Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-20
PRESIDENT TO MEET
TRAINMEN'S LEADERS

Continued from PREs One
alarmed by the sIght.hour hght. are pledg.
ing their support TO the railroads
Meantime, administration an congress
slonal leaders are watching the progress Of
events with grave mlsgivings. Representa-
tive AdamBon OF Georgia. father of the
eight t-hour day law. and Senator Newlands
of Nevada, chairman OF the oint investlgat-
ing committee, are expected to take up
the situation with President Wilson within
a day or two. Both are seeking to frame
legislation to prevent strikes for presenta-
tlon to Congress- as soon az II meets two
weeks from today,
Railroad chiefs ready to appear we're:
Frank Trumbil Chesapeake and Ohio.
A. J. Earing, Chicago Milwaukee and
st. Paul
Howard Elliot, New York, New Haven
and Hartford
w. q. Hannahan, SeaboRrd Air Line,
Hale Holden, c. b. and y.
H. T.. Loree, Delaware and Hudson.
X. g. Lovett, Union Pacific.
G., II. Markham, Illinois Central,
Samuel Rea, Pennsylvania Lines.
A. H. Smith New York Central
f. u, Underwood, Eric.
II, Walters, Atlantic Coast Line.
Daniel Willard, Baltimore and Ohio,
Judge II, s. Lovett. Southern Pacific.
Vice President Buckland. New Haven.
Former Senator Faulkner, counsel for
various lines.
Alfred p. Thom, general counsel for the
national advisory committee of railroad
executives
A Joint subcommittee OF ten, Ave mem
bers of the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee and five members of the House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, w6s In charge of the investigation
when hearings were begun today. The
members are:
Senators Newlands. OF Nevada chair
man Robinson OF Arkansas, Underwood OF
Alabama, Democrats, and Cummlns OF
Iowa, and BrandegGe OF Connecticut Re-
publicans, Representatives Adamson OF
Georgia, vice chairman: Sims Of Tennessee,
and Cullop OF Indiana, Democrats and
Esch of wisconsin, and Hamilton of Mich-
gan, Republicans,
, Probably the problem of most pressing
and immediate Importance which will be
considered by the committee Is that OF regu-
latlng the wages and hours of labor of en-
ployes of the railroads of the country
This problem, growing out OF the threat
ened strike of operating employees of the
railroads, narrowly averted by the eight
hour-day law put through Congress in the
closing hours of the last session, will be
thoroughly threshed out by the commission.
While u special commission, headed by
Major General George w. Goethals has
been named by the President to observe
the working out of the Federal eight hour
laW' tue JOINT subcommittee VIII go into the
whole problem of railroad wages. The
probability OF agitation for the enactment
at the coming session OF the measures
recommended by the President at the last
session of Congress will force a thorough
probe of this question. In an outline of the
matters to be taken up by the Investigation,
the committee asked prospective witnesses
TO discuss the following question:
Whether or not any regulation is
feasible of the wages and hours OF
labor of employees of common carriers,
and whether or not It is advisable, in
the interests of the public and with a
view to maintain uninterrupted com.
merce between the States, to take any
further legislative action regarding the
adjustment of disputes between the car
rlers and their employees ana regarding
strikes and lockouts,
Under this head all of the matters in
dispute between the railroads and their
employees will be considered, and both the
railroads and the operating brotherhoods
will be represented by witnesses. The
national railway executives" advisory COM
mittee, represented by It's general counsel
Alfred p, Thorn, was on hand today with
formidable list OF witnesses and mass
or statistical and argumentatlve data TO
present the railroads side of the case.