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PRINTING OF WALSH REPORT NOW UP CONGRESS BOSSES SAY "DON'T" TO Maybe the Walsh report will be printed And maybe it won't It's up to congress now. Action on a mo tion of Cong. David Lewis to print 10,000 copies of all testimony and 200,000 copies of the commission re port is expected next week. If it's printed it will show in de tailed masses of figures and facts the wages and working conditions of the Pullman Co., Armour & Co., the Donnelly Printing Co. and other Chi cago exploiters who were brought to the witness stand. It will be the first authentic gov ernment record of such statements as the one by John Fitzpatrick that the Hearst newspapers supplied guns to ex-convicts during the newspaper strike or that all Pullman conductors are forced to buy their uniforms from Marshall Field & .Co., because the Field estate is an owner of the Pull man Co. A campaign of opposition to the printing of the report is crackling and sputtering. Illinois Manufactur ers' ass'n, through the Manufactur ers' News, has protested in nearly every issue for three months against it The National Ass'n of Manufac turers in American Industries says this week the new Walsh committee is a "national danger." That the Walsh bunch may win some of their points is shown in this printed re gret: "Politicians as a rule are notable cowards when it comes to facing de mands made by labor unions and a threat of loss of votes frequently frightens them into doing things their better conscience condemns. It was such a scare that forced them to pass the Clayton act." Ohio Manufacturers' ass'n is send ing out Bulletin 32 calling the Walsh committee "abortive" and spilling stuff like this: "So now we have an organization .Of notoriety seekers dilettante je-. formers, anarchists, agitators, he women and she-men, dreamers of dreams and dreamers of loot, for the purpose of haranguing and raising Cain generally with the Walsh report as the basis for their operations and the gospel for their propaganda." What the Walsh committee wants is partly stated in this, from Amer ican Industries: "One demand is a law taking away from the courts the power to declare constitutional enactments unconstitutional, especially when such enactments have anything to do with labor in any form. Another is that all supplies needed by the government, including vessels of war, munitions, guns, be made in govern ment plants. A third is the organi zation and arming of a well-drilled army of laborfi and, fourth, that nei ther the regular army nor the nation al guard shall ever be used against striking labor unions." o o .FORECASTS GOVERNMENT CON TROL OF RAILROADS Washington, Dec. 28. Probability of government ownership of railroads in all Americas was forecasted today by Charles Prouty, director of valua tion of interstate commerce commis sion, before transportation section of Pan-American scientific congress. "The return of money to private investors in public utilities in the fu ture," Prouty said, "must be much in excess of the rate at which the gov ernment itself could borrow the mo ney for providing the same utilities, and the question may finally become: 'Can the people afford to regulate their utilities, or it is better that the government furnish the service first hand?' " Opposing leaders of Republican and Democratic factions in state in vited to conference of Legislative Voters' League. -New lawsjilannedj ijdnvjtrfi iftcwSiJiCil