New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1916, Page 14

DAMSON EXPLAINS | EIGHT HOUT LAW T’ather of Bill Calls It Justiliable Legislation ‘(By Hon.' Willlam C. Adamson of #Ga., Author, Adamson Eight-| Hour Act). | . No plece of legislation ever passed by the American congress was more Justifiable than the bill proposed at o' joint sesslon by President Wilson fid_Jater enacted by both houses for ! Bedvbntion of a nation-wide rail- G AN a This bill fixes an eight- ‘day as the basis of pay "@ngaged in interstate before it had even the president, it has ediate purpose by re-~’ rike order which had ne forth, Not only! did the eight-hour act pare this country a period of paraly- and, distress more overwhelming b through which it has ever Besed Ti'a time of peace, but already Has paved the way for a settlement ‘the. issues upon which the rail- As ®@nd their employes deadlocked. e information has come to us that o railroads themselves are becom- reconciled to the system which ho law imposed and that the Iliti- gation to test the constitutionality of e act may be begun, or if begum, ay never be carried to the supreme. ourt. Offers No Apologies. Whether the ‘rallroads accept this islation ot, those of us who I tal in placing this law statute books need offer no pologies for our action. We faced national crisis, one involving the welfare ‘of every man, woman and hild n the land. = The president Jhad ised all the power at his com- mand to bring the two parties to- ether and had failed. Arbitration as impossible. The strike impend- d, Embargoes .had already been #id by leading railroads against all perishable freight, that is, the freight fvhich may be described in terms of ood, Prices of the commonest nec- fies of life were doubled over An appalling situation con- orifed us and we acted determinedly ind. gecisively. SIEfis untpue and unjust for any M'to charge that congress was wodded or driven in this matter. 'If re - was any driving done, it was N 5 ! heal the American people and we acted as their spokesmen. Both the rail- roads and their men are the servants of the people and we dealt with them as servants, not as masters. That one side was satisfied and the other was not, made no difference. The question of an eight-hour day was not a 'new one. Every member of congress had general information enough about it to have been familiar with that question for years. It came up suddenly, it is true, and at an unfortunate time for those who were anxious for congress to adjourn. But it was not mbre unfortunate for them than it was for the commercial interest of the country. It came up at a time when the crops were about to be moved and business it was hoped would be bountiful and pros- perous That made it even more se- rious and more necessary that we should do something to relieve the situation. Duty to Intervene. The men who operate the trains made their demands six or eight months ago. The carrier officials de- clined the demands. The operatives were threatening a strike. It was the duty of any patriotic citizen to public intercst that was the iyen. No individual or set of In- Bividuals waved a bludgeon above our eads. We were the spokesmen of @ intervene and make suggestions that might avert the calamity, :The presi- dent of the United States to whom we all look with.respect and confi- This handsome 50-piece set of fine Saxon China. has an attractive, exclu- sive design.and is deco- rated in the'soft shades of gray, green, pink, yellow and blue with a gold line around the rim. * A BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 191‘ The all-weather food In summer, Uneeda Biscuit are eaten by the millions of pack- * ages, because they are the ideal hot-weather food. But they are just as ideal a cold-weather food. In winter, good demands warmth-creating food elements. Biscuit possess these elgments in a higher degrec than any other flour food, Eat them for their nourishment. Eat them for their-flavor. Eat them for their goodness. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Uneeda dence invited the two parties to con- fer with him with the hope that as mediator himself, he' might bring about an accomodating of the dif- ferences. He failed. The brother- hoods ordered a strike. The president thereupon stated the case to con- gress. There was nothing new in anything he proposed. It had all been a matter of discusslion for vears, In framing this bill the members of the committees of the two houses of congress having jurisdiction of the subject canvassed the situation thor- oughly. We found that in the con- ferences which had taken place be- fore the president lald the matter before congress, one party, the party threatening the strike, had agreed to certain propositions which he had made to them. The other side had rejected those propositions, demand- ing that full and absolute, legislation covering the whole fleld should be had at once. But we could not walit for that. There was not time..' All that we could do was to be consistent with the proceedings which the presi- dent and the two parties to-the con- troversy had participated in. The - party threatening the strike had agreed to certain propositions. We considered it logical .that if con- gress enacted those propositions’into law, it would be unjustifiable for the brotherhoods to strike. Logically Get These Beautiful Dishes Read This Startling Offer For a limited time only, we are offering this magnifi- cent 50-piece, fine china dinner set to New England housewives for twenty-five coupons packed with Parksdale Farm Eggs and $2.75 in cash—delivered ‘to you, express prepaid. Really, this charming set is an ornament to any dining table. You’ll certainly be pleased with it. You'll also like Parksdale Farm Eggs, for they are gwaranteed to satisfy you. coupons. Wedgwood Creamery Butter. P. BERRY & SONS, Incorporated, Hrriford, Conn. 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It s merely ‘a protocel adopted prior to a permanent ‘trea Nobddy “need féar that the committee of congress which -dealt ‘With this guestion, nor congress as a body will ever delib- erately disregard the rights of either the railroads or their employes. They are both servants of the peo- ' ple working to maintain our great { system of transportation and we leg- islated upon their interests as such. We dic what we could with the light before u Unfortunately @ crisis was precipitated in which ilamediate and effective action was imperative. When the president moved in the matter, making his plain, clear propo- ition to. the two sets of men, the railroad managers were not patriotic enoush to accept it. ~ The other side did accept it. The sensible, ration- al thing to do, in that situation, to avert a strike, was to do what one side had agreed to. It was a thing which we all knew was right, a thing which we all knew ought to be done. There never was a fairer or better balanced proposition ever made than the proposition which President Wil- son made to the parties deadlocked over this issue, And he made it in the interest of the American people, to whom the whole crowd belongs, railroads and all, The position of the neutral is always misunderstood and mistrusted by the parties between whom he has intervened. Fach side thinks he is taking the part of the other, and that was true in this case. Both sides should havg accepted the president’s proposal in the beginning for it was based upon a principle that fundamentally ig right. In the passage of the eight-hour act congress adopted a suggestion which we all understood, which everybody understands and which ought to have heen (\mhod!e% in legis- lation long ago. The other sugges- tions about which many of us dif- fered and about which we had no time to work out a basls of agree- ment, we* postponed for future con- sideration.. There is one measure which the senate should have passed. This is the bill increasing the mem- bership of the Interstate Commerce Commission from seven to nine mem- bers. It has already been adopted by the house and should have become a law without any reference whatever to the conditions raised by the strike situation, Removed. The New Britain Co-operativh Sav- ings and Loan ssociation and T’eople’s Savings bank to Room No. 210, National Bank building, No. 272 Main street. Reasons’ why you should deposit your mongy in the New Britain Co- operative Pavings and Loan assocla- tion:— § Receivesi your money installments. Pays 5 per cent. on your compoundéd semi-annually. Loans money to its members to buy or build homes returning the same in monthly installments. Loans money to its members on pledged shares. Shares ¢an be withdrawn at any time. $1.00 paid monthly will return to the_depositor $200.00 in 12 1-2 vears. New shares issued in April = and October, each year. Shares in the 37th serfes will ma- ture October 31st, 1916, returning to the depositors $20,000.00 in cash. Has paid its depositors over $500,- 000.00 since its organization in 1886. No safer production to invest your savings In and recelve better than Savings Bank interest. Y. J. STEARNS, Secretary. SERVE IN ARMY OR BE WOOD CHOPPER in monthly money New Bill in Norway Gives Men of Military Age Choice of Oc- cupations. (Correspondence of the Asso. Christiania, Norway, = Sept. { P11l just passed by the Norweglan leg- islature permits men of military age to choose whether they will serve their regulation period with the colors or go to wood-cutting in the govern- ment frests... Every man in Norway is obliged to do forty.days military drill, but thig year owing to the wearc- ity and expensiveness of imported fuel—coal and coke—much labor wwill be required in the public and priyate forests for the felling and cutting /df timber and it is intended £o utilize the services of the soldiers for this purs pose and for the cutting of peat. Laborers' - wages 4n the:hig indus- trial centersfhave risen to an ‘abror- mal height since the beginning of the European war and consequently men have been attracted from the country districts, so that the new legislation is regarded as a boon by the proprie- tors of wooded land. The soldier-for- estérs are to be paid the ordinary wages of country laborers less twen- ty per cent,, and a large proportion of this year's class of soldlérs have sig- nified heir intention of wielding the axe and the saw instead of the rifle and bayonet. In some quarters it 18 proposed to extend this scheme and place the re- cruits to worl: at rallroad building, which is much needed, All the rail- roads are owned and run by the gov- 2rnment and plans have been made for the construction of & main line lauross the country and a local line old trees of Belgium are being cut GLOBE C along the coast. Delay has been caused by the lack of labor, but it is hoped by means of the new legisla- tion to overcome this. BELGIAN FORESTS DEV/ 'ATED. Paris, Sept, 29.—Many of the fine down for use in the German trenches. The famous Bois de la Cambre near Brussels is saiq to have lost 10,000 ot its trees, and lesser parks and woods are ylelding their proportion. SL Tokio, Sept er Kasagi which v phia in 1898 has been wrecked in the straits of Tsugaru the assistance of a stranded steamer under charter by the navy. ship ran on rocks off PointwShjokubi. 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