The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-31
UNMASKS REPUBLICAN ATTEMPTS TO MISREPRESENT EFFECT OF
 ADAMSON EIGHT HOUR LAW
Senator Hollis Also Shows
 Up Those Who Trade For Dollars in Name of the
 Railroad Workers Votes.

Berlin, N. H., Oct. 31.-United States Senator Henry F. Hollis, speak ing Friday night at the Democratic rally, further unmasked Republican attempts to misrepresent to workers the effect of the Adamason Eight Hour law. Hollis said in part: ''The Republican newspapers of the East have been nicely fooled by des- patches sent out from Republican headquarters at Chicago concerning | the attitude of so-called Railway Workers Non-Partisan association. Chicago papers gave. the matter an inconspicuous paragraph. In the East l find columns.
 When I took charge of the Labor Bureau at Democratic Western Head | quarters in Chicago last August, was approached by W. J. Pinkerton and W. L. Hall who claimed to be the President and Secretary of this Non- Partisan Railway League. They were strong advocates of President Wilson and wanted me to contribute to the expense of sending out a bulletin to their members in the interest of the President. I told them I would look into the matter.
 
 ed in September, Pinkerton and Hall came to see me again. They had no fault to find wi<h the Adamason Bill, but were full of plans to help elect Wilson. I asked them to formulate their plans and see me later. Mean while I made, inquiries and learned that the organization had been inac- tive since the Presidential election in 1912, and no bulletin had been sent out during the past four years. I nev- CT found more than one railroad man who approved of what Pinkerton and Hall were doing.
 ''These gentlemen saw me again later in September. They had laid out plan to which they wanted me to contribute several thousand dol lalrs. I told them my doubts about their membership and suggested that they let me write to some of the rail- way men on their list to satisfy my self, that they were genuine members This they refused to let me do. 1 found from the Western Headquar- ters records that several hundred dol lars had been paid to Pinkerton, and Hall for political work in 1912 and I told them I could not spend more than that this year. They thereupon left me and I thoroughly understood that they were going to offer their services to the Republican campaign managers. One of them fingered be- hind to tell me that before they sent out their bulletin, they would see me again to give me one more chance. It was just a question of paying the price. I wouldn't do it. The Repub- licans evidently did.
 ''In all their talks with me neither Pinkerton nor Hall ever found any fault with the Adamason Bill. Hall has not been in tho railroad service for several years, and I learned last week that Pinkerton is not in the rail- road service now. I never saw any evidence that their Non-Partisan Lea que has any existence except on paper. It certainly has no official connection with any railroad brotherhood.
 ''The matter sent out by the Re- publican campaign committee as com ing from Pinkerton is a fanciful at tack that will find no response among railroad men. It conjures up lot of ghosts that exist in no brain but Psa- kerton's.
 'gThe best joke of all is that the at- tack is not on President Wilson. It is directed against the brotherhoods by men who are not in sympathy with the officials of railway workers un- ions. Even Pinkerton does not say he is for Hughes. He will vote for Wilson. He has told me so. If he did otherwise. he\ would lose what little influence he has left among rail- road men,"