Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1916 — NOT AN EIGHT HOUR DAY. [ARTICLE]

NOT AN EIGHT HOUR DAY.

Recent Hold-up Legislation Does Not Shorten Workday a Minute. As a matter of fact, It is not an eight hour law at all. Tt does not curtail the trainim n’;i’s workday by a single nrn engineer has been receiving $5 for working ten hours a. day this law will raise his pay "to $6.25, but it will not shorten his workday even the tenth part second. This la no moro .ikß. tbfi true eight hour principle than chalk is like cheese. The reason why people call this an eight hour law is because it says that in the case of railroad trainmen they shall get their day’s pay for the first eight hours’ work, and all the rest is to be considered overtime. Do not tell me that this strike could not have been called off or postponed If President Wilson had shown that he meant business. I do not for one minute believe that those four brotherhood leaders started the blaze going without knowing how to put it out. One of them admitted that he could put it out so far as his own brotherhood was concerned, but that his followers would think that he had gone back on them if he were to do so. —Statement of Congressman A P. Gardner.