The Cairo bulletin., 1910-09-06
Teddy LEADS
| LABOR PARADE
|ES STERDAY IN TOWN or FARGO,
tNoRTii DAKOTA, WAS A MOST
II EVENTFuL ONE.
H|N FELL ON Crowd
Aosevclt Caused Women Folk to Get
H Under Covcr---Warmly Endors.
n ed Labor Unions in His
H Main Speech.

|Hfargo, Sept. Sin an address at
|and park here today before a great
|pr day crowd, Roosevelt spoke
|kds OF warm condemnation for tie
4 Hleral jude Guidon, who was presid-
| because the Judge in introducing
NJ had shown himself as being in
|ppathy with the laboring man,
Amido1 said the people shouldsnot
|Eet It was Vie laboring mans day.
suggested that the laboring man
|gers wrong by congress by the
#-passage Of liability law.
lNhen Roosevelt reached that part
II his speech advocating workinit
|n's compensation he said OF Amir
that he was delighted to hear.
Ilh utterances from a federal judge.
heavy shower fell duing 1Roose-
ats speech. Roosevelt began the
II by laying the corner stone of the
H library building of Fargo college
aeral hundred stood in the t.riz-
| g rain to hear the colonels
lbch.
| 4 the afternoon parade headed
the trade unions Of Fargo, took
fseyelt through the town. Lieut..
acrnor Lewis, Republican, rode by
lsevelt's side. Governor Burke
is Democrat, was further back
he line The United Commercial
Ilyellcrs OF North Dakota, who
le in line, helped amuse the crowd,
| ly had an old stage coach, on top
which was a man dressed to i'm
fonate Roosevelt. He was carry
a rifle and stuffed bear.
hen Roosevelt reached the park
lfounh an vR0Fmoss crowd wait
/ Behind him fluttered an old
ered flag It was the one under
4 zhh he delivered an oFation on the
lth of July thirty years ago at
BORA, N. d.
had hardly arrived when the
81 started, and soaked nearly ev-
body. Roosevelt put on his rain
and went among the crowd and
the women to go stand under the
[sr. When he filled the stand with
hen he sountered through the
I'D, needless of the rain, shaking
Ills.
liter ten minutes of rain the sun
ilenly broke through the clouds
tie shower was over.
his speech the colonel made it
h that he did not wish 20 give a
lket endorsement to everything
i by the labor unions, although
bald he believed them to be neccs
in modern life, and he thorough
them. "
[NR. RoCSEVELT'S ADDRESS.
#bncluding a talk of half an hour
| |tRoosevelt spoke as follows:
Zlomen and children should beyond
luestion, be protected and in
case there can be no question
the state should act. They should
particular objects of our solici
and they Should be guarded in
Effective fashion against the de-
HAS of a too greedy commercial
II On my rectnt trip in the neigh
Hood of Scranton and Wlkes-Bar
livery one spoke to- agreed as
|9ihe immense Improvement that
#lbeen wrought by the effective en-
Hiement of the laws prohibiting
EiIren under the age of fourteen
from working and prohibiting
|5len from working more than ten
Hits a day. Personally, | think ten
too long, but, be this as II may,
ID Ehours a day was great advance.
|alnong the planks in the platform
he American Federation Cf Labor
are some to which | very
Kbgly subscribe. Tney are:
d Free schools; free text books,
h compulsory education.
Fl work-day of not more than
@lt hours.
II Release from employment one
Ii in seven.
q The abolition of the sweat-shop
a bm
II Sanitary inspection Of factory,
|#kshop. mine and home.
Liability of employers for in
T. to body or loss Of life.
regard the demand in this form
f lnadeauate. Wha: we need is an
4 Iamatically fixed compensation for
i Injuries received by the employee
HIM course of his duty, this being
IN Hlitely better for the employee and
II i inst to the employer. The only
will be lawyers of that un-
3 #tabIe class which exists chiefly
on lawsuits of this ma
III The passage and enforcement
= lici,, apti.ehild labor laws which
s cover every portion OF this
l