Show j i A Fount of Misinformation ASSUMING A A that Congressman Mays las him him- I self understands the and purpose e purport pur- pur J. J port of ot the Adamson hour eight-hour law Jaw it is I plain h hp Is resolved that tho those e among his I t constituents who depend upon him for In Information In- In 1 1 formation shall be given only tion I The he congressman has hns returned from Washington where h he voted against Utah industry at c each ch opportunity given him bun ha has been Interviewed b by tho newspapers and has said the thc following concerning tho the hour eight-hour law I am heartily in favor of or tho the eight- eight tf hour hour- da day at least insofar as th the men connected with railway traffic are conI concerned con con- corned I believe that it will wm be only a a. I question of or time until pr practically all tho the workers will bo be given glyen sea n hour eight 1 d day The farm ma may mar bo be an exception to toI I the rule There Thero the tho workers are arc out In Inthe I the open and must be governed largely by circumstances and there thero is 18 no re responsibility responsibility re- re responsibility so far as the safety of ot the public Is concerned Wherever the I safety fety of or the pu public Is la concerned it is 18 I imperative that every precaution be taken that is within reason Congressman Mays' Mays picture of tho Adamson Adamson Adam Adam- son sori hour eight Jaw law i f 1 of course not tho the true one He lIe conceives a as a law Jaw which automatically takes trainmen from their trains and engineers from their I engines at tho the close of or eight hours of ot work because o the men can work no longer than eight hours hout with the efficiency that hat guarantees safety to the passengers Nothing Noth Noth- big ing could be further from the meaning of I the tho law or its results Passenger trainmen men as everybody Is well aware ware work Worle In mo t 2 c. c Games cases leas leS than eight hours and have done doneso BO so o for tor years Not ono one of ot thc them was interested inter inter- I sted ested In the the proposed strike and had mado made madeI I no demands upon the railroads A reading of ot the the- text of ot the tho Adamson law discloses t clores precisely sc 1 what it is 18 It 1 Is a wage measure t. t that makes an an ax hour eight-hour day the I for br the basis bast calculation of ot wages and not notI I the limitation of ot work It IL merely provides J r that beginning December 1 1916 eight hours shall hail In contracts for labor and t ser service er- er vice be bo deemed a a. days day's work and the measure measure meas incas ure or standard of ot a days day's work for th tho purpose purpose pur pur- pose pos of reckoning compensation for lor service of all employees who are aro now or may hore- hore after be employed by bS- any railroad etc N No- No In rn In the the- law Jaw does docs It that t trainmen train train- nt n- n t men shall cease work ork n. at the end of eight U I hours Jt it bur provides that the themo same mo rate rato or of wages shall be h paid for COl ei eight ht hours houm that has been paid for ten hours heretofore and that the computation of ot overtime shall begin begin begin be be- gin at the thc end of oC the hour eight period Instead instead In- In stead of or the end of or the tho ten-hour ten Trainmen will work vork as man many manh hou hours as heretofore heretofore heretofore here here- but will get lct from twenty to twenty twenty- five rive per cent more mora pay for or it ft Manifest Manifestly it is worse ors than t Idle to attempt nt- nt il at-il tempt to describe the lio hour r law as legislation for Cor tho raf safety t ty of Qt the public An Any effort at deceiving the tho public merits a term of or stron stronger er condemnation than titan Idle Itis It ItIs ItIs Is no less leEs than a labored attempt to excuse c a. a a Ill considered dangerous bit of or political political po po- po- po buncombe by the pretense that thereal tho the real purpose was to protect tho the public The Iho same ame sort of ot legislation might as well ap apply apply apply ap- ap ply to the farm form which Congressman man Mays ays exempts for the thc railroad trainmen will no nomore nomore nomore more cease work at the tho end of eight hou hours when there Is work to be done one than would the tho farmer Senator one of tho the ablest of or orthe the Senate Senate Democrats denounced on tho the floor of that eh chamber the thc practice of or calling the Adam Adamson on law an el hour eight hour ht-hour law He lie said said he was heartily In favor Cavor of an eight eight- hour work day but that the Adam Adamson on law did not establish or pretend to establish an anel el hour eight ht hout da day Then ho lie Introduced an amendment conferring upon the Interstate Commerce commission the power to enforce an actual hour eight-hour work-day work on the railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads of or the United States and it was was vas voted down don It i Is fg Impo impossible sIble to deduce from rom this circumstance other than that Congress understood understood understood un un- un- un It was not establishing an actual hout hour da day for trainmen and had no IntentIon Intention in intention In- In of or doing so IThe oil I The Thc test of ot efficiency in the office of or tho the Democratic count county clerk seems to he be polli- polli cal loyalty to the boss That Idea is refreshing re refreshing re- re freshing but not strictly new because ti U has been tho the standard of service since the fusion ruslon administration took toole control of county count county coun coun- t ty affairs |