Show EIGHT LAW LAI HELD ELD VALID MID BY Iff SUPREME COURT COURT JUDGES IN SIX SIXTO TO THREE VERDICT VERDICT VER VER- DICT DICT UPHOLD UPHOLD THE ADAMSON LAW LAW AS CONSTITUTIONAL In Its Decision However the Court Rules That Employees of Public Service Corporations May Not Strike in Concert Washington By By a vote of six to three the Supreme court on March 19 ID upheld Uie tle right of congress to legislate along any lines designed to meet a public emergency when it upheld upheld up up- upI I held the Adamson hour eight-hour law for tor railway employees In its Its decision however the court made the most radical advance in its history when it ruled that the employees employees employees em em- of public service organizations have not the right to strike in con con- I cert That right declared Chief Justice White in enunciating what may yet be characterized as revolutionary law lawand lawand lawand and lead directly to public ownership of public utilities Is necessarily surrendered surrendered surrendered sur sur- rendered when the men are engaged in public service They are arc comparable comparable able to soldiers in the ranks who in inthe inthe inthe the presence of enemies of their country country country coun coun- try may not desert The decision was not really necessary necessary necessary sary at this time inasmuch as the railway strike situation had been adjusted adjusted adjusted ad ad- in New York earlier in the day Justices Pitney Day and ter dissented from the majority and held that the law was a n wage increase law and no proper regulation of commerce com corn merce under the constitution Justice McKenna concurring with the majority major ity held that it involved simply the fixing of hours of labor Justice Pitney for himself and Justice Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice delivered a dissentIng dissenting dissenting dissent dissent- ing opinion in which he expressed concurrence in the view held by Justice Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice Day that the Adamson law was unconstitutional because congress although although although al al- al- al though confessedly not in possession of the information necessary for intelligent intelligent in In- and just treatment of the controversy between carriers and trainmen arbitrarily imposed upon the carriers an enormous cost of an anex ex experimental in increase rease In wages without without without with with- out providing for any compensation to be paid in case the investigation should determine the impropriety of the increase I The installation of the hour eight-hour day for trainmen will it is asserted affect more than railway men directly The new wage scale will cost the railroads of the country approximately approximately approximately ap ap- proximately annually The back pay from January 1 which thich the themen themen themen men will receive will total in the neighborhood of twelve or thirteen million dollars TIre The court decision is regarded as a great victory for the railway employees employees em em- in their fight for an hour eight-hour work day and there will be no strike Under the agreement reached between be between between be be- tween the railroads and the men involved involved in in- the men will get an hour eight-hour day and time and one eighth for overtime overtime overtime over over- time work This was was was' the only oily point pointon on which the men yielded They had hall originally dem demanded a basis of time and one-half one for overtime |