The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-08-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Washington Correspond
ent of The Times.

en- trust continuance of its privilege
to plumber the consumer while at the
same time paying its workers starva-
ton wages, page from the hearings
in connection with the Lawrence
strike inquiry makes interesting read
ing. The witness is Miss Sanger, a
trained nurse, page 226, Hearings
on House Resolution 400 and 433)
Mr.. Pou. Miss Sanger, were you
instrumental in taking number Of
strikers children away from Law
renee during the strike?
Miss Sanger. Yes, sir.
Mr.. Pou. Did you talk with those
children about their manner of living?
Miss Sanger. Yes, sir. found
that the children-there were 1l9 of
them in my party-seldom ate meat,
and their physical condition was the
most horrible l have ever seen. In
the first place four of the smallest
children had chicken pox, and they
had not received any medical atten-
ton. They were walking about
among the other children apparently
without noticing the chicken pox or
diptheria; one child had diptheria.
Of the l19 children only four of them
had underwear, and it was bitterly
cold. We had to run all the way
from the station to Labor Temple
after we got to New York to keep
from freezing.
Mr.. Foster. You say only four had
Undertaking; what was the ,condi-
ton Of their outer clothing?
Miss Sanger. 1t was simply in
rags. Their coats were worn to
shreds.
Mr.. Foster. Were the children
pale and thin?
Miss Sanger Yes, Sir want to-
say that when they had supper it
would have brought tears to your
eyes to see them grab for the meat
with their bare hands.
Mr.. Foster. Did any of them have
on wooden clothing of any sort?
Miss Sanger. No, sir.
Mr.. Foster. And yet they all work.
ed in wooden mills?
Miss Sanger. Yes, sir.
In his veto Mr.. Taft has much to
say about the "woolen industry, y"
and foreign labor" He makes no
mention of these poor victims of the
wooden trusts greed.
How Democrats Helped Labor.
Chairman w. B. Wilson of the
Committee on Labor of the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives,
pointed out in a recent speech in the
House that the labor interests Of the
country had received more consider
alton from the present Democratic
House than had come to them for
many years.
He laid special stress on the fact
that Democrats had restored to gov
eminent employees the right to petit
tion-a constitutional privilege that
had been taken away from them by
executive orders under both Roose-
welt and Taft-and on the further
fact that the Democratic party had
lived up to its platform promises in
the treatment of labor. Mr.. Wilson
cited fifteen specific measures bene-
ficial to labor that had been passed
by the House at the present session
at the request of the workers OF the
nation.
Prominent among the list is the
eight-hour-bill, extending the opera
ton of this law to work done for the
government as we'll as work done by
the government; the anti-injunction
bill, to protect workingmen during
wage disputes; the contempt bill, to
provide for trial by jury in cases OF
indirect contempt; the bill creating a
Department of Labor, and the inves-
tigation of Taylor and other systems
of scientific shop management"
which impose undue hardships on
workingmen.
Wilson Progressive, But Safe.
Governor Wilson has quoted the
fears of the business interests that
the tariff may be reduced too sudden
ly in the event of Democratic success |