Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1916 — Railroad Man Does Not Like Eight-Hour Law. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Man Does Not Like Eight-Hour Law.

Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 19.—William B. Dorsey, 254 North Arsenal avenue, Indianapolis, the oldest locomotive engineer in years of service on the L. & V. division of the Vandalia railroad, who has been a lifelong democrat; called at the republican state committee headquarters today and announced that he was opposed to the reelection of President Wilson and that he would-vote for Charles Evans Hughes for president. Not only did he promise to support Hughes, but he also offered to go out among the employes of ether railroads in the state and give his reason for refusing to support Wilson. - “I have read the so-called eighthour law’,” Mr. Dorsey said, “And I find that it will cut my wages in twm. I will not vote for any man that does a thing like that. -I have been an engineer on the Vandalia for fortythree years, and for the past thirtyfive years I have had a passenger run. I finish my run betw-een Indianapol is and Vincennes in four hours, and I got a full day’s pay for it. But this new Jaw will allow me only four hours’, pay for four hours’ work, and this will cut my pay in two. I have read the law and understand what it means.. If all other railroad employes would read the law and stddy its provisions they would find out just what it means.”