Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-10-03

James r. MorriSey OF Chicago, mas
issued a statement at Jeru, Ind, giving
his reason for believing that labor
should support President wilson for
reelection. Mr.. Morrisey is chair
man of the Indiana cooperative leg
islative board of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive engineers, Order OF Rail
way Conductors, Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Firemen and Enginemen, and
chairman of the Indiana legislative
board Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, and Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen. He says;
"In my opinion that party serves
best the whole country which, by its
legislation, gives to all classes the OPP
portunity to employ their talents and
ability and to enjoy the fruits OF their
toll. In the attainment of the end,
compared with the legislation OF any
other political party in recent years,
the democratic party in its legislative
achievements stands pre-eminently
the best friend of the wage-earning
classes.
81 make the assertion, backed by the
specific enactments of a democratic
administration, which speak for them
selves.
Since 1912, congress has enacted
more than twenty-five laws directly in
the interest of labor, chief among
these laws l mention the following
specifically:
1.-The trades dispute act embracing
the relation of labor organizations to
the antitrust laws of the country the
regulation of the issuance of injunc-
tions and the guaranty of the right
of trial by jury for alleged contemptS
committed out of the presence of the
court, an act which determines once
and for all that labor is not a COM
modify.
"The department of labor law Gre
ating a department with a secretary
who shall be a member of the presi-
dents cabinet, the eight-hour law APP
plying to work done for the govern
ment as we'll as work done for the
government.
"The industrial commission bill TO
investigate the entire subject of in
dustrial relations between employer
and employee
1.-The income tax law which equaliz-
es government between the working
people and those who have amassed a
surplus; the rural credits law, which
is a God send to the farmers of the
country; the child labor law recently
enacted which makes it unlawful to
work children under fourteen years
of age in mines, factories, etc.
1.-THE federal compensation law for
the compensation of government en-
ployes injured while engaged in the
performance of their duties, which in
my opinion is the best law of its kind
ever enacted.
president Wilson has proven his
worth to labor by the things he has
stood for in the interest of the labor
ing class. 1t is the laboring people
who have to face the guns of the
enemy and he has kept us out of war.
Another act showing his attitude
toward labor, is his stand for the
eight-hour day for railroad employees
MIR. Hughes has not told labor
where he stands. Why, if he is sc
friendly toward labor, hasn't he sale
something for labor in the eight-houl
movement of railroad employees? He
vetoed a bill for two-cent passenger
fare on the railroads of New York
he vetoed a bill cutting the fare from
New York to its principal pleasure re.
sorts, the one most attractive to, anC
within reach of the poor people, Coney
Island, and while judge of the United
States supreme court, he concurred il
the decision of that court in which
they held the hatters' union and its
members of Danbury, Mass, liable fol
100000 to D. A. Lowe & Co., for boy
cotting. He wrote the decision hold
ing the Arizona anti-alien labor law
unconstitutional"