Putnam patriot., 1908-10-16
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TAFT LAB0R'S FR|EHD
Rendered Valuable Service to
 Railroad Men.
THE ToLeD0-ANN ARR0R CASE
Advice Given In Judge Tzft's Decision Adopted by the Railway Brother hoocs-Oemocrs.ic Politicians Use Triekery to Deceive the Toilers.

Trickery to Deceive the Toilers.
 The members of the various brother. hoods connected with fiIe great fail. road systems of the country are gen orally regarded as possessing mDre than the average degree Of infelli- genee Their caIiings and the oiJlfga lions spfInging from those callings make the possession by them os high order of intelligence indispensable
 Notwithstanding this fact the same system of absurd fflsehood Is relied on to deceive and trick them Into with dra awing their support from the Repub- licau party that L. in general Hse by Democratic politicians 10 influence even the coI4m0nest ard most ignorant Of the nnskilled laltoferH of the country.
 One form which this system of trick cry most frequently takes Is that of limiting at what terrible things Wi. Ham II. Taft did against labor organ. izafion and lts members while he WAS on the bench
 The one official net and declaration of Judge Taft which k being used In that way OH railroad men is his deci- sion in what Is known as the Toledo Ann Arbor case. Yet in n.t ease through his decision .iuige Taft ren- dered an actual. tangible and really invalua be service to the cause of labor organization. Ills advice given 10 labor organizations in that case has been generally adopted by the various broth erhoods and their members. One of the rules of great labor organization. the Brotherhood of Engineers. which was the cause of the trouble rule l2i has long since been voluntarily drop ped as being contrary to the best infer ests of both the public and the organ. ization itself.
 More than ail that. Judge Tafts de- eisi5n in the Toledo.Ann Arbor ease contains as good. broad and sound la. bor doctrine as ever found it's way into print
 New. what was that Toledo.Ann Ar bos caspf Most enlightened raiirna men knew all about H. Many of fhem particularly the younger generation oi then. d8 npt.
 \ strike of locomotive engineers pre- vailed on the Toledo. Ann ArbBr aud North Michigan railway One If the rules If the brotherhood trule 12l re qnired In substance that when SD or deied by the head of the organization the men of the brotherhood or other roads should refuse to handle the cars of the road on which the strike pre- vniied
 This rule was dangerous one. Ii probably never should have beer adopted. The attempt to enforce it 1T this ease brought eight or ten railroads Into court. They sought protection against what on its face was at least an unwise policy for any body of mer te adopt aud lnv olvcd In operation [ possible stoppage of the carrying com meree of the entire country.
 It was case of sympathetic strike And the sympathetic strike stands to day. from choice repudiatcd hs all re spousible organizations of laboring peo ple and their members
 he principal outcome of that Anf Arbor case WAS that the right of em ployees to leave thelr empioymen whenever dissatisfied with It's condi tons was fixed beyond all possible fn ture question aud some admirable ad vice given to the members of the or ganzntion. to which they have faith fully lived up both individually ant collectively. since.
 We wish to make plain If We can, said Judge Taft in his decision. Ito tn, intelligent and generally law abiding men who compose the Brotherhood Q Locomotive Engineers. as well as t' | their usually conservative chief officer what we cannot believe they apprcci | ate-thst, notwithstanding their per feet organization and their charitable temperance and other elcsating an, most useful purposes. the existence An' enforcement of yale l2 under thelr or ganic law make the whole brotherhoo, . criminal conspiracy against the law of the country
 That the rendering of this decision by Judge Taft was. then. in result al | enduring service to all railroad mel | instead Of emhodying anything con l ficting with their rights and privileges | before the law must appear plain t' | any ordinary man. If there still re | mained any doubt on that score i | would he removed hy the refectioi | that the rules laid down by Judge faf i in that case arc now made a part q ! the contracts and agreements of al | great railroad hrutherhoosis.