Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-28
ATTACKS LETTER
 ROOSEVELT SENT
a \. Fuller Writes to the
 President.
'DN TAFT'S LABOR RECORD


 P. h. Grace There Was No Refer- encs to the Candidates Decision Af- ssotins the Employees of tho cinoin. nati, New Orleans and Texas Pa. eifie Railroad-Also Declares Pans- ma Matters Were Not Discussed Fully. Pittsburg, Oct. 2S.-H. R. Fuller of Beaver Falls, Pa, national legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Bremen and Railroad Trainmen, has made public the following letter sent by him to President Roosevelt:
 sT am at loss to understand why Nr. Grace should seek information and ldvice regarding Judge Taft's attitude Oward the railroad employees of the country from the very one whose influ- snce and administration were used to bring about his nomination and is now Ieing used to secure his election when Nr. Taft's labor decisions have been discussed in the lodge rooms and print "a and commented upon in the maga- lines of the various organizations of Rbor, including those of the Brother lood of Railroad Trainmen, of which Er. Grace and myself are members.
 .Had he consulted such publications le would have been given the com Dlete labor record of MT Taft rather han . partial one, and both he and lis fellow employees throughout the sountry who read your reply would be b possession of the facts rather than being in the position of having been nisled by the president of the United btates.
 Decision h Ohio.
 aThe most important part of MT. raft's labor record is conspicuous by Is absence from your reply, and it Is b supply this deficiency that I write his letter."
 MT. Fuller then refers to the decision If Judge Taft in the United States cir .uit court for the southern district of Ohio April 30, 1894, declining the peti- lion of employees of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific rail- ,oad that an order of the receiver re- lucing wages 10 per cent be rescinded. Be quotes at length from the decision b which Judge Taft states that from | strictly legal standpoint the employ Ies have no standing in this court to sall for an adjudication of any rights. The court is limited in the exercise of fs discretion to such action as may be consistent with the preservation of the Droperty and it's administration in the interests of those who own 1t" The reduction was approved.
 Taking up another phase of Judge raft's record, the letter states:
 "You also failed to give all of MT. raft's record with regard to important abor matters on the Panama canal. Dn Jan. IS, 1906, Mir. Taft, together with his staff from the Panama ca nal, went before the house committee In appropriations and asked that the operation of the eight hour law be suspended on that work"
 Eight Hour Law.
 The letter then quotes evidence giv- Sn before the committee by Judge Taft, J. F. Stevens, chief engineer; T. P. Shonts, chairman of the isthmian sanal commission; R. s. Benson. gen. sral auditor, and D. W. Ross, general purchasing officer.
 Continuing, the letter states:
 ssAs a result of the testimony of !hese gentlemen congress placed pro- vision in the urgent deficiency bill uspending the operation of the eight hour law in the construction of the sthmian canal. True 1t is that this provision applied to alien labor only, yet so far as Mir. Taft and his staff were concerned they desired it to ap- ply to all classes of labor, Americans included"