I believe the public has no realization of the dangers to the people who ride on the railroads in having mens wages held down to this extent. I am in favor of abolishing the Labor Board because. instead of helping to protect the public on this question of maintenanceofway employees wages by at least leaving them where they were. at about $85 to $90 a month. they have deliberately lowered them below the subsistence level of the people of the country. We have adopted stringent immigration laws and I voted in favor of them. We have raised the salaries of the clerks of the Government by the millions and I voted in favor of that. But here is a Government agency. the Railway Labor Board. that lowers the wages of men who are already receiving wages far below what was found to be the subsistence level and refuses to put those wages back to a decent living basis.
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