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Show RAILWAY ffi STUDY THE AiEW 8-HDOR LAW Final Action Will Be Decided De-cided Upon After Investigation Inves-tigation Is Made. NEW YORK. Sept. 22. A statement issued is-sued here today on behalf of the railway executives' advisory committee, representing repre-senting the railroads affected by the Adamson ei?ht-hour law, explained the purposes of its investigation put under way with a view to meeting: the problems presented. The objects are "lo ascertain, j if possible, first, the effect of the law as a practical operating problem, and, second, its legal status." The first of these inquiries Is being pursued pur-sued by the managers through the national na-tional conference committee of the railroads, rail-roads, of ihich Elisha Lee is chairman. A study of legal questions has Ivcn referred re-ferred to counsel of the various roads. Meanwhile railway executives, it was asserted, as-serted, will continue to take "a position squarely in favor of investigation before action," to prepare a way for the course the roads will pursue. "There is," the executives' statement says, "great dissatisfaction with the so- called eiyht-hour act, both In principle I and in manner of its enactment. There j are various questions of policy which must i be decided. Jf the railroad executives, on1 advice of counsel, should conclude that 1 the law is invalid or even unfair, they must then consider what is to be their attitude totheii shareholders in the matter mat-ter uf its enforcement. They also must consider their duty to the public in ask- ing fbr an increase in railroad rates, as suggested hy thu adminlstra lion. They must meet the question whether, under, the so-called eisht-hour law, they must require men who now work less than eight hours to give a full eight hours ot" service." |