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Show ADAMSON LAW REPUDIATED Railroad Men See Through Administration's Alleged "Eight-Hour Law" , 40,000 NAMES ANTICIPATED Judging from the action of laboring labor-ing men throughout the country, notably no-tably those employed on railroads, in relation to the Adamson law, it begins to look as though railroad men are beginning to awake from the trance into -which the Administration Adminis-tration threw them by the passage of the "first-aid-to-railroaders" law. Advices from Duluth, Minn., as quoted in the Salt Lake Herald Republican, Re-publican, confirm this view: Duluth, Minn., Oct. 24. Employees Em-ployees on the railroads having di-' vision points here express confidence, based on figures available today, that they will have between C300 and 7000 names on petitions from SO per cent of employees' not included in-cluded in the Adamson law to send to President Wilson an appeal against that law. The petitions cover branches of workmen outside of the engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmett and are circulated, the petitioners say. "so that the SO per cent can get their claims into the combination before the 2 0 per cent absorb all the revenues -of the railroads under the provisions of the law. The circulators circu-lators expect to obtain 20.000 signatures signa-tures from the Northern Pacific. 2 0,00 0 from the Great Northern. 1,000 from the Duluth & Iron Range railroad and smaller numbers from other iron range roads. |
