Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — WILL TEST THE ADAMSON LAW [ARTICLE]

WILL TEST THE ADAMSON LAW

Snit Filed in Nebraska to Determine Wage Law. Omaha, Nebraska, November 10. —The Union Pacific company filed suit ip the federal court here today to test the constitutionality of the law recently passed by congress and known as the Adamson act. Thomas S. Allen, United States district attorney, and four Union Pacific Railway trainmen representing the railroad brotherhoods are made defendants. The bill of complaint alleges that the law is unconstitutional because it is not a proper regulation of interstate commerce, because it violates the guarantees of the fifth amendment to . the federal constitution and because it is unworkable as applied to existing conditions under which the trainmen are operating. The bill of complaint *is a printed document of considerable size and contains copies of all the schedules under whieh the trainmen work.

More than fifty feet of tin tubing, filled with peas, is used by an English inventor to filter the scratching and metallic sounds from phonograph music.