COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

ROBERT L. DOUGHTON, North Carolina, Chairman

THOMAS H. CULLEN, New York
CHRISTOPHER D. SULLIVAN, New York
MORGAN G. SANDERS, Texas

JOHN W. MCCORMACK, Massachusetts
DAVID J. LEWIS, Maryland
FRED M. VINSON, Kentucky
JERE COOPER, Tennessee

JOHN W. BOEHNE, JR., Indiana
CLAUDE A. FULLER, Arkansas
WESLEY E. DISNEY, Oklahoma
ARTHUR P. LAMNECK, Ohio
FRANK H. BUCK, California
RICHARD M. DUNCAN, Missouri
CHESTER THOMPSON, Illinois
JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan
A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, Virginia
OTHA D. WEARIN, Iowa

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ALLEN T. TREADWAY, Massachusetts
FRANK CROWTHER, New York
HAROLD KNUTSON, Minnesota
DANIEL A. REED, New York
ROY O. WOODRUFF, Michigan
THOMAS A. JENKINS, Ohio
LLOYD THURSTON, Iowa

TOM P. BUMGARDNER, Clerk

CONTENTS

Statements of-

George M. Harrison, president, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks;

chairman of the Railway Labor Executives' Association__.

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R. V. Fletcher, representing the Association of American Railroads_-

Arthur H. Kent, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General

Counsel, Department of the Treasury.

Carter Fort, general solicitor, Association of American Railroads_-.

Charles M. Hay, attorney, St. Louis, Mo..

Murray W. Latimer, Chairman, Railroad Retirement Board----

In