Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1916 — Sana Fe Will Refuse to Obey Eight Hour Law. [ARTICLE]

Sana Fe Will Refuse to Obey Eight Hour Law.

E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad declared in a formal statement Wednesday night that the Santa Fe does not intend to comply with the Adamson eight hour law, recently enacted by congress to avert a threatened railroad strike, until ordered to do so by the United States supreme court. President Ripley declared that the so-called eight iiour law was nothing more than an advance of 20 to 25 per cent in wages to men who receive the most money in the railway service. Mr. Ripley’s statement was as follows: “Congress, hastily acting under a threat of four labor leaders, enacted a so-called eight hour law which is nothing more or less than an advance to the best paid men in the railway service. It is only fair to the public and to our employers to say for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway company does not intend to comply with the law, until ordered to do so by the court of last resort.”