Interstate Commerce on Railroads Author:United States Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I should like to be permitted to have this statement of Mr. Easley's incorporated in your record. The Chairman. Was that incorporated in the Senate hearings, ... more »Mr. Gompers? Mr. Gompers. In the original hearings. The Chairman. Nevertheless, you wish to have it put in here? Mr. Gompers. If it is already printed in the hearings, I have no desire to burden your record. The Chairman. If you wanted to illustrate your remarks, just identify it and let it go in along with your statement. (The paper referred to follows:) THE CANADIAN COMPULSORY INVESTIGATION ACT IS IT A SUCCESS IN CANADA, AND DOES IT IIOTJ) ANY PROM1SK AS A WAY OUT TO THE UNITED STATES? In the present controversy over the Canadian compulsory investigation act, which act Congress is considering as a means, to quote its advocates, for preventing a recurrence of a threatened railway tie-up in this country, there are several very important points generally overlooked. First and most important, it will not prevent a recurrence at all; it was not intended to prohibit strikes, and it does not prevent them in Canada. It is only intended to delay them until after n hoard has heard both sides of the issue and made a public recommendation. Then either side or both sides, which has happened in Canada time and again, can go ahead and fight it out. This fact can be easily ascertained by examining the recent report of the conciliation board to the labor department of Canada, which purports to give the history of every case that has come before the board since the enactment of the law, growing out of disputes in the railway, municipal, utility, and mining interests of Canada and their employees, mining being classed as a public utility in the law. However strongly one may feel that the paramountcy of the pub...« less