Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-22 | Page 3 | Adamson Discusses Expected Decision

ADAMSON DISCUSSES EXPECTED DECISION BOSTON". Jan. 21. Belief that the supreme su-preme court. if it should declare the Adamson eipht-hour law unconstitutional, would find it necessary also to declare unconstitutional un-constitutional si milar legislation, such a the sixteen-hour law for railroad men and the thirteen-hour law for tow-boat employees, em-ployees, was expressed in an address here today by Representative William C. Adam-son Adam-son of Georgia, father of t he A damson bill. "If the bit regulating the shipment of goods interstate in violation of tiie child labor law la constitutional, then there wi'd : be nothing to rrevent congress from en-a en-a ft ing a law to prevent interstate shipment ship-ment of goods by men who ha vo been forced to wm k more than c'ghl hours," Mp continued.