Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — MURDOCK TO SUPPORT WILSON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MURDOCK TO SUPPORT WILSON

Kansan’s Paper Praises His Course in Urging Adamson Wage' Law. New York, September 21.—Victor Murdock, editor of the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle and a pioneer of the Progrbssive movement in the West, has declared unqualifiedly in faVor of President Wilson’s course in averting a nation-wide railroad strike. . Referring to Mr. Hughes’ opposition to the Adamson wage law and his insistence that arbitration should have been compelled, Mr. Murdock’s newspaper says, in part:. “But Mr. Hughes, like the Republican newspapers, failed to point out how this cquld have been done. The railroad men took the position that the eight-hour day was not arbitrable. They refused flatly to arbitrate. Under the circumstances, then, unless the eight-hour day was granted, a strike would have been inevitable. Would Mr. Hughes'have preferred a strike, with its inevitable burnings- n.nd disorder, its bloodshed and prostration of industry, its stirrinu of class hatreds and suffering of millions of people, to the settlement that Mr. Wilson effected, for the strike of 1 894 gives a faint idea of what might have been expected in 1916 if the President, following Mr. Cleveland’s precedent, had attempted to it by force.

“The great mass of people will undoubtedly feel that Mr. Wilson was wiser in his generation than Mr. Cleveland or than Mr. Hughes. The Adamson bill does not effect a permanent settlement. Further measures are necessary and should be adopted, as the President has recommended. As to the of the President to the demand foe an eight-hour day, Progressives demanded that measure of social justice four years ago, and it certainly ill becomes any one who supported that platforhT to "rail at the President for helping to secure for the railroad men a measure so manifestly just to labor.”

GEORGE E. HERSHMAN Of Crown Point, Democratic Candidate for Congress from This, the Tenth District.