Show Press Comment on Hour 8 Legislation Out of Peoples People's Pockets Pittsburg Telegraph Chronicle Purporting Purporting purporting Pur porting on its face to fix hours of labor labor la- la bor hor its real design and practical ef effect e- e ef- ef feet is to fix wages The extra amount paid out In wages will have to come out of the pockets ets of the people People Will Pay New York Sun How can such predatory legislation promote the general general general gen gen- eral w welfare when it Is the people who in the end will have to pay for the fruits of coercion Shippers Must Pay Where Is this Detroit Free Pree Press new money to come from Freight rates must be advanced and the 95 per cent of the American people who are not direct parties to this amazing situation must pay the extra wages through the new rates National Calamity Averted Boston Post With the passage by byboth byboth byboth both branches of congress of the Adamson Adamson Adamson Ad- Ad amson hour eight-hour railroad employment bill a great industrial peace is assured a national calamity averted and the people of the United States saved from and possible Inconveniences privations S I dangers almost almost inconceivable This legislation is not perfect But the main point is that the action I of congress Inspired and urged by the president has prevented a disaster Purely Emergency Legislation Washington Post The hour eight-hour I bin bill passed by congress is purely emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency legislation It had to be rushed through without much debate There can be no charge of against congress when that body merely merely merely mere mere- ly voiced the popular decision that the strike should be he prevented and that constructive legislation should be be passed afterward Cannot Compel Employers Philadelphia Record The government government government govern govern- ment cannot compel any man to work for a wage sage which it may prescribe If he deems It insufficient It is difficult to see see how it can compel any employer to tl pay a wage which he deems excessive Thinks Congress at Sea Philadelphia Public Ledger Just what congress has done by passing the hour eight-hour bill even the members themselves themselves themselves them them- selves do not know No one can say how far or in what direction I the path upon which we have entered I will wIB lead Brotherhoods Will Pay I Brooklyn Eagle Victories have I been heen known to cost more than defeats S The brotherhoods have blun blun- I dered And when they are most in need of ot friendship they will pay for it |