Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — NO STRIKE IF BILL PASSES [ARTICLE]

NO STRIKE IF BILL PASSES

Proposal for 8-Hour Day— Nlaasure to be Rushed Through LABOR LEADERS ACCEPT BILL Union trailers May Cancel Order as Soon as Lower Branch'Takes Favorable Action. Washington, Aug. 31.—Congress will comply with the ultimatum of the brotherhoods and thus avert the threatened railroad Btrike. At 4:30 tomorrow afternoon tho house will pass' a compromise bill drawn up, by the leaders and approved by the President and the brotherhoods giving the men eight hours’ work with ten hours’ pay. This bill will reach the senate on Saturday ntornlng. It 1b the understanding that £at body will approve it, probably without any amendments. Should the program arranged *oday he carried out without a hitch, tho brotherhoods promise they ><H send telegraphic instructions canceling the strike order. Secretary of the trainmen made the following pledge to the senate interstate commerce committee: ‘'Enactment into law or the President’s eight hour day bill, as drawn, guaranteeing the present 10 hour day wage, will be regarded as a satisfactory settlement of our differences with the railroads, and there will be no strike. In order to prevent a strike, however, this bill must become a law before next Saturday at midnight.”