Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 300, 3 November 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1916

One night when the wind wis howllng and the rain falling fast an old man and his wife, who lived near a forest, heard a noise above the wind that sounded like the cry of a baby. "Oh! do get up and see If the child Is at our door." said the old woman, whose name was Nanna, "It will perish out In a night like this." Old Peter, her husband, was a cross o)4 man, and answered that be didn't care if It did. - But Nanna had a kind heart, so she went to the door and looked out Right on the steps she saw a tiny baby. Nanna took It In and gave it some warm milk and then took It In bed with her to get It warm. In the morning Instead of a tiny baby she found the children, had grown quite a bit. "A nice fix you have got us into now, said Peter, when he saw the child. "One more mouth to feed and a crying child to keep us awake at nights." 0v . a But Nanna did not answer. She fed the child and named it Storm because

it was found out in the stown. Each morning Nanna was surprised to find how much Storm had grown during the night, and before many months he was a big boy, large enough to work in the fields. "You should be pleased that we took him in," Nanna told Peter. "He can help you with your work." "He will be only a bother. Boys are of no use until they are men now. He .will eat more now he has grown up,' said Peter. One morning Nanna was surprised to find that Storm's bed had not been slept in and he was nowhere to be found. Every day Nanna looked for mm to return and grieved for him, but Peter told her she was a silly old woman and that they were well rid of him. Several years passed and no word came from Storm, and old Peter grew old and the farm did not bring in enough to keep the old couple, and one night when the wind was howling and the rain falling old Peter and Nanna sat by the fire watching the last stick of wood burn. "What is that?" said Peter, listening. "It does not sound like the wind." Nanna listened and above the wind she heard the cry of a baby just as she had many years before. "It is a child out in the storm." she said; bring it in; it will perish in a storm like this." Old Peter went to the door and opened it, and there on the steps was a tiny baby. Peter picked it up and brought it in. "Poor thing! It has come to a poor place, but such as we have we will share with it," he said, giving the baby to Nanna. "I will poke the fire and make it burn a bit brisker. We can warm the child; but there is no food for the poor thing." So Nanna took the child in bed with her Just as she had Storm many years before, and in the morning when she

ewepaper tynHH, New Yerk, awoke ta hMr aurftrta th fWUI was not beatd hr Nanna got out of bed and went to where Peter w sleeping to see If he had taken the child, but Peter was as

much surprised as Nanna at the

strange disappearance.

Whn Nanna and Peter went Into

the kitchen they saw a sight that made them stare. The table was 'spread for breakfast, and on the stove the coffee was steaming. There was bacon frying in the pan and bread baking in the oven. . When they went to the pantry they found it filled with food; the barn door was open and Peter saw a cow eating her breakfast, while the hay from the loft hung like fringe over her head. "What does it mean and who has been here. I wonder?" said old Peter. Old Nanna did not answer; she took a piece of paper from the table which she had Just discovered under a plate and held it up to Peter. 'This may tell us," she said. Peter put on his spectacles and read, "You shall never want as long as you live; what you had you shared with the needy; suffering has softened the heart of Peter, but Nanna's needed no lesson; she was always kind to those less fortunate than herself." "It Is the fairies," said Nanna, and

the baby was a fairy sent to test us: both times." I Peter sat thinking for a minute, and , then he said, "I brought all the want, upon us because I did not welcome the

baby we found In the storm years ago; but I have been sorry many times that I did not share what I had with it. We will never turn anyone from onr door whether he Is old or young; what we have we will share with others." Old Peter and Nanna lived for many yearn and , always found the pantry filled with food and the barn filled with hay for the cow, but never did they see the fairies or little Storm, yet they believed in them and gave freely of all they had to those who passed their door and were in need of help. Tomorrow's story "The Miser and the Robber."

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The Adamson law is being bitterly assailed for every conceivable reason and in every . possible way,by the Republican party and its adherents through its candidate for President and all who follow him. Misrepresentations of it and its effects based on ign orance I : or a wanton purpose to mislead are rife. In view of the facts connected with the passage of the Adamson law, including the usages, customs and practices prevailing in contracts of service between railroads and their employees through their committee and the railways through their managers' committee is unabrogated and still in force except as modified by the operation of that law. In article 1 of this contract we find this pro vision : "Ten (10) hours or less, or one hundred (100) miles or less, shall constitute a day's work in all classes of service." Now we have seen that the employees were seeking through negotiations with the railways, to substitute eight (8) hours as a maximum, or standard of a day's work and measure of compensation for the ten (10) hours stated in this contract. That was the one vital change they were insisting on. That was the thing ' the railways would not concede. That was the thing the President recommended to Congress. The Congress knew that legislation that would effect that change was wanted. Did they enact it? The provision of the Adamson Act material to this inquiry is "that beginning January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service," be deemed a day's work and the measure or standard of a day's work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of employee of interstate railroads engaged in the operation of trains. If there is room for construction of this provision, if men may honestly differ in the meaning to be given to it, we must appeal for that interpretation to those who are our friends and for us, and not to those who are avowedly against us and who have been against us in the past. The latter, from the Republican candidate for President down to a few members of our own organization, are proclaiming a meaning not permissible. Even if the words of the act above quoted, when taken in connection with the rest of it, were susceptible of conveying an intent to change all of the other provisions of our contract and injuriously to affect existing runs of less than eight hours, the very contention over its meaning would require a resort to those set

tled rules of the law which have been evolved and laid down for the interpretation and construction of statutes of such character. The fundamental rule in such case is that "for ascertaining the true meaning and application of a statute, resort may be had, not only to the language of the statute, but also to the intention of the lawmaking body, the object to be secured, and to such outside extrinsic matters as the circumstances attending its passage." Applying this rule to the Adamson law would leave no doubt that ten hours in Article One of our contract has merely been changed to eight hours. This assurance we have on safe and sure legal advice. Sound reason and ordinary common sense should so assure us without legal advice. That the law is beneficial to us and not a "gold brick," as we are told, should be evident from the assertions of the railroad managers that its actual operation will cost them from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year. If true, who will get this increase? The railroads, in the main, bitterly opposed the law and are still opposing it. If it is not favorable to us, if it does not give us all we now have, and the eight-hour measure of the day instead of the ten-hour measure, why the increased expense to the railroads and why their opposition? When the Adamson law was pending in Congress, the railroad companies opposed it and the Brotherhoods favored it. The issue was sharply defined. The four representatives of the Brotherhood organizations, speaking for the men they represented, urged its passage. Congress, being impressed with the justice of the demands of Labor, decided in its favor. Now that Congress has given us what our representatives asked, and the ' railroad companies are denouncing Congress for having done so, what loyal member of any of the Brotherhoods will join in this attack, and by vote or voice seek to destroy the men who stood by us? The Democratic Party, under Wilson's leadership, abolished "government by injunction, ' and by the Clayton Act insured for workingmen trial by jury in all contempt cases in Federal Courts. The labor legislation passed by Congress was just what the Democratic Party had promised, and just what organized labor demanded. Then came the contest over the Adamson Law, and again the administration stood by organized labor. The most vicious of all the attacks now being made on the Wilson

administration are based on its friendliness toward organized labor. What can be thought of men identified with labor organizations who, under these conditions, will join corporations and trusts in fighting Mr. Wilson and Congressmen and Senators who championed their cause and wrote into law their reasonable demands? The Adamson Law came as the result of the, futile attempt of the trainmen and the railroads to get together in making a new contract of service. For this reason, and for the reason that it was only possible under the Constitution for Congress to act with relation to railroads engaged in intersate commerce, the law had to be limited to these employees. But it is the first great forward step yet made in the general movement for an eight-hour day for labor. Perhaps in some other instances Congress has power to act further. Doubtless in many more instances the power is with State legislatures. Shopmen and all others in railroad work are given hope for better things. Are you going to obstruct the movement, or push it along? If the Adamson law is repudiated by the people, the eight-hour work day movement is at an end an dorganized labor will have received a blow from which it will take years to recover. An Appeal to Organized Labor Men to Be True to Themselves and Their Organizations. If they now vote to repudiate and condemn the President and Congress for having given them just what their leaders asked, what can they expect of the future Presidents and Congresses? All their demands will be met by pointing to the fact that in 1916, when the t Democratic party had generously given them what they wanted, they turned their backs on that party at the first opportunity, and cast their votes against it. And then what party would ever trust them? The Democratic party, in its great leader, the President, in its leaders in the senate like Kear and others, is inspired by the new order of things leading to a full realization of social and industrial justice. Its accomplishments in four years have made more progress towards that full realization than has been made before in all our history. The forces of reaction are in control of the Republican party. The choice is between these two. It is an easy choice. No laboring man can consistently turn his back on the Democratic party now without betraying himself and his own.

General Chairman, Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Big Four Route. I

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