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Show oo LEGAL TALENT !N AJJANDARY Have Not Decided What Railroads Rail-roads Should Do in Regard to Adamson Law. Chicago, Nov. 3. E. P. Ripley, president pres-ident of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, addressing members of the City club here today, let It be known that the legal talent of the railroads rail-roads are still in a quandary as to what the roads should do with regard to the Adamson law. "Nobody knows what the Adamson law means, or how it can be applied to existing conditions," said Mr. Rip ley. "The best legal opinion is that it cannot be construed to be a legal and binding statute. This means that, if the railroads tried to' enforce it as it stands to avoid a. strike, it would seriously reduce the earningB of a large part of the highest men. If, on the other hand, the railroads follow the law as ihe brotherhoods would like to have them do, namely, taking the hot end of the poker in every case, it would cost them a very large sum, estimated at $100,000,000 a year. The law will be tested and probably will find itself in the supreme court of the United States unless modified by congress con-gress before its effective date." oo I |