The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-02
Statement Is Issued Promising Legislation for Labor f
 He Is Elected
EXPLANATION IS GIVEN
 OF 4 COURT DECISION
Taft Accuses Bryan and Fuller of GarbIing Reports of Injunction Cases and Says They Did Not
 Give the Real Facts.

Buffalo, N. r., November 1.-Judge Taft caused this statement to be issued here tonight as coming from him:
 Ut was brought to MT. Tafts attention tonight that a number of labor leaders who have no sympathy with MT. Com pers in his attempt to commit the entire vote of labor to the democratic party were nevertheless in great concern lest the defeat of MT. Bryan and MT. Com pers, which now seems to them certain, would lead to reprisals on the part of the new administration under MT. Taft and to a. refusal on his part to continue the good work for labor which had been done by MT. Roosevelt and at his instance by republican Congress-"
 In this stateraent tonight MT. Taft said |:
 ''I have been honored by MT. Roose- welt in the last four years in being called to assist as an advisor in respect to all the executive and legislative measures projected in his administration in the in- terest of labor, and I have had a very deep sympathy with all that has been done. There are other measures in the interest of labor that ought to be adopt ed. The 16-hour bill ought probably to be amended. The compensation for goy- efnment employees act ought to be en- larged and liberalized with a view to nak- ing the government liable in the same way as private employer for the injury of its workmen suffered while in it's em- pioy. It is the legitimate and approved practice of labor organizations to propuae legislation of this kind to the executive for recommendation and to Congress fer action. and 1t will be a pleasant duty on my part, if l an elected, as l expect to be, to consider all such labor prpposi- tions and to urge upon Congress those measures approved in the republican platform as well as such others as com mend themselves to my judgment in my desire to aid labor. The functions pf the commissioner of labor may we'll be en- larged to make the bureau more useful to the cause of labor, and all proposals in that direction will meet my hearty con- currence. The bitterness and injustice of the attacks made upon me by MT. Bryan by MT. Gompers and by Mir Fuller will not in the slightest degree turn me from my consistent attitude toward labor of sympathetic interest in it's progress and an earnest desire to aiu in every way that federal legislation may legitimately do it.
 'The statement made by Mr. Fuller that l refused to give a hearing to laboring
 
 of 10 per cent made by the receivers of railroad company grows out of his failure to note full and complete decision on the subject showing not only full con- sideration but the fact that I called in another judge to help me- as well as the submission of a great deal of evidence, and it's careful consideration. The fail- ure of the men having 30 days notice of the proposed order to object to it until the day before the order was to go into effect led them to suspend the order, be- cause there was not time for a hearing, but full opportunity to modify or re- yoke it was given upon five-days' notice of the employees to the receiver, and this opportunity was improved by them and the hearing had. The statements of MT. Bryan and MT. Fuller on this subject in- clude garbed sentences from one of two opinions. and give the impression that the court reached exactly the opposite conclusion from that which it in fact reached in respect to the propriety of hearing in such cases. A reference to the decisions on the subjects in the 62 Fed, rep. IT will confirm this statement and show the utter injustice of MT. Full CTS attack
 The case reported later in 62 Fed. rep 6s9 was memorandum opinion which should have preceded the opinion reported in the 62 Fed. rep. 17, and the real de- cision reached was contained in the lat ter. This may have misled MT. Fuller and Mir. Bryan, but it did not justify the use of garbled extracts from the earlier opinion
 The following telegram received today by Judge Taft was made public by him: Every absolutely independent oil man l have seen. interested in the production, lnaut1factI1re and sale of netroIe1ifn and it's products, whether democrat or repub- lican, and I likewise. interested notwith- standing John D. Roclkefellers statement, will vote for you, and hope for your elec- ton by an overwhelming majority. I sub init that if we, fighting the greatest of / trusts, wish you selected, labor should not be fooled by Bryan or the democratic party. but vote for you and the restora- tion of confidence.
 "CHARLES RUSSELL BURKE,
 ''116 Broad Street, New York"