Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — 16,000 Rail Men Fight The New Eight-Hour Act. [ARTICLE]

16,000 Rail Men Fight The New Eight-Hour Act.

Chicago, Oct. 17.—The Railworkers’ Non-Partisan association, which is said to have 16,000 members, today announced its opposition to the Adamson eight-hour law. Through its national chairman, W. J. Pinkerton; of Chicago, the association addressed a circular letter to W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in which the Adamson eight-hour law is described as “the death knell of the economic organizations, the railroad brotherhoods,” and a demand made that the measure be repealed and a convention called to make an investigation of the facts. Four years ago the organization made a successful fight against the Bradley compensation law, which was opposed by the organizations of railway employes. Wilson Bros, full cut dress shirts, $1 to $5. —Hilliard & Hamill.