The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-17
He Declares That the Laws Delays Should Be RenedIsd
 By An Act of Congress
SPECIAL ATTENTION IS
 GIVEN ID LABOR AFFAIRS
MT. Taft Declares That He Intends To Recommend to Congress Leg isIstion To Carry Out Prom
 ises on lnjunctions.

Chicago, September 16.-Speaking with great earnestness to a mass meeting in Orchestra hall tonight. President Taft declared that no question before the American people today is more important ! than the improvement of the admiris- tration of justice and announced his .n- tention of recommending to Congress the appointment of commission to take up 1 the question of the laws delay in the ! federal courts The President said he l hoped that the report of this commission,
 when rendered, would serve also as q
 guide to the states function in effecting
 remedial legislation.
 l The President, at the end of day of sightseeing. of baseball of receptions
 and dining, received an uproarious greet 1 ing when he reached Orchestra hall to- night to make the only set speech of his stay in Chicago. Recalling that 1t was in this same hall during the campaign of a year ago that he faced an audience of more than 1900 workingmen and made one of the crucial addresses of his cam paign, the President assured his hear CTS he had not forgotten his campaign
 promises and the platform declarations
 of his party.
 1 MT. Taft devoted the entire first part 1 of his speech to the subject of labor and 1 said he intended to recommend 10 Con- l gress In his first message legislation to
 carry out the platform promise as to in- | junctlons-that no injunction or restrain- 1 ing order should be issued without notice except where irreparabe injury would
 result from delay, in which case speedy hearing should be granted.
 | The President declared anew his belief l in organized labor and congratulated the 1 leaders of the movement that "they have l set their faces like flint against the doc | trines of socialism"
 The President was frequently interrupt- ed with cheers.
 Taft's Address
 President Taft spoke as follows: My Fellow Citizens of Chicago: It is just about a year ago tonight that I made a speech in this hall to some 1900 members of the railroad organizations,
 in which I attempted to convince them
 that there was nothing in my decision as l circuit judge in labor injunction cases | which ought to make them vote against | me TOT the pTeSlutfCy IL was d tiit- ical question in the campaign, and as
 review that whole controversy. there
 was hardly another speech in my cam
 paign of greater importance to me than
 that one; and in view of the result of the election look back upon 1t now with
 especial interest. This hall, therefore. suggests one of the subjects upon which I shall speak to you.
 You will remember perhaps. that the head of the Federation of Labor, who had declared for my opponent. was anx- ious to carry the whole union labor vote against me, and the ground for his action was my decisions as judge, wac put under the burden which I think no other candidate for the presidency ever had to bear of explaining and defending in a political contest the decisions which I had made as a judge upon the bench. It was assumed by many, who, though themselves familiar with the situation, that l would lose a large part of the labor vote which had heretofore been evenly divided between the republicans and the democrats The results showed that these assumptions were incorrect. and that labor men-union labor as we'll as non-union labor men-thought for themselves, voted according to their own judgment and declined to be delivered in body to one party or another, and on the whole, I do not think that in that election I suffered materially from the loss of labor votes.
 Cause of Labor.
 ''In the discussions I asser>s1 that I was as much interested as any one in maintaining the cause of labor, when labor, organized or unorganized, by prop CT means sought to better its condition by legislation or otherwise. l said that l expected to recommend to Congress, If I were elected, that interstate rail- roads be required to adopt any addl- tional devices found useful for the pur- pose of saving from loss of life limb of employees engaged in the dangerous business of railroading also said that 1 favored the adoption of legislation lock- ing to a proper definition of the cases in which preliminary injunctions might issue without notice defining the prop CT procedure in such matters. Now that the election has come and gone I want to take this opportunity of saving that I have not forgotten my promises or those of the platform and I propose In the next session of Congress to recom- mend the legislation on the subject of injunction which was promised in the republican platform and to see wheth- CT by such legislation it Is not possl- ble to avoid even the few cases of abuses that can be cited against the fed- .erald courts in the exercise of their jurtsdiction.
 q do not think trades unionisn was greatly aided by the attempt to drag all organized labor into politics. and to induce 1t to vote one way; but that docs not prevent my placing a proper esti- mate on the immense good for labor in general which Its organization and it's ef-