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Show Strike Wage Law Vicious, He Says tdcho Senator PredlcU Organized La bor Will Some Time Regard it As a Tremendous Error Senator Dotah of Idaho has spoken outsido of tho United States sennto perhaps moro plainly than any other public official nbout tho Adumson bill which was forced through Congress. Ho says It Is vicious from ovory con-ootvnhlo con-ootvnhlo standpoint. "It undertakes to give 10 hours pay for eight hours work, a mattsr most doubtful In count cou-nt Itutlonal law and oven moro doubt-Cut doubt-Cut in morals. "This Increnso in wages of course ultimately will bo passed on to tho peoplo who pay tho freight. We nro therefore, undertaking by law, without with-out any hearing upon tho pnrt of tho8o who ultimately must pny for It, to fix a large Increaso of burden and If It should remain permanently, n tremendous Increaso." That Is taxation, which Is net even dignified uy the label of government taxation, without representation nnd thcrefero even more contrary to American Am-erican principles than any , speaker has mentioned. Hut tjicro nro other points of objection, as Senntor Itorah siys: "In addition to that, whllo it has been snld that Boclcty snnctlons-an snnctlons-an eight hour day, this bill docs not purport to establish an c:ght hour day, but to Increnso the wages of moro than 20 per cent of tho employes em-ployes of railroads. About SO pur cent of theso employes, somo of whom recelvo very low wages and perform arduous services, are not bcnclltcd.by tho bill. Tho bill purports to covor only thoso who aro actually operating trains. Tho other 80 per cent aro left out entirely. "Labor will somo tlmo regard as a troniendous error this whole proposition. prop-osition. It will hurt organized labor; It has debauched and demoralised tho sonato becauso wo have cravenly yielded and It has workcil Injustlco to tho great body of American people peo-ple i "It Is tho most shameless, cowardly coward-ly surrender that I havo over witnessed wit-nessed front town council to Unit-ted Unit-ted Slates 'senate. j "When this thing lB nil over, tho wholo country, tho cntlro body of ciihgross and tho oxecutlvo will fcol that they havo gono through a humiliating humil-iating a compromising and sorry i transaction. "I havo had a vast amount to do with organized labor under all circumstances cir-cumstances nnd conditions, I imvo nevor yet seen a proposition, fair nnd Just to all parties, submitted to tho rank and illo of organized labor without with-out meeting their approval. Their leaders, like political leaders, do not always represent the rank and Illo." |