The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-09-06
IE|CHT- HOUR BILL PASSES
RAILROAD STRIKE AVERTED
President Signs Bill on Sunday Morn
ing and Brotherhoods Flash
Orders Revoxing Walkout.

The house bill, known as the Ad-
amson eight-hour law, passed the
Senate last Saturday a few minutes
in any particular. The vote stood
AZ to 2S-one Republican Senator,
LaFollette, voted for the bill and
two Democrats. Clark of Arkansas
and Hardwick of Georgia voted
against the bill, thus passing it by
almost a strict party vote.
The Underwood amendment, en-
powering the Interstate Commerce
Commission to fix wages and the
hours of labor, and which was
strongly opposed by many Senators
under the leadership of Senator Key
Pittman, was killed by vote of 81
to IA.
The strike has been averted. The
brotherhood leaders announced that
the order calling the men out would
be rescinded without waiting FOR the
signature of the President Sunday
morning. In order to avoid any
question of the validity of the sigma
ture due to its signing on a holiday
the President signed it again yester-
day on his return to Washington
from Kentucky, where he was sched-
uled for an address
The announcement of the settle
ment of the strike, for the present
at least, was variously received ac-
oording TO the sympathies of the
general public 1t is safe to say that
any measure calculated to delay the
strike or gain time during which
further negotiations looking TO a
peaceful settlement by commission
appointed to consider the various
questions in their phases. will be
hailed with extreme delight.
1t is said the railway managers re-
ceiyed the announcement of the pas
sage of the Adamson law with dis
tinet displeasure and there are rum
ors that the constitutionality of the
law will be tested shortly.
Following is the text of the bill
as it passed the Senate:
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of the United States of Amer
! lea, in congress assembled,
Section /; That beginning De-
cember l, 1916, eight hours shall in
contracts for labor and service be
deemed a days work and the meas
ure or standard of days work for
the purpose of reckoning compensa-
tion for service of all employees who
are now or may hereafter be en-
ployed by any railroad which is sub
ject to the provisions of the act of
February 1, 1887, ian act to regu-
late commerce. as amended, and
who are now or may hereafter be
actually engaged in any capacity in
the operation of trains used for the
transportation of persons or property
on railroads, from any State or ter
ritory of the United States or the
District Of Columbia, to any other
States or territory of the United
States or the District of Columbia,
or from one place in territory to
another place in the same territory,
or from ANY place in the United
States to an adjacent foreign coun-
try or from any place in the United
States through foreign country to
any other place in the United States.
Section 2: That the president
shall appoint commission of three
which shall observe the operation
and effects of the institution of the
eight hour standard work day as
above defined and the facts and con-
ditions affecting the relations be-
tween such common carriers and
employees during period of not less
than six months nor more than nine
months, in the discretion of the com
MISSION, anu MiiHlh oV uayS AhSA e"h
ter such commission shall report its
findings to the president and con-
gress. That each member of the
commission created under the pro-
visions of this act shall receive such
compensation as may be fixed by the
president The sum of twenty five
thousand dollars or so much there
of as may be necessary, be, and is
hereby, appropriated out of any
money in the United States treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to be I'M
mediately available and to continue
available until the close of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1917, for the
necessary and proper expenses in
CURED in connection with the work
of such commission, including sal
aries, per diem, travelling expenses
of members and employees, and rent,
furniture, Office fixtures, etc"