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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1923)
Harding Makes Plea 1 for Railway Merger (Continued from Pane Seven.) Come ways than it would be in a re gion possessing fewer lines capable of taking over the public service. A majority of the people tributary to It will, by going a few milea farther, ret transportation from other roads. But there is no such solution of the problem for many extensive com munities now served by roada in financial distress. There are some roads—many of the •mailer ones in fact—whose continued operation is absolutely vital to many thousands of people, to considerable towns, to large areas of country, whose revenues simply can not pro vide financial facilities through earn ing, pending a considerable growth in community population, say nothing of earning any return whatever on capital invested. No legerdemain of court processes, receivers' certificates, or financial juggling, can save them. They must get more revenue or •tronger support or quit operating until the country is more largely developed. We shall contribute nothing to solving their problem by agreeing that they ought not to have been built so soon. Nor shall we help by talking about the wickedness of men who, years ago, exploited the public, Watered stocks, and did other repre hensible things. No panacea will be found in statistics proving that some other roads are earning more than they need, unless we find an equit able way to co-ordinate the activities of the strong roads, to develop the weak ones. The railways have become publicly sponsored institutions, and govern ment must find a way to avoid con fiscation, avoid starvation, and main tain service and a proper return upon capital which will assure them a growth commensurate with the coun try's development. We are all agreed that to abandon any important share of railroad mile age is inconceivable. We can not do it because people already dependent on the railroads would be ruined; and because, further, in a not very distant future we should be compelled by the Country's development to put them back, or their equivalent in capacity for service. They must be saved. Three Possible Solutions. There are just three possible ways to do it: 1. For the government to take and operate the weak roads, and thus bear all the loss without any of the profits of railroad management. 2. For the government to take all the railroads, convert them into one gigantic pool, and plunge Into the enormous responsibility thus in curred. In the present state of the public treasury and of tax burdens, and in the light of recent sad experi ence with government management, this is not to be considered. I be lieve it would be politically, socially and economically disastrous. 3. The plan of consolidations al ready outlined, bringing economies in operation, financial stability, ability to secure needed capital, adjusting rates and regulations to the necessi ties of the position, and preserving the real advantages of competition in service, while avoiding the evils of government ownership. As among these possibilities there can be little doubt of the public pref erence Tor the third program. It is not unjust to the strong roads, for the prosperity of these, like the pros perity of all industry, depends on keeping the country as a whole pros perous. Every mile of railroad trackage in the land helps to make business for every other mile. The transportation system must be con sidered as a unity, precisely as the ration itself must he considered. In this manner we will best help to in sure the credit of the railroads, assist them to new capital for future ex pansion, and insure, for the future, against the sort of wildcat and com petitive railroad construction which in the past has been responsible for giving us a great share of the track age which now proves economically unjustified. There is another particular reason which urges the early adoption of the larger system plan. It would bo a long step toward solving the problem of keeping the railroad equipment ad equate. Many financially weak roads are unable to provide all the rolling stock they need. Inadequacy of car service hindered the relief of the coal situation last winter, it denied the farmer a market when prices were most advantageous, and has impeded manufacturing industry time and again. It is fair to say the railways were helpless because they were fi nancially and otherwise unable to keep up with the demands for service. Prevailing practices further embar rassed the situation. Hoads inade quately equipped make up Wi< lr defi ciency by borrowing the cars of other roads. When a foreign car comes to one of theao parasite lines it Is not ' returned promptly, hut often is delib erately retained. The fy-ee movement of cars Is prevented; no company cnn lie certain of commanding even its nwn equipment when it is needed; sea sonal congestions or shortages of cars follow; and an unfair burden is im posed on those roads which sincerely try to meet the demands of this de moralised situation. To meet this condition, the proposal of a nation wide car pool has lately attracted much attention. The Pull man company fairly illustrates what is meant. This great corporation provides most of the railroads with certain kinds of cars, on a rental ba sis. Applying the same Idea to the provisions of freight cars, you have a rough notion of the proposed pool. It is urged by advocates that it would unify the rolling slock organization; make possible the enlistment of ade quate capital to provide for the weak and strong roads alike; place the en tire organization under a single cen tralized control which would insure equity to all roads and sections. There are others who Insist it would not cor rect the present evils, and would di vide responsibility and make regula tion and supervision more difficult. In any event, the system of consolidation would In effect clear up many diffi culties in car distribution. New I'liase of ((uestiun. We come now to an entirely differ ent phase of this transportation ques tion. Quite regardless of its cost, the continuity, the assurance of service at all times is absolutely necessary in transportation. Business that is done today depends on the certainty that the goods can be delivered tomorrow. If there is doubt about the trains run ning and the deliveries being made tomorrow, there will be unwillingness to buy ana sell today. All of which brings us to consideration of the re lations between the transportation or ganization and its employes. There is no other business, so far as I know, in which suspension of operations can produce such dis astrous results as in transportation. The vital importance of this service has brought many people to the con clusion that it ought to be possible absolutely to forbid and prevent rail road employes from striking. I do not believe It possible under our form of government to compel men to work against their will, and do not think it desirable under any form of govern ment. I say this, fully recollecting my vote in the senate in favor of the antistrike provision of the railroad act of 1920. That was not a provision denying men the right to strike. It was merely a requirement that before the men should strike or the em ployer should lock them out, both sides should submit their differences to a properly- constituted and impar tial tribunal, empowered to consider the facts, determine the merits, and make an award. It was believed that in the vast majority of cases this procedure would prevent lockouts end strikes; and, in view of the enormous loss to the carriers, to'their employes, and to the public resulting from strikes, I profoundly regret that it should not have been possible to give the plan a fair trial. When I say a fair trial, I mean a trial under conditions fully and frankly acceptable to all Interests. I do not believe that In such a sit uation a fair trial Is possible unless both rides have absolute confidence in the fairness of the tribunal and are sincerely willing to accept Its ver dict. If human wisdom shall ever be capable of setting up such a tribunal as that, and of Inspiring both sides of the controversy with complete con fidence In it, we will have traveled a long way toward industrial peace. Personally, I have confidence that the thing is possible. I believe so firmly In the underlying common sense of both organized industry and organized labor, and in the fairness tow-ard both on the part of the great public on which both of them are finally dependent, that I believe at last It will be possible to arrive at settlement of industrial disputes in public services by sucn a method. 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