Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-12-09

injured employee or to me u"pch
dents of one killed that he is or they
are entitled to To- compensation he
cause very few people ether Than h"
have been injured CT killed IN that
uccupation PEI hIpS on" OF the most
striking omission in TN" law IS thai
Il does not embrace rrac" officers
and other who's" lives may b" sacri'
feed in enforcing the laws of til"
United States. IN" terms OF 'hr
act providing compensation should b"
made more libelal than in the pres
cnt act.
The Congress mould without fnrth-
er delay pass model employer"
Ijlaility law for he District OF Colum
bia The emploiris' liability act re
Gently declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL, on
account OF apparently including IN ~
provisions employees engaged IN miri-
state commerce IS well as those Ell
gagged in Interstate commerce. has
been held by Ihr local ConrtS 10 b"
still IN effect so tar aS its provisions
applv to the District Of columbia.
There should be- 40 ambiguity un this
point II Their" J., any doubt on tn"
subject. the law should br r"ruact'd
with special reference 20 the Dis
trict o: Columbia This act however.
applies only to employees CT common
carriers. In all other occupations me
liability law OF the District is IN"
old common law. The severity and
Injustice Of the common law in this
matter has been i'll some degree or
another modified N th" majority q,
our states. and tn" only Jurisdiction
Congress should hr ahead and no,
behind the states q! the Union in ms
respect. A comprehensive employ
crS' liability law should be passed Tor
the District of Columbia.
renew my recommendation mad"
in a previous message that half hol-
DAYS b. granted ,Ilring summer to
all wage workers in government ON
plOr.
also renew my recommendation
| that the principl" OF the eight-h"ur
DAY should as rapidly ,and as far as
practicable be extended TO tn" entir"
work being carried on by the govern
ment: The present law should be
amended to embrace contracts on
those public works which tn" present
wording OF the act seems TO exclude
The Cause.
must earnestly urge upon the CON
gresS the duty of increasing the total
~ inadequate salaries now gwen TO
our ju1g1S On the whole there Is
no body of public servants who do as
valuable work, nor whose moncycd re-
ward is SO inadequate compared to
their work Beginning with III" sup
rene Court the judges should have
their salaries doubled. II is not be
! fitting the dignity Of the Nation that
! its most honored public servants
should b" paid sums so small compar-
cd to what they would earn in private
life that the performance or public
service by Them implies an exceeding
" heavy pecuniary sacrifice.
! II is earnestly to be desired that
some method should he devised for
doing away with the long delays
which now ol'ain in the admnistra-
ton Of Justice. and which o2erat"
with peculiar severity against per
sons of small means. and favor only
the very criminals whom il is most
desirable to punish These long de-
Laws in the final decisions Of cases
make in the aggregate a crying evil;
and a remedy should be devised.
At the las, election certain leaders
of organized labor made violent
and sweeping attack upon the entire
judiciary Of the country, an attack
! cOuched in such terms as to include
the most upright. honest and broad
minded judges. no less than those
of narrower mind and more restricted
outlook 1t was the kind OF attack
! admirably fitted to prevent any sue
cesSfuI attempt to reform abuses OF
the judiciary. because il gave the
champions NJ the unjust judge their
eagerly desired opportunity to shift
their ground into a championship OF
just judges who were unjustly as
sailed. Las; year. before the House
committee on the judiciary. these
same labor leaders formulated their
demands. spe cifying the bill that con
tanned them. refusing all compro-
mise. stating they wished the prin-
Cipie Of that bill or nothing. They
insist ed on provision that in a labor
dispute no Injunction should issue ex-
cept to protect a properly right. and
specifically provided that tn" right to
carry on business should MOI be con
strued as property right: and in a
second provision their bill made le-
cal in labor dispute any art or
agreement nv OF between two or more
persons that would not have been
unlawful Il done by single person.
in other words. this -. localized
blacklisting and boyco;ting in every
form. lccalizing. for instance. thos"
forms Of the secondary boycott
which the anthracite coal strike com
mission so urreservedly condemned:
while the right to carry on a busi-
ness was explicitly taken ont from
under that protection which The Law
throws over properly. The demand
was mad" that there should hc trial
nv jury in contempt cases. thereby
mrst seriously inpairing the authority
Of the courts All this represented a