Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1916 — President Wilson Plans Rail Reforms to End Strike Menace. [ARTICLE]

President Wilson Plans Rail Reforms to End Strike Menace.

President Wilson definitely committed himself and the democratic leaders in congress Friday to a program of legisaltion designed to remove further menace of a nationwide transportation strike. In a statement commending the work of congress during the session which just closed, the president declared the leader's of the senate and house proposed to pass bills for the accommodation of labor disputes between the railroads and their employes at the next session, which begins in September. The president felt impelled to make the pledge to tire country because of the criticism visited upon him for abandoning the principle of arbitration in connection with the recent differences between the railroads and the brotherhoods. He did not deem it expedient to permit Candidate Hughes to make capital with the railroad investors and other people .with small savings by remai.jdng silent and thereby giving the impression that he had dropped his plan to secure legislation designed to prevent a recurrence of the grave emergency.