Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-13
Declines to Post Full Time and Keep Going Card" and Asks Pertinent
 Questions.
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
 SENDS SHARP REPLY
"What Has Emptied the Dinner Pail of Millions of Men
 Willing to Work.

Former Congressman Robert Baker has sent sharp reply to the sugges. ton from the New York Leather Belt ing company that industrial interests support the Taft-Sherman ticket to the end of restoring business activity. Mir. Baker has always been an ardent Bryan man, is now the president of the Austin Rotary Engine company, q young corporation that Is marketing a new rotary engine recently invented by a South Brooklyn friend, William K. Austin
 The Austin Rotary Engine company a few days ago received letter from the New York Leather Betting Co, offering republican campaign cards to be posted in industrial establishments. bearing the promise of full time" on the strength of republican victory. The method of campaigning for repub- lican votes through the corporations is resented by MT. Baker, who asks why the factories are not on full time now, in a republican administration.
 The correspondence is self-explana- tory. The letter received by the Aus tin Rotary Engine company was as follows:
 New York, July 22, 1908.
 "Gentlemen: We have tackled this notice upon the walls of our factories in Brooklyn and New York:
 Believing that the election of Taft and Sherman means a safe ana progressive business administration the day following their election we shall start this plant on FULL TIME AND KEEP GOING.'
 If you believe with us that by re lieying any uncertainty as to what the wage earner can expect in the event of electing men who will secure the business prosperity of this coun- try, we should be glad to have you > follow our example.
 AS members of the National Asso- citation of Manufacturers, the Ameri- can Hardware Manufacturers assoela- ton, the American supply and Ma lchinsry Manufacturers association, the National Credit Mems association, the Manufacturers Association or New York, the New York Board or Trade and Transportation, and other commercial bodies. if you will kindly fill in and return to us the enclosed card, we will supply you with laii time and keep going card, such as we have posted, and notify all these as sociations of your harmonious attl- tude.
 +Regardless of politics, once the manufacturers of this country join un- fversa1iy in this movement depression will cease.
 Lend us your help and post the card Full time and keep going
 Yours very truly, NEW TORI LEATHER BELTING COMPANY"
 This is the rep. sent by President Robert Baker of 2 Austin Rotary Engine company:
 'Brooklyn, N. T., July 25, 1908. New York Leather Betting Co,
 No. 51 Beekman St., New Hork-
 "Gentlemen: We nave your Of July 22. offering us copies of cards posted in your factories, which you say read as follows.
 :" Believing that the election or
 Taft and sherman means a saIe
 and progressive business admin
 istration the day following thelr
 election we shall start this plant on FULL TIME AND KEEP co
 ING."'
 '.Permit us to say we do not under stard. Why have you stopped youi eayfOrieS. why IS tue ui lLhlS SNN Yeep Going plant not now in opera ton? Why has there been any smut ting down by you and the other mem sers of the National Association oi Manufacturers, the American haru ware Manufacturers association, and the numerous other similar assooia tions to which you say you belong Did vou not assure us that Mckinley would insure a full dinner pair to all who desired to work? Was not this assurance renewed when your severa bodies indorsed Roosevelt and Fair hanks? Then what has emptied the dinner pail of millions of men who are willing to work? What greater re liance can be placed on this assurance than on the others? If you were falsf prophets before, how do we know yo'