AMERICAN RAILWAY EMPLOYEES
NEW YORK, February 20.
President Roosevelt has written to the Inter-State Commerce Commission relative to the importance of limiting the hours of railway employees.
LONDON, February 24.
The New York correspondent of The Times stated that President pfoosevelt had again stirred the country by means of a letter requesting the Inter-State Commerce Commission to investigate the labour conditions affecting railway employees and the possible reduction of wages.
Some interpret this as. an attempt to 6ecure for Mr Taft the labour votes, while others believe that it is a 11 ise mode of preventing a 6trike. It is apparent that the railways are facing conditions wherein they must reduce the number of men employed or cut wages.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 29
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