The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-22
LAB0R's GREAT OPPORTUNITY
Railroad Labor Leaders on the Roose-
 welt and Taft Candidates.

Fred l.. Feick, 1ndiana,s Railroad Labor leader, stamps his approval on
 Wilson and Marshall and tells the wage eaFners they are | he greatest Governors New Jersey and Indiana have ever had and the greatest Pro- gressives of modern times. Says the legislation passed under their leader ship in their respective states war rants the hearty support of every rail- road employee in this country Warns the railroad employees to beware of the Full Dinner Pau' and the Steady Job, arguments @1at have been pre- sented in past canpaigns by the Re- circulars that are being distributed among railroad employees for the pur- pose of influencing their votes for Taft pa pare ~ the record ece = of Wiison and Mar shall as Governors of their respective states as against the record of Roose- velt's seven years as President and the four years of his chief lieutenant, Taft. Can the railroad employees af- ford to vote for Taft or Roosevelt, men who have the backing of the financial possible that the railroad employ yees have forgotten the attitude assumed by bhe various railroad organizations in the campaign of 1908. when Labor in general denounced Judge Taft, the man who issued the famous injunction against the railroad employees in 1893 which was. in my opinion. the great est blow labor organisations of this country have ever received. Railroad men were thrown in jai1s, their fam flies deprived of the necessities of life; all because the railroad engineers as an organization, dared to st&nd up for what they believed principles of righteousness and protection to their fellow men.
 The Brotherhood of Locomotive iE5n- gineers' Journal commenting on Judge Taft's decision in May. 1s93 says: bers of the Brotherhood of Locorno- tive Engineers band of conspirators.'
 Also. We cannot accept Judge treason to Republican institutions and the liberties of the people. It is; will be and ought to be, denounced and re- pudiated by all liberty loving men," of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and represent heads of the various railroad labor organiza- criticised and condemned Judge Taft's decision, which has been menace to organized labor from that day to this. bor record, and the protests which came from organized labor in general from every state in the Union. Yet ganized labor Roosevelt with the po- lttica1 machinery of the nation under his control and ably assisted byl the trusts. forced the nomination of Judge Taft upon the people in 1908
 This can easily be explained when you consider the recent disclosures be- fore cne ClaDD senatorial investigation Committee. Under Roosevelt's admin istration the trusts had absolute con- trol over the affairs of our govern ment. Large contributions made by the trusts to the F6Iub1ican Nation al Campaign Committee during Roose- ve1t's term as President accounts for 1t.
 At the present time Roosevelt has the support of Perkins, the organizer of the Steel Trust which will not al- low Union man in their plant and works it's men twelve hours per day, days. He has the backing of ths liar vester Trust; he has the backing of every trust magnate which IS opposed to organized labor.
 Read the record of the Steel Trust and it's vicious methods.
 Read between the lines of the. cor respondence between EIarrin1an, the railroad magnate, and Roosevelt.
 Is it possible that the wage earners of this country have forgotten that government hired 5000 Chinese coo1ies to work upon the Panama Canal a nine centsS per day. Roosevelt The Man Who Professed to
 Be the Friend of Labor.
 We had him in the panic when no man could get dollar of his own mon ey out of the bank; when clea1 ing house certificates was the only money, and when industry was paralyzad. gag-rule prohibiting government em- p1oyees, FREE AMERICAN CITI- ZENS, to speak of their grievances, or complain of their wages
 Tn 1908 he condemned the Democrats, | Bryan and organized labor for oppos- ing government by injunction.
 During his seven years as President,