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Show , If I PRESIDENT ACTUALLY DID 10 T AVERT THREATENED STRIKE DISASTER . it I noforeIf,sl,,1,a "Iththcm (the nillvvny executives nnd the rcpres. I Utltcs of Hie employes) I mnilo myself acquainted with (u points B ii rontroTcrsj'. Theflrft UiJiip I M'1 ,,0" h(1cs w tin 1 slood for the elu'ht.hour i Wfnase u man does belter work within eight hours (him hc docs I more extended dny. I suld to tho rnllrond executives: "You nre i.lln? Hint the result of the eight hour day ho predicted and the pre. I Iwlon lc arbitrated. Tho rcasonnblo thing to do Is to grant the eight. ioordar "ol lll',,IS,, "l0 mcM (,cn,n",1 t '"'cause II Is right and let I Pf pet nutliorit) from Congress to appoint a commission to observe ike results and report In order thnti Justice may lie done the railroads i ,a nived I" Hie rost of tho experiment." i I Thnt vvns the proposal which they rejected and which Congress put P I Ul w " l,rls" w,,,cn ! II1IU,C 0 ,,lcm "I'fnre I conferred with It, I nHch I urged upon them at every conference, and which when the one J I We rfjccleil and the other accepted I went to Congress und ashed Con. H in enact. I did not ask either sido whether It suited them, and I I reineslci! my friends In Congress not to ask either side whether It " I faffed them. I learned before the controversy began that the whole I I tf uipcr of the legislative body wns in favor of the clghUwur da. in the Ilniise of Representatives the plan was passed, was Miner. ' I loned by n Tote which included seventy Republicans as against flflj. H (oarllcimMlcans. In tho Senate tho llepubllcaii members held a con. I fjrenro In which they determined to put no obstacle in the way of the I pageof tho bill. Xovv, this was becuuse tho proposal was reason. I iMennii vms based upon right From President Wilson's speech to I Xc Jersey business men at Shadow l.nwn, N. Y Sept. 2.1. |