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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withdrawn ; and in relation to the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.
In India there will be set
up a station capable of direct communication
with England, South
Africa and Australia.
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% 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."
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for promoting general reform
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standard of human relationship,"
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