Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — DOUGLAS FOR 8-HOUR LAW. [ARTICLE]

DOUGLAS FOR 8-HOUR LAW.

Former Governor of Massachusetts Defends Act on Principle. W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass., shoe manufacturer, has given an interview in which he sets forth what the Wilson administration has accomplished and prges the re-election of the President. Mr. Douglas, who was elected Governor of Massachusetts by the largest majority ever given a Democrat in that state, said of the Adamson eight-hour law: “It was the only thing that the president could have done. The law is founded on right principle when applied to industries as a whole, doing an interstate business, and is hound to prevail. Not all people realize the great service President Wilson rendered the country by putting the eight-hour question squarely up to congress. Their action prevented a great railroad strike. If congress had not settled the strike I believe that most of the industries throughout this country would have had to close down. Two days before the law was passed this factory could ngt ship goods owing to the embargo placed on all freight. The necessities of life would have shot up in price and famine and mobs would hav£ been rampant throughout the land. “The eight-hour act is only a part ot the President’s recommendations to be considered by congress in December. The President plans to harmonize the differences between capital and labor and make strikes impossible.”