The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
STATEMENT OF TAFT
MAKES PROMISES TO LABoRERs
 IF ELECTED.
Says He Will Consider All Labor Pro- posals And Urge Upon Congress
 To Pass The Approved

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 Buffalo. N. Y.. Nov. 1.-Judge Taft caused this statement to be issued here tonight as coming from him:
 Tt was brought to MT. Tafts at- tention tonight that a number of labor leaders who have no sympathy with Mir. Gompers in his attempt to commit the entire vote of labor to the Demo- cratic party. were nevertheless in great concern lest the defeat of Mir. Bryan and Mir. Gompers. which now seems to them certain. would lead to reprisals on the part of the new administration under Mir. Taft and to a refusal on his part to continue the good work for labor which had been done by Mir. Roosevelt and at his instance by Re- publican Congress"
 In the statement MT. Taft said
 T have been honored by MT. Roose- welt in the last four years in being called to assist as advisor in respect to all the executive and legislative measures projected in his administra- tion in the interest of labor. and have had very deep sympathy with all that has been done. There are other measures in the interest of labor taht ought to be adopted. The six teen hour bill ought probably to be amended, the compensation for gov ernment employees act ought to be en- larged and liberalized with view to making the government liable in the same way as a private employer for the injury of it's workmen suffered while in its employ. It Is the legiti- mate and approved practice of labor organizations to propose legislation of this kind to the executive for recom- mendation and to Congress for action, and it will be a pleasant duty on my part, if I am elected, as I expect to be, to consider all such labor proposals and to urge upon Congress those measures approved in the Republican platform as we'll as such others as commend themselves to my judgment in my desire to aid labor. The func- tions of the Commissioner of Labor may we'll be enlarged to make the bureau more useful to the cause of labor and all proposals in that direc- tion will met my hearty concurrence. The bitterness and injustice of the attack made upon me by Mir. Bryan, by MT. Gompers and by MT. Fuller, will not in the slightest degree turn me from my consistent attitude to- ward labor of sympathetic interest in its progress and an earnest desire to aid in every way that Federal legis- lation may legitimately do it.
 "'The statement made by MrN Fuller that l reIuSSu IO give Il lO Aa- boring men in respect to cut In their wages of ten per cent made by the receivers of a railroad company, grows out of his failure to note full and complete decision on the subject. showing not only a full consideration. but the fact that 1 called in another judge to help me, as well as the sub mission of a great deal of evidence and it's careful consideration. The failure of the men having thirty days notice of the proposed order to object to 1t | until the day before the order was 10 go into effect lead to refusal to suspend the order, because there was not time for hearing. but full oppor- | tunity to modify or revoke it was giv- l en upon five days notice of the em- | pIoyes to the receiver and the oppor- | tunity was improved by them and the | hearing had. The statements of MT. Bryan and Mir. Fuller on this subject | include garhled sentences from one Of two opinions, and give the impression that the court reached exactly the op- 1 posite conclusion from that which 1t | in fact reached in respect to the pro- | priety of a hearing in such a case. A reference to the decisions on the sub jects in the 62 Fed. Rep. IT, will con- | firm this statement and show the ut ter injustice of Mir. Fullers attack. 1 "'The case reported later in 62 Fed. l Rep. 669 was a memorandum opinion which should have preceded the opin- 1 lon reported in the 62 Fed. Rep. IT. and the real decision reached was con- l tained in the latter. This may have | misled Mir. Fuller and MT. Bryan, but | 1t did not justify the use of garbled ] extracts from the earlier opinion. 1 The following telegram received to. day by Judge Taft was made public bJ | him:
 Every absolutely independent oil man I have seen, interested in the pro | duction, manufacture and sale oi petroleum and its products, whether | Democrat or Republican. and I like. wise, notwithstanding John D. Rocke felIer's statements will vote for yol and hope your election by an over whelming majority. I submit that fl we fighting the greatest of trusts wish you selected. labor should not b, fooled by Bryan or the Democratic party but vote for you and the restora, tion of confidence.
 | (Signed)
 l Charles Russell Burke, "116 Broad Street.