Draft Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman delivered at Chicago, Illinois to the American Trucking Association
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U.S.
When at the first session of this Congress transporta-
this to which
tion legislation was first broached, A Committee of Six,
wilned
Those
representing equally the railroads and labor, had made
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certain recommendations to the President concerning things
It believod
essential to remody the transportation ills of the
country
then rampant. The condition of the railroads undoubtedly
was then acute, but whether railroad problems, were more
other methods of theys
serious than those of it would be diffi- postation
cult to say. At any rate, we can say that the railroads'
problems were being brought to the attention of the public
more openly and constantly, and we know that the railroads
maintained effective publicity organizations to keep their
plight before the public. For these and other reasons
there was a quite prevalent opinion, which indeed found its
way into the subsequent hearings before the Committees on
Interstate Commerce of the Senate and of the House and on
to the floors of Congress in the debates on the bills, that
transportation legislation was quite apt to be legislation
for the sole benefit of the railroads, at the expense of
other forms of transportation, particularly the motor opera-
tors and the water carriers. While it is true that the
recommendations of the Committee of Six went more directly
to the railroad phase of the problem, there were many
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