Show I BROTHERHOOD CHIEF IN DARK ARK DARKAS I AS TO TIE THE ADAMSON ACT MEANING f Y Ye e r KNOW 1 STONE ADMITS r i 3 J 1 r rry t Sad 1 ry ead ad of Railway Employees Employees' f Declares De Og Organization ra uza Lion Officially clans clares Too Soon to Tel Tell Effects Affects ff I i REPLIES REP REPLIES TO INQUIRIES V Evidences n Multiply Th That a t Railroad Operatives Have e 1 Been Handed Le Legislation Which di Means Leans Little T FTC EW YORK TonK 0 N. N T T. Oct Warre arren Warren n NEW ma So Stono Stone grand chief engineer o otho of ot N JN tho Brotherhood of ot Locomotive 1 t- t Engineer and ono of or tho the four men chiefly responsible responsible for driving the them m law through h Congress under Adamson of ot ft a nation Wido up tlc of or the then threat has mado formal admission n- n ds the tho grand seal senIor of tho the brotherhood over officers and members that hola ho to 1 nil all Its Us giVe sl definite la 11 nt t in position to an any information Station about the Ad Adamson imson law beCAUse 5 ti we do not know yet yot ot Just what law Jaw means Ho lie ma made e this admission the i n In a n circular reproduced horo- horo with lion sion with addressed to tho the officers and members timbers of all divisions and to the of ot otan n and treasurers secretary-treasurers cl an n general central committees of 01 adjustment b circular was dated at Cleveland he OhIo obio October 10 1916 1310 It H was vas signed I by Mr air Stone Slone as grand chief en engineer and nA by Assistant Grand Chiefs Cadle Will Bur Burgess S Kennedy edy d Corrigan Griffins Griffins' and Mont Montgomery omen We NSe are receiving receIving- a number of or let- let tern tUlI tir requesting definite Information ro- ro j arding the application of or tho the Adam Adam- tho the circular law eon BOO hour eight law says sas r but Wye wo aro not f In n position to give I J Oy aby definite Information on this subi sub- sub subI I l jest i cL because be we db not know Just what 1 9 th the 13 law last means Wo 0 ar are arp- however from rom tUne time im to time furnishing the general chairmen with such information as Is IsI obtainable In the matter o The DIe da day before Mr h Stone and hief his hie f colleagues signed this circular Charles Charlos CharlesF F g F Hushes Hughes discussed tho the Adamson law lawIn I In a speech at Newark X J J. J Hasty Is likely to earI carry with It unwelcome surprises ho said If It If tight eight hours Is to bo be 1 a measure or 01 standard of or a days day's work for or the purr purT pur- pur r T pose O Oro C of or reckoning tho the compensation Ion l to tol be I plait plad la l. l how are arc those mon men left 1 complete tho the prescribed number ot miles in less than eight hours hours' rf r JaTo they ther any assurance If It they tho areto aro are Ito to be paid under this bill on a a. basis lot or of hours bours that the they will bo be paid on a n i basis buls of oC miles whoa when they work worle less than eight hours hours' And how hose will a n af f rigid hour eight-hour basis of at l' l pay a affect neot i I present guaranties guaranties' There Is 15 much foot for thought In this litis legislation j 7 rot LOt ont only on the tho part of ot those for whom 1 It does docs not provide but also on tho the thoI I part of ot those to whom It expressly v t Kit Is fa apparent from the tho statement of or I Tho tho tha circular sent out by Mr Stone Stono and his colleagues that the they are beginning to do some Bomo of at the tho thinking about tho Adamson law which Mr Hughes suggested suggested suggested sug sug- that thc they do In his Newark speech pooch And tho they are ure finding that the tho In law lass Is not so clear as It might be I The They are aro beginning to pay par ono of ot the penalties for tor haste I But there thoro Is ono one man who affects to know just what the tho Adamson law means and Inasmuch much as It was ns his surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render to the tho throat of at a strike by the brotherhoods that drove the bill through Con Congress reso he certainly ought to know all about it and especially what It means He lie is President Wilson Time and again as since ho signed ned tho the bill hill with four gold pen pens and gave g-avo oneto ono one onoto onoto to each cach brotherhood chief r as a sacred souvenir ho ha has proclaimed In public his satisfaction with this hour eight lass law lau as ho alwn always s 's describes It It as an f accomplishment of oC service to labor and to humanity Since Sinco Mi Mr Stono and his s colleagues are In such doubt as to tho the meaning and application of this law wh why dont don't they apply apply to Mr Wilson for real In Information Information In- In formation Is Is' Is there anything In their experience with i him which has caused them to bogin to doubt his omniscience omni omni- omniscience science Perhaps thero there Is Labor to Bo Do Goat Other speakers who are contributing to the public discussion of oC this law In are arc 1 wondering how It Is that railroad mon such as Lovett of ot the the- Union Pacific and Underwood of or the tho Erie aro are so enthusiastic enthusiastic en on- In their thell support of ot President Wilson for tor re election Is It because the they are aro so displeased wYth tho the Adamson Adamson Adamson Adam- Adam son act act asks Henn J Allen tho well known Kansan Is labor to o bo be the goat Was this bill a gun yun loaded 11 by labor Jabor or for labor This wage increase did not come lomo out of Wilsons Wilson's pocket 01 of out of ot tho pocket of oC tho the administration tion No hour eight-hour day with ten-hour ten pay pity for fOl the railway postal clerIcs clerks or other ther postal employees No o That t ralso woul would l show in tho Wilson administrations administration's administrations administration's tion's appropriation bill Labor again ns-aln the football of or politics How glow often otton have o its sage counsellors warned it awa away from entangling alliances One proud boast of or labor that that its vote ote could coull neither bo ho bou bought ht nor delivered Has It endured until now only to be sold old to the party soliciting this vote ote with a rainbow just before election 7 |