Arizona republican., 1911-12-03
RIGHT
 ON LABOR QUESTION

l The Workingnen of Arizona are | urged to compare the labor blanks of | the republican and democratic plat ! forms. The latter says: We pledge
 the constant efforts of the democratic party toward the full protect 'cn 0t | the rights of i,bor''-abOut as mean can be imagined and one which might have been written by the btteres, foe
 of organized labor without d twinge | of conscience.
 Contrast that inocuous utterance 1 with the following blanks in the re- publican platform of supreme inn portance to the workingmen of the state:
 We advocate liberal exemption laws and that heads of families shall be exempted by law from taxation on I property to the extent of S200." We pledge such legislation looking
 to the fixing of responsibility for wages due from corporations to their employees as shall obviate the loss of pay to the wage earner''
 We favor the passage of q law requiring that in letting contracts for all public printing for the state and counties and cities thereof they shall be let only to bidders whose
 printing plants pay taxes in Arizona and who pay wages to Arizona print CTS"
 We favor the enactment of fair and just compulsory arbitration law to adjust all differences arising be- tween labor and public utilities cor porations. associations or concerns" There isn't workingman in Ari- zona who doesnr believe that all men should pay their debts. but they. more than any other men, realize how often enforced idleness. sickness in family or other misfortune makes prompt payment impossible and real iZe the justice of a moderate eXemp- ton law as a protection against ava ricious creditors.
 That when man is compelled to sue for wages. he should not be compelled to do so at d loss to him self. is so obvious that argument in favor of the second plank quoted above is unnecessary.
 The justice in demanding that pub lie printing in Arizona be done by Arizona printers is selfevident Compulsory arbitration of disputes between workingmen and their em- ployers has proved of such inestim- able value on so many occasions in the past that a discussion of it's merits at this late day would seem unnecessary. However organized la bor through its representatives asked the party councils of both parties to state their positions on this impor- tant question. in order that they might he placed on record. The democrats refused tc do so. or at least did not do so. Just what influence F.. F.. EllinwOOd of the Cop per Queen and Fl PaSo X Southwest ern. and Frank Cox of the Southern Pacific had in preventing the incor- poration of a compulsory arbitration plank in the democratic platform may never he known. but that they had much influence. those who know their intimate relations with the head of the democratic ticket will not doubt for moment
 When the matter was brought up in the republican council in Phoenix. the most ardent champions of com pulsory arbitration were HOval Smith and John $. Williams. who had per sonal knowledge of its value as factor in preventing disastrous con flicts between labor and capital.
 Workingmen. as said above. are urged to carefully compare the two platforms as they relate to labor and be guided thereby, when they make up their minds as to how they shall vote on December F.