Arizona republican., 1905-12-06

seventh congress, at its second ses- an employers liability law for the District of Columbia and in our navy yards. I renewed that recommenda- tion in my message to the fifty-eighth congress, at it's second session, and further suggested the appointment of commission to make a comprehen- sive study of employers liability, with view to the enactment, of a wise and constitutional law covering the sub ject, applicable to all industries within the scope of the federal power I hope that such a law will be prepared and enacted as speedily as possible.
 The national government has as a rule but little occasion to deal with the for midable group of problems connected more or less directly with what is known as the labor question, for in the great majority of cases these prob lems must be dealt with by the state and municipal authorities and not by | the national government. The nation al government mas control of the Dis trict of Columbia, however, and it should see to it that the City of Wash ington is made model city in all re- spectS, both as regards parks, public playgrounds, proper regulation of the system Of housing so as to do away with the evils of alley tenements, a proper system of education, a proper system of dealing with truancy and Juvenile offenders, a proper handling of the charitable work of the District. Moreover, there should be proper fac tory laws to prevent all abuses in the employment of women and children in the District. These will be useful chiefly as object lessons, but even this limited amount of usefulness would be of real national value.
 THE USE OF INJUNCTION.
 There has been demand for depriv- ing courts of the power to issue in- functions in labor, disputes. Such special limitation of the equity pow CTS of our courts would be most un- wise It is true that some judges have misused this power; but this does not justify denial of the power any more than an improper exercise of the power to call a strike by labor leader would justify the denial of the right to strike. The remedy is to regulate the proceed ure by requiring the judge to give due notice to the adverse parties before granting the writ, the hearing to be ex parte if the adverse party does not appear at the time and place ordered. What is due notice must depend upon the facts in the case; it should not be used as a pretext to permit violation of law, or the jeopardizing of life or property. Of course, this would rot authorize the issuing of a restraining order or injunction in any case in wnich it is not already authorized by existing law.
 renew the recommendation I made in my last annual message for ar In- vestigation by the department of com merce and labor of general labor con- ditions, especial attention to be paid to the conditions of child labor and childlabor legislation in the several states. Such an investigation should take into account the various problems with which the question of child labor is connected. It is true that these problems can be actually met in most cases only by the states themselves, but it would be well for the nation to endeavor to secure and publish com prehensive information as to the con- ditions of the labor of children in the different states, so as to spur up those