FOOTNOTES:
[89] The most plausible argument in favor of the position taken by the
employing group is that no employer should be forced to decide matters
as intimately connected with the welfare of his business as the ones
relating to his labor costs and shop discipline with national union
leaders, since the latter, at best, are interested in the welfare of the
trade as a whole but rarely in the particular success of _his own_
particular establishment.
[90] The turn in public sentiment really dated from the threat of a
strike for the eight-hour day by the four railway brotherhoods in 1916,
which forced the passage of the Adamson law by Congress. The law was a
victory for the brotherhoods, but also extremely useful to the enemies
of organized labor in arousing public hostility to unionism.
[91] See below, 259-261, for a more detailed description of the Plan.
[92] The Transportation Act included a provision that prior to September
1, 1920, the railways could not reduce wages.
[93] A Protestant interdenominational organization of influence, which
investigated the strike and issued a report.
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