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...Esch-Cummings law provides that disputes between railroads and their employees shall be settled by representatives of each, meeting together. Where the competency of the representatives of the workers is doubted, the Railroad Labor Board provides electoral rules. This fact was the origin of the present controversy...
...less of unification among all shades of Democrats, and appointed Mr. Adams, a "mild Conservative." The new Senator, a Yale graduate, a lawyer, during the war a member of the Judge Advocate's department, announced his policies: 1) Private ownership of the railroads. 2) Some modification of the Esch-Cummins railroad law. 3) Enforcement of prohibition. 4) Adequate military and naval defense. 5) Opposition to La Follette's attitude in foreign affairs. 6) United States participation in the World Court. His appointment is good till the Fall of 1924, when an election will be held to fill Senator...
...Senator will doubtless declare for repeal of the Esch-Cummins Act, whereas President Harding will probably advocate consolidation of the railroads under...
...hand are the railways themselves, who want to continue operation under the Esch-Cummins Law of 1920. On another hand are farmers and shippers in general, clamoring for lower freight rates. From still another quarter the railroad workers are prepared to demand any arrangement to the advantage of the workers-government ownership, if practical. Then there is the public- mutely desirous of the best possible service; the La Follette-Brookhart radical group in Congress-prepared to push attempts for drastic changes...
...ignore political attacks, and devote their energies to improving the facilities of transportation. In this connection, the Association declared itself in favor of a continuation under the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920. This means that, by and large, the roads are content with present railroad legislation?so much attacked in political quarters...