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Show oo PRESIDENT IS TO MAKE STATEMENT Challenging Hughes' Remarks Will Be One of Principal Points of Wilson's Talk. Long Branch, N. J., Sept 15 President Pres-ident Wilson decided today to take advantage of the earliest possible opportunity op-portunity to challenge the statement made by Charles E. Hughes In recent speeches that the basis on which the recently threatened railway strike was averted was merely an increase of wages for the employes. The president, his political advisers advis-ers said today, considers the principle princi-ple of the eight-hour day vitally affected af-fected by the strike settlement, and will seek to show that while the railroad rail-road legislation passed by congress to meet the situation, will give the employes em-ployes at least a temporary Increase In pay, the more Important Is that It established the eight-hour day as the basis of work for railroad workmen. Tho president will make known his views either in a speech at Shadow Lawn, or in a letter. Mr. Wilson expects to make clear that he will not be satisfied until congress con-gress enacts into tho law the rest of the railroad legislation he recommended recom-mended when the strike was threatened, threat-ened, Including an increase in the interstate in-terstate commerce commission and a measure for Investigation of controversies contro-versies between railways and their employes before strikes or lockouts aro called. |