New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-30
LABOR SCARES DEMOCRATS
HuppuCh, Much Concerned, De-
MES Children Work in His Mills.
PICTURES HAPPY OVERTIME
Only Two Months in Year Paper
Mills Demand Excess, He Says
Parker Flares Up.

State Chairman Huppuch and the other
managers OF the Democratic campaign are
still worrying tremendously over the labor
situation Mr.. Huppuch continued TO ex-
plain yesterday that the workmen in the
mills of the Standard Wall Paper Company
and the Iroquois Pulp and Paper Company
were not treated any worse than they were
In other factories of the same character.
The state chairman showed dispatch ne
had received from friend III Thomson,
which read: Hearst undoubtedly is going
to feature child labor in mills here. Photo
graphs of young children carrying fathers
dinner pals home taken to illustrate child
labor
There are no children working in the
mills in Thomson" declared Mr.. Huppuch.
THE youngest working there are between
the ages of eighteen and nineteen.
'As for the statement Of Chairman Prem
tice Of the Republican State Committee
that women and boys are working sixty
nine hours a week at the Northum-
berland Mills, want to say that there are
no boys there and the men and women who
work sixty-nine hours a week do so will
ingly and they are paid overtime at the
rate of one and a half times the regular
schedule for every hour Of work they do
in excess of ten hours a day.
There are probably not more than two
months out Of the year that We are obliged
to work overtime in order to get out orr
product. Then the employees only work
overtime for four nights out Of the six.
This is in pursuance Of an agreement with
the American Federation of Labor" de-
clared Mr.. Huppuch
Chairman Huppuch was considering get
ting up a statement in reply 20 the speech
Of Senator Root on Friday night when
Judge Alton 3. Parker came to the rescue
The speech of Senator Root unquestion-
ably caused much perturbation among the
Democratic managers, ard they were over
joyed to learn that Judge Parker had
undertaken TO make some sort Of reply.
This is the Parker statement:
$50 Senator Root decided to tell the
hundred thousand Republicans who have
made up their minds 10 vote against the
Republican state ticket that the reasons
they give for the action are unsound. that
the real way TO weaken Colonel Roosevelt
for 1872 is to give a victory now and the
way TO strengthen him for that contest is
to bury his ticket beneath a mountain of
ballots. I hazard the prediction that it
viii not persuade one of them that his
own reason was faulty"
Out Of the vast number Of letters the
Democratic managers say they have re-
ceived from Republicans saying they are go
ing TO vote for Dix, Chairman Huppuch
gave out the names Of just three. They
were Thomas B. Crazy president Of the
Binghanton Washing Machine Company
and president Of the Binghamton Shoe and
Rubber Company: Benjamin McFadden,
president Of the Commercial Envelope and
Box Company, OF Binghamton, and Arthur
J, Rutland. professor Of rhetoric at the
Binghamton Central High School
Chairman Huppuch reiterated yesterday
his statement that there would probably
not be any forecasts from the Democratic
MANAGERS. There can be no doubt about
our success" he declared. Told that Chair
man Prentice. Of the Republican State
Committee. had predicted that Stimson' 3
plurality above the Harlem River would be
from 10000 to 10000, Chairman HuppUCh
smiled and replied Mr.. Prentice will
wake I'D and hear the alarm clock ringing
on election night, guess, If not before
It is probable that the speech which John
A. Dix will make at the Carnegie Hall
meeting here on Wednesday night viii be
his last of the campaign. A great effort,
however. is being made to induce him 10
speak either in Albany or Troy.