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Show FUTURE DEAL IS SEEN IIU LOVETT'S ACTION Indorsement of Wilson Gives Gold Brick Complexion to Eight-Hour Law. The contention advanced that in the Adamson law President Wilson handed the railway employes a gold brick has been stoutly upheld by some readers and by others has been seriously seri-ously questioned. Striking collateral evidence of tho gold brick character of ( the legislation is now afforded by the leg course of prominent railway men who are working both secretly and publicly for Mr. Wilson's election. Judge Lovetl, formerly E. H. Harri-man's Harri-man's right-hand man, now chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pacific, was the first io issue a public interview strongly supporting Mr. Wilson for re-election. And his example exam-ple has now been followed by F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie rail-iway, rail-iway, who reviews and approves of practically every step the Wilson administration ad-ministration has taken. When tho board of railway managers met immediately im-mediately after the passage of the Adamson bill they agreed not to oppose op-pose Mr. Wilson's re-election and many of them argued that, while they had opposed the Adamson bill, on second sec-ond consideration they were convinced it would prove to the advantage of the railways; because with the government govern-ment fixing freight rates, hours of labor and the schedule of wages, tho next logical step would be compulsory service and the roads would faro better bet-ter at the hands of the interstate commerce commission than as the result re-sult of collective bargaining with labor unions and brotherhoods. The course of Judge Lovett and President Underwood Under-wood conclusively prove the accuracy of the contentions set forth herein. |
