Arizona republican., 1916-09-03

the employees and the railroad heads al- though it is only a part of the legls- lative program he took to congress last Tuesday when his negotiations had failed.
 Issuance of the orders of cancella- tion followed a meeting of the four [ brotherhood heads and thirteen re- maining members of their committee of GAO. Some opposition to action until the president actually had affixed his signature was evidenced in the meet ing but in the end the seventeen voted unanimously to call off the strike i'm mediately. All the code messages had l been prepared in advance and as quickly as the decision was announced | clerks rushed to the telegraph offices with armloads of messages.
 No two of the more than 600 dis 1 patches were alike. One of them read; ''Tt is reported big fire is raging in Toronto" Another said: There IS danger of your house burning down | tomorrow Even the brotherhood heads did not know what all the mes 1 sages contained, the composition or them having been left to clerks.
 The original plan to wait until the president had signed the bill before
 
 in order to facilitate the transmission
 of the messages It was thought if
 the orders were not sent out until to- morrow many small telegraph offices
 probably would be closed and the 10000
 or more local chairmen, all of whom in
 turn are to receive messages from the
 $40 general chairmen. might not be
 advised. The argument also was ad-
 vanced that newspaper publicity to- , morrow throughout the country would
 be of great assistance in getting the word to the employees who would bt affected by the strike.
 The four brotherhood heads were in l vited tonight to be present tomorrow morning when President Wilson signed the bill. The president will use foul pens in affixing his signature and eacl of the labor leaders will be given ont of them as a souvenir.
 Although members of congress breathed easier when their task wa done. the relief was not so much ; demonstration of satisfaction over tn legislation enacted as over the i'm mediate results it had accomplished It not only stopped the strike bu served to stay the soaring prices 0 | food and the neceSsaries of life, whicl T had been going rapidly upward for seV eral days. They also were jubilan
 that at last the way looked clear fo adjournment of congress but man members were convinced that with tn
 re-assembling in December the ques ! ton would come up again and tha
 permanent legislation suggested by tn 3 president along the line of compulsor
 arbitration would be pressed. In tn
 meantime the joint sub committee re 2 gently created by congress will get
 work on problems of legislation an
 proposed recommendations to be mad
 as soon as possible in the session { Il come.
 I Republican senators and a few H the democrats in debate on the bill de S clared unhesitatingly that congres & was being coerced, dictated to an 8 driven under the gun to the passage ( % the eight hour bill. without any pro
 vision of a permanent character Ser @ ator Borah asserted that the railroa H trainmen would not dare to order tf n strike if congress should abandon tf X bill and adopt resolution merely T provide for a thorough consideration H the whole subject. Senator Under j wood declared the strike would be 2 H dead on Monday morning If h H amendment should be added to tf ~ eight hour bill as it would be withou Fl Senator Newlands insisted that cor
 gress did not dare do what Presdel N Wilson had dared to do and enact lei
 islation that would to serve as pel
 manent barrier against such threatent N industrial disturbances.
 H Other senators chiefly progressi'
 republicans among them Cummin
 Kenyon and Norris, said that lab
 was getting a bad bargain, "a bras:
 good brick "a hUmbug," anG tn
 they were conceding to congress u