. Review of reviews and world's work. fferedit, and they were obdurate, according to thePresident of the United States, even whenhe urged them, offering to appoint all thearbitrators himself. Curiouslv enough, it was Presi- Hom Mr. Wilson ^i_ l l Responded cnt \V ilson who secmed to bethe person most disturbed overthe prospect of the great strike. He rushed toCongress, asking to have a law passed whichwould compel the railway employers to paythese men on the eight-hour basis after Janu-ary 1, as much as they now pay on the ten-hour basis. And he put every pressure uponCongress to pas
. Review of reviews and world's work. fferedit, and they were obdurate, according to thePresident of the United States, even whenhe urged them, offering to appoint all thearbitrators himself. Curiouslv enough, it was Presi- Hom Mr. Wilson ^i_ l l Responded cnt \V ilson who secmed to bethe person most disturbed overthe prospect of the great strike. He rushed toCongress, asking to have a law passed whichwould compel the railway employers to paythese men on the eight-hour basis after Janu-ary 1, as much as they now pay on the ten-hour basis. And he put every pressure uponCongress to pass this law by Saturday night,while he signed it on Sunday, because thefour masterful chiefs of the brotherhoodswould not postpone for a moment the strikethat they were going to precipitate Mondaymorning. Mr. Wilson all his life has beena critical publicist who has not hesitated tosay what he thouglit of certain kinds oflegislative and executive action. There isnot in the United States any man, it is rea- THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD a:s. f)-.: ••i-i. ( JLOfilctn Ircii Atwx-lailiti PRESIDE>rr WILSON—FROM A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH AT SHADOW LAWN. HIS SUMMER HOME AT LONG BRANCH. NEW JERSEY vjnablc to say, who—if in his accustomedplace as obsencr and critic he had looked onat this Oingressional performance—wouldhave excoriated the surrender with suchwealth and brilliancy of denunciation asWoodrow WiUon himself. It b not a question of concernmtMoJt for the finances of the railroadaimpanies. They will findmean^i to protect their own interests in whationd <»thrr people,ihey are a manly lot of men, and wc are sure it goes against their grain to be sneeredat as having been taken under the wing ofthe Government as if they were differe
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