Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-19
RAILROAD LABOR
HEAD APPROVES
Fred L. Feick Points Out Some
of Injustices Under Roose-
vest and Taft.

Fred L. Feick, Ind anas railroad la
Dor leader. stamps his approval ON
Wilson and Marshall, tells the wage
learners they are the greatest COVER
nors New Jersey and Indiana have
ever had and the greatest progressives
Of modern times.
He says the legislation passed I'M
der their leadership in their respect
I i've states warrants the hearty sup
/ port OF every railroad employee in this
country.
! lie warns the railroad employees to
beware of the full dinner pail" and
the steady job" arguments that have
been presented in past campaigns by
the republican party
/ He says pamphlets and circulars
: that are being distributed among rail-
road employees for the purpose of in
fuencing their votes for Taft and
I Roosevelt are deceiving.
Compare the records of Wilson and
Marshall as governors of their re-
spective states as against the record
OF Roosevelts seven years as presi-
dent and the four years of his chief
lieutenant, Taft
Can the railroad employees afford to
vote for Taft or Roosevelt. men who
have the backing of the financial in
terests of this country?
Can it be possible that the railroad
employees have forgotten the attitude
assumed by the various railroad or
CARNATIONS i'll the campaign of 1908,
when labor in general denounced
Judge Taft, the man who issued the
famous injunction against the rail
road employees in 1898 which was, in
my opinion. the greatest blow labor
! organizations of this country have
ever received.
Railroad men were thrown in jails,
their families deprived of the neces.
stiles of life; all because the railroad
engineers as an organization, dared
to stand up for what they believed
rinCiples of righteousness and pro,
lection to their fellowmen The
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Journal commenting on Judge Taft's
decision in May. 1898. says
| Judge Taft's decision proclaims
members of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers a band of conspir
ators."
Also I'VE cannot accept Judge
Taft's decision in any other light thar
treason to republican institutions and
The liberties of the people. 1t is, vii
lie and ought to be denounced and re
undated by all liberty loving men"
, Frank p. Sergeant, then president
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and representative heads O
the various railroad labor organiza
tions all over the country, bitterly
criticised and condemned Judge Taft:
decision, which has been a menace t.
organized labor from that day to this
Roosevelt knew of Judge Taft's la
Dor record, and the protests which
came from organized labor in general
= from every state in the union. Ye
III the face of these protests from
organized labor Roosevelt with tn,
IL political machinery of the nation I'm
Ger his control and ably assisted b!
the trusts. forced the nomination o
: Judge Taft upon the people in 1908
This can easily be explained wheI
you consider the recent disclosure
:. before the Clapp senatorial investiga
ton committee. Under ROosevelts
administration the trusts have hat
absolute control over the affairs o
- cur government. Large contribution
made by the trusts to the republican
national campaign committee durini
Roosevelt's term as president account
r fCI it.
n At the present time Roosevelt ha
r the support of Perkins, the friend o
l. labor: Perkins, the organizer of TIL
l. steel trust.
The steel trust which will not a.