Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-09-21 | Page 1 | Big Bull Mooser Praises Eight Hour Law

BIG BULL PRAISES JIG EIG 1 HOUR LAW I Victor Murdock of Kansas Replies to Hughes' Hughes Criticisms NEW YORK Sept 21 Vic Vic Victor tor tar Murdock editor of the tile Wichita Wichita Vich ita Kansas Eagle and a pioneer of the Progressive movement in inthe inthe inthe the West has declared unqualifiedly in favor of President Wilsons Wilson's course in averting a nation wide railroad railroad rail raU- road strike I Referring to Candidate Highes' Highes opposition to the eight hour r bill and his insistence that arbitration should have been compelled Murdock's Murdocks Murdocks Murdock's Murdocks Murdock's Mur- Mur docks dock's newspaper says in part But ButI Mr I. Hughes like the Republican newspapers failed to point out how this could have e been done The railroad railroad rail raU- road men took the position that the hour eight-hour day was not They refused flatly to arbitrate Under Under tinder Un Un- der the circumstances then unless the hour eight-hour day was granted a strike would have been inevitable Would Mr Hughes have preferred a astrike astrike astrike strike with its inevitable burnings and disorder its bloodshed and prostration of business its stirring of class hatreds hatreds hatreds ha ha- and suffering of millions of people people peo peo- pie to the settlement that Wilson effected For the strike of 1894 1594 gives a faint idea of what might have been expected in 1916 if the president following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing Mr Cleveland's precedent had attempted to settle it by force The great mass of people will un undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un- un feel that Mr Wilson was wiser In his generation that Mr Cleveland or orThan orthan orthan Than Mr Hughes The Adamson bill does not effect a permanent settlement Further measures are necessary anc and should be adopted as the president has recommended As to the surrender of the president of the demand for an hour eight-hour day Progressives demanded that measure of social Justice four years ago and 11 It cert certainly ill becomes anyone anyone- who supported sup- sup ported that platform to rail at the president for helping to secure for the railroad men a measure so manifestly Just to labor