French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-05

tn public ana the
Ddblic interests in the ~presoTVatloh "
human life.
Ant. for Mr.. Hughes effort to bring
this great human lie preserving issue
to the low level of a matter OF wages
lin an appeal to the capitaIist1c pocket
lis an insult to every Intelligent labor
ing man in this nation and an Insult 70
the intelligence &C the American pep
pie.
The law is not perfect. The Broth
erhood knows this, but they have made
a long step in the right direction and
every man that reads knows 1t and no
man should Know it better than an ex-
! Justice of the Supreme court OF the
United States.
The Supreme court of the U. s. can
determine whether a man can draw
wages for two hours that he does not
labor. That is the only question the
court could consistently consider in
this eight-hour law.
If the Supreme court decides a man
cannot draw pay for two hours he does
OF work and the Railroad Brotherhood
will MOI accept that decision, the next
session Of Congress will pass a law
that will compel him to accept it,
and it will pass a law to carry out to
the letter the purpose of the humanity
of the act.
Twenty-four hours is a calendar
day and three men instead of one or
even two should be on the pay roll
where men serve on whom depends
the preservation of human life and the
same pay per hour they now receive
for ten hours would create nc need of
higher freight or passenger rates and
Mr.. Hughes appeal and the real cap
.ital that is driving rapid transit labor
would get far better results, the pub
lie for better services and human life
much better protected.
So if the Republican party and Mr..
Hughes can make capital out of so hu-
name an action as Nj. Wilson and the
Brotherhood and Congress have
brought about to save this country
from worse than war, they are lost and
hopelessly lost for an issue thai Will
appeal 70 the intelligence of the Amer
lean people.
And for a man that has held the po-
sition of Mr.. Hughes has and been hon
ored by the nomination of a great party
for the Presidency to make the state
ment that this eight-hour law VIII III
timately lead to Civil war is so far be-
meath the dignity of the character of
intelligence that should fill the Presi-
dent al chair that it is appalling to
consider.
The Republican party is~dyinG hard.
1t is dying because it neglected oppor-
t~unities that human misfortune placed
its command and the advantage it
took of that opportunity led it to be-
ridden with monopoly and money
power.
And if every element of labor in
America from the man with the shovel
in the ditch, to the highest salaried !
secretary in the nation, does not stand
or the Railroad Brotherhood, and Pres |
ident Wilson in this great unmeasura-
Bile human up-iift act in its value to
the human race, they are not worthy |
of American citizenship.
This is my reply to my friends OF the |
Ra lway Brotherhood and to my
friends as to whether 1 will or they
should vote for the young rising Dem
ocrat, Zebulon Weaver for Congress.
Day and night or these past years
I ave been giving my time at the
rate of eighteen out of twenty-four
hours to re-establish>a line of industry
mat OAS0 CAp4Oy6Q over d thousand !
laboring men involving more than two
md one-half million of invested capt.
tai turned idle IN the 10th district by
legislation and has re-
NAMED idle for the lack of a business
in Congress from the 10th,
until it has nearly bankrupted the
and nearly wrecked his credit
md that of a number of his friends,
WIN with him mt fhos- 1900
INTO some of the rich resources of the
10TH so we are going to believe that
zeb Weaver will endeavor to post him
'elf and try to measure up to the re-
Iu1rements as near as she can of the
1eeus of the Industrial interests of the
10th district.
Respectfully,
S. A. JONES,
WayneSVnle. N. C.. Sent 3O 1915