and con! serving it, will yet give it a lofty place ; in the citizenshp of the world. "Watch that moving, jostling, elbowing, combatant crowd which we call civilization. There is a figure there bigger, more upstanding, more commanding than the others. More and more he seems to control the crowd, suppressing confusing, regulating traffic, making the rough places plain and every place safe; and his hand is swift and heavy on crime and on the sneak and tender and helpful to the weak and the struggling and the cpi-pmaei. ** ts-Law. "At this hour, after the great war, even as the smoke smell of blood clear away, law resumes -its sway, planting anew the standards ol" legality human and divine. "I reckon the conference of Wash- 1 ington to have been greater than a conference, and the five power naval 1 agreement and the four power pact for the Pacific ocean, the one with its ' real, instant, r.nd definite limitation cf armaments, the other turning possibly this great ocean into a Pacific reserve. I reckon these things to bo a sensible mitigation of the fears of humanity, a sensible contribution .to the pence and progress of mankind We heartily bear in mind the services Mid achievements of America in the world cause, and the firm and practical statesmanship of its president and recretary of state. "The best amcngsl you probably look back to the later fifties and the early sixties?that trying ordeal for your citizenship. Then it was that i the law of status and the law of the | constitution had to be co-ordinated, and that under the high planes of lib! erty and the rights of man. Lowell puts the old view which the older legality could a'ways defend; 'Here I stand on the constitution, by thunder. "These were defensible propositions in the mouth of a mere lawyer, a mere constitutionalist, a mere politician, ! end Lincoln was patient with them. But when to yield to them would have been to rive in twain the American Commonwealth, then his heart, ahvnys true, cleared his vision, and he seemed to reason that man was more than 1 constitutions; that the law was made for man and no man for the law. "When every citizen can truly feel that the law can be appealed to as his , inena, men strength and healing i i come into the body politic and the ! function of law, even on the every-day 1 level of individual disputes and of differences between man and man, add.; to the healthy sense of independence which is the essentinl of progress. "But whenever men, decent men, not rebels or criminals, cower beneath i the law, being afraid of its inequality, saying to themselves 'the world is not 1 my friend, nor the world's law' th?>r. i they become the starved apothecaries of society and nre tempted to meanJ nesses and evil ways/ And that society is rotten where one citizen is ^ r gainst another can overpower him or undermine him by low wielded with i. en uneven hand. 1 "From every dsorganized quarter of f the globe this rich land becomes a refuge in which, to its astonishment, j right becomes a real possession, mainit tained unfalteringly between the high., s est and the lowest, the richest and thi i. poorest, and the appeal to 'nw is it. e self a right universal, si ''When the superior in position, in s influence, in number, in adherents or n in rank takes the law into his own !. hnnds, then the insistence of the dom mation of force over reason is i promptly illustrated, and the private wronc calls aloud for legal redress. "A new fear is at the heart cf mank.nd ut this hour. It is connected with the advance of science. Never since the world begat; had force, brutulity and anarchy 3uch an opportunity. Wax,, with all its sacrifice, has not been too dear if it opens the eyes j of mankipd to the appalJiBg gravity cf continuing in the worship of force and of further defying the governance j of reason. A new era opens to man-; kind. "If you conceive of Internationa' law as binding all nations, then inter-1 national law, I speak it with sorrow but conviction, international law is in runs. Force under imniorul or nonmeral control can, we know, undo and has undone, the humanes conventions of the ages. And a destruction can now be accomplished in the course of minutes whicli will overthrow the achievements of mankind built up in the course of centuries. The earth is affrighted. "Unless reason and the arbitrament of justice be icasserted on the earth, will hide beneath the ground on which the ruins of human happiness have been overthrown." Famous Bank of England To Have Better Quarters London, Aug. 11.?The long projected rebuilding of the Bank ol' England wil start almost immediately, the Daily Express understands. A meeting of the directors is to be held soon to make the necessary iinancia' arrangements. It is understood that the plans to he adopted are those of Herbert Baker, the architect who collaborated with Sir Edwin Lutyens for the new capitol at Delhi. Air. Baker was also the designer of the South African government's administrative buildings at Pretoria, and of the catbedinls at Capetown, Pretoria and Salisbury (Rhodesia), and the Cecil Rhodes memorial on Table Mountain. The staff of the Bank of England is now double what it was shortly before the war, largely owing to the vast growth of the national debt, and the existing accommodations are utterly inadequate. Sections of the stuff have been working for a long time at various places in the vicinity ot the bank. A special committee of the directors, including Cecil Lubbock, has been considering alternative schemes for the rebuilding. The idea of razing the whole of the existing one-story building to the ground was, it is un derstood, abandoned, partly on senti mental grounds and partly because of the difficulties of obtaining accom modation for the staff during the reconstruction. The present proposal is to ''retain the outer wall, - which abuts on Threadneedle street, St. Bartholomews Lane, Lothbury and Princess street. This wall, which entirely surrounds the site of between three and four acres, was erected front the designs of Sir John Seames about 130 years ago, shortly after the Gordon Riots, when the bank clerks, sword and pistol in hand, defended the bank against a furious mob. The wall is in the classie Grecian style, and in some places is 40 feei high. Security demanded that it have no windows and the architect achieved the difficult task of making the wall look ornamental by masking it with Corinthian columns and blank windows. The new building will rise within the wall to a height of 70 or 80 feet above it, and will thus be nearly 120 feet in height. Britain to Build Powerful Radio Station London, Aug. 11.?Tho government will erect in England a wireless station powerful enough to provide direct commercial communication with India, South Africa and Australia, Postmaster-General Kellaway announces. 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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a fair trial i now. | Coolidge Addresses | % Association I i Shu Frjuwifli^ AfW^ltf^Viefi-Presulent fnTili|l|)| jfirlililMliif rtht 1*1 ni' i | ican Bar mtlfrHnf Jills tiiniffrf de-. blared, "it hi timenpfranent the; rppeul to law. wbJpi teJirtUfld* with) an appeal to th^Mrit ot'th* -peoplc, I which is unlimiloiki' "No reliance upm the uafeonal char-; aeter has ever men betrayed," the, vice-president asserted, "But our, countrymen must Semember.that they l ave and can have no dependence save themselves. Ojr institutions are their institutions. Our government is their government. Our laws are their laws. Ii is for them to enforce, supjiort and obey. 11' in this they fail,there arrj none who cau succeed." Assert ins - thfct th<* supreme court "has stood as th? guardian and protector of our form of government, the guarantee of the perpetuity of the constitution, and above all the great champion of the.freedom.and the liberty of the people," Mr. CffOlidge, referring - > thg pippeeat't<r-give congress power., to' make Atdidjby reenrctmer.t a law declared unqonstitutionnl by the supreme'courty-declared "Such a in iLiiafrin woufcjhnmke the congress finally-supreme.. In the last resort its powers practically would be uni.iiui d, Hd?'Wevkl be to do away with the great main principle of our written constitution, which regards the people as sovereign,.and the government- as tneir agent, *nd would 4 then make thc legislative body sov- 4 oreign and the people its subjects. It would, to an extent, substitute for the * will of the people, definitely and per- ^ mnnently expressed in their fritten ? constitution the changing and uncer- 4 tain will of the congress. That would 4 radically alter our form of government and take from it its chief guar- 4 antee of freedom." 4 Citing the child labor law decision, ? the vice president pointed out that 4 "should tne people desire to have the ^ congress pass laws relating to that over which they have not yet granted to it any jurisdiction-, the way is open 4 and plain to proceed " by amending ? the constitution. 4 Citing thc "growing multiplicity of ^ laws," which he ascribed pavtly to "the increasing complexity of advancing civilization*' and in part tu "the attempt to raise the moral stand- ? crd of society by legislation," he said the "spirit of reform is altogether en- < couraging" but" there needs to be a ^ better understanding of the province of legislative and judicial action" and a "wider comprehension of the limitations of the law." "There exists, and must always exist," he said, "the righteous authority of the state. That is the sole source of the liberty of the individual, but it does not mean an inquisitive and officious intermeddling by attempted government action ,he affairs of , the people. Th?cp-~ kl 'justification for public interference with purely private concern?." 4 Mr. Coolidg$ compared the trend 4 "for the better r?;irfc of n rent,in- 4 which "the early amendments were all in diminution of the power of the government and declaratory of an enlarged sovereignty of the people," and the movement "in the opposite direction" during "the pn?t 30 years" from the interstate commerce act of the late eighties to the recently enacted maternity aid law. "This has not been accomplished without, what is virtually a change in the form, and actually a change in lhc process, of our government," he declared, adding that it had proceedc d "on the theory that it would be for the public benefit to have government, to a greater degret. the direct action of the people." In this change, he said, "some of the stabilizing safeguards" originally established "have been weakened" and "the representative element has been diminished and the democratic element has been increased, but it is still constitutional government." "It is not sufficient to secure legislation" for promoting general reform or reflecting "the raising of the general standard of human relationship," he continued, "and leave it to go alone." A "renewed and enlarged determination to secure the observance r.nd enforcement of the law, is required, he declared. "TKoi'A no? KA Asswav; van vc iiu pcrjicv t LUIIU U J 11 personal conduct by national legisla tion," he added. "The people cannot < divest themselves of their really great 4 burdens by undertaking to provide 4 they shall hereafter be borne by the government." 4 4 A professor says the natural way 4 for man to walk is on ull fours. This ^ may be propaganda put out by shoe J manufacturers. ? Reading News- ' A IIIICI9. 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