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...Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...
...Plumb, lawyer for the Railroad Brotherhoods and originator of the Plumb plan for the administration of the national railroad systems, will speak on the working of his plan before a meeting in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The meeting will be given under the auspices of the Graduates Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House, and is primarily intended for graduate students, but all members of the University are welcome...
...lawyer for Brotherhoods, and as shown by past performances, Mr. Plumb is deeply interested in the economic situation from the workingman's point of view...
...gives the laborer a voice in the control of his means of livlihood, and also claims he has in other ways satisfactorily solved many of the present-day labor difficulties. At the meeting today Mr. Plumb will try to answer the many objections that have been raised to his proposition and will emphasize its good points...
...Plumb is a lawyer who has made a name for himself by taking sides against corporations on several occasions. Largely on this account his services were engaged by the Railroad Brotherhoods. It was while he was in their service that he and his associates conceived the plan for railroad administration that at present bears his name. He has come to Boston for an indefinite period, probably about a week. While here he will fill many speaking engagements throughout Greater, Boston in the interest of his plan...