The Little River news., 1916-06-24
FRIEND OF THE
 LAB0RING MAN
Woodrow Wilson is a Friend of the LabOring Man; Hughes is Not.
 Railroad Men for Wilson.
(BY CLIO HARPER)

Woodrow Wilson is the friend of labor"
 Charles Evans Hughes is not friend of labor
 This is the ground upon which la- Dor leaders declare they will materi- ally add to the chances of Democratic success in November, and assist in re- taining the Democratic administrat- ion.
 w. D. Jackson, deputy president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men of the United States and Canada, returned Saturday from visit of for ty days in the North and Easi in the interest of organized labor. He at tended the Democratic National Con vention in St. Louis as the personal representative of w. G. Lee. president of the Brotherhood
 MT. Jackson is enthusiastic over the prospects of Democratic victory. He will be active in the national cam | paign in behalf of the candidate who has consistently been the friend of l organized labor, and says that the 136,OO men whom he represents will swing into line almost to man. MT. Jackson, formerly an employe of the Iron Mountain in Argenta, and now high in the national councils of the Brotherhood, calls attention to the fact that the Arkansas Legislature is the first to enact full-crew law. Soon afterward Woodrow Wilson. then governor of New Jersey, in al special message to the Legislature of that state, urged the passage of a bill ansas statute In keeping with the habit which legislative bodies have acquired when dealing the New Jer- sey schOol-master, the bill became a law, and was signed by Gov Wilson.
 The New York Assembly passed the same act, and it was promptly vetoed by Gov. Hughes, who is now the Re- publican nominee for the preidency
 When that fact is known" said MT. Jackson. Judge Hughes will not get the support of the organized railroad vote of the country. It is already pretty well-knOwn, but it is to be our purpose to see that everybody knows it. We shall support and work for the election of the man who has at all times been the consistent friend of labor.
 There are many other things in the record of President Wilson that will make the laboring man friendly to him. Just to mention one of them Trouble was threatened in the Pana- ma Zone over the employment of aliens on the railroad. A delegation of whom had the honor of being one, waited upon President Wilson. ana laid before him :hrI facts and pointed out the dangers. He listened most at tentively, and assured Us that the in formation he had given us was most valuable. In a very short time, the alien laborers were displaced by Am ericans. He is decisive and firm, just and impartial, and that is why we like him and propose to see that he is re, elected"
 MT. Jackson appeared before the Committee on Platform of the Nation al Convention in St. Louis, in cpposi- tion to the, workmen's compensation act which was advocated by Presi- dent Samuel Gompers of the Fedora tion of Labor and able economists from Yale, Harvard and others Mr Gompers and his associates advocat- ed general act to apply 60 laborers in all industries. MT Jackson op- posed thel application of the principle to railroad employees, contendng that it would deprive them of the right of trial by jury. which is considered more desirable than the proposed law. He declared that the order ha repre- sents and no objection to it's appli- cation to forms of industry other than the railroads. Many of the delegat- ions had been instructed in favor of workmen's compensation plank The Arkansas delegation was among them, having voted in caucus to instruct It's member of the Platform Committee, Jerry South, to support a plank de- manding such a law But MT. Jack sons arguments prevailed over those of Mir GOmpers and his associates. to the extent that the platform contains no plank favoring workmen's com pensation, except as applied to federal