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Show I . Attack Upon 8-Hour I Law Is Planned BBB BBB Conference of Railroad Attorneys Is BBB Expected, to Be the Next BBB Development BBBr1 i Chicago, Sept. 4. Leaders of the BBB four brotherhoods stationed In Chi- BBB cago to direct tho threatened rail- BBB road strlko prepared today to close BBB llielr temporary offices. With tho re- BBB vocation ot tho strlko order the nee- BBB tissity for their presence disappeared B last Saturday night. BBB Tho noxt development looked for i BBB Is n conference of railroad lawyers i H lo discuss tho best ways of attack- BBB lug tho Adamson law, which goes In- BBB to effect January 1. BBB Declares Law Make Shift H Washington, Sept. 4. Thero was BBB n lively tilt In the House today over H tho eight hour law enacted last week BBB lo prevent tho threatened railroad BBH ntrlko. Representative Mooro of H .Pennsylvania, Hepubllcan, criticised J Iho President and Congress, Insisting H ' that tho law was a mako sn.'ft, like- BBH ly to bring on a strike later when It BBH would be a"grcatcr calamity. Repre- BBH ucntatlvo Adamson, author of the H net, denied all of Mr. Moore's asser- J tlons and declared that tho law was H only a part ot a legislative program H to be completed at another session. H Senator Reed of Missouri today In- BBBJ Iroduced a resolution to authorize tlio ' BBH Interstate comtnorco commission to H Investigate tho otTect of tho eight hour H day law on tho cost of operation ot H I railroads and to report to Congress In H December. Tho resolution will bo J called up for consideration tomor- BBBJ H Traffic Moving Regularly H New York, Sopt. 4. Freight tratllo B on all railroads entering New York BBBJ Interrupted by embargoes due to tho J fear of a strlko, was moving again J ' today on normal schedules. Railroad K men say that Httlo congestion has H ' resulted from tho brief cmbargoos. B ' ' A task beforo tho railroads Is that J ; of demobilizing tho forces ot strlko BBHJ ' breakers assembled last week nl con- B , idderablo expanses. A number ot the B , larlkebrakors, It Is said, were cm- BBBl ployed on contracts which still liavo BBBl a week, and somo even a month, to BBBl |