The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
New York Democratic Candi-
 date Upheld By Union
NO TROUBLE OVER LABOR
Chairman Huppich Issues Statement Giving Part of Letter From Sugar Company in Reference to
 Payment of Fines

New York, October 2S-John A. Dix,
 democratic nominee for governor, spent several hours here this afternoon con- ferring with Chairman Huppich of the democratic state committee and other leaders of the state campaign. There is no controversy between labor and ourselves" said Mr. Dix after the conference. There is no labor trouble in our mills. Any one who wants to can soon find out what the situation is. All
 that will be necessary is to go to the of speaking for itself and has competent | spokesmen.'
 Mir Huppich tonight gave out a state
 ment signed by officer sand members of
 the Wallpaper Printers and Color Mix
 CTS union at Glen Falls, Hudson's Falls
 and Schuylersville.
 l After reciting the number of hours the employees of the Standard Wall Paper
 company work, the statement declares
 that the wages paid these employees al-
 ways compared favorably with the wages
 paid employees in other wallpaper fac | tories.
 l Chairman Huppich of the democratic state committee issued the following statement tonight, together with what he said was a copy of a letter written to the directors of the American Sugar Re- l fining company by its counsel from John l G. Johnson. John B. Stanchfield, James R. Sheffield and Henry B. Closson Tn | view of the statement made by MT. Stim- son today that he had collected from the sugar trust all that was due to the gov ernment when he consented to take from the company about $2.000o0O in full settle- ment of all claims against them, it is l very interesting to read the letter ad- dressed to the trusts directors by their l counsel, who were thoroughly familiar with all the facts and who admit lia- bility to the government of about $9,000,- l 900. Certainly the counsel to the com pany did not exaggerate In any way the l trusts liability. Comment uptn the let | ter and upon the position in which it places MT. Stimson is entirely unneces- | sary."
 l The letter dated April 26, 1909. is addressed to "the directors of the American Sugar Refining company" It follows in part:
 | "A compromise having been made | by which the government, which has
 agreed to accept in full of its claim against the company the sum of $2,- | 0UU,UUU Tn addition 10 the payment Of | the amount of the judgment, viz: One hundred and thirty-four thousand dol
 lars, already entered. we think 1t
 proper in view of the very large amount to put in writing the reasons which | induced us to adyise.'
 | Here the letter reviews the history | of the case and continues:
 l "The total amount for which the gov
 ernment threatened to sue amounted
 to nearly ss,000.0o0.
 1 we were of the opinion that there was a reasonable chance of success in resisting the re-liquidations as well
 as the forfeitures.
 l We were heavily handicapped by l the fact that 1t would be necessary | for us to overcome a ruling made by | & distinguished member of the federal | bench. The points involved are exceed ingly close ones-such as we, as law yers, would have taken great pleasure | in arguing.
 1 We felt compelled, however to ad- wise your company to do what we, In
 its place. would have done. Because of this compulsion we advised you to make the compromise which has been
 made and we think you would not have
 discharged your duty to your company 1 if you had not acted upon our ad- vice."