South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-31

fCONIlNDkD fttOAl fAGE O-NF<J
Cleveland second administration in adjusting
claims for work done by government employees
under the Harrison administration. and required
i'm violation of the eight law that had
been given the men by the Cleveland first adj
nlinistration.
The only thing the republican party estab-
Iished was lawsuits for overtime. The only
eight-hour law il ever passed was PASSED on To
a democratic administration to settle for lack
OF government enforcement. Cleveland paid
the men for their overtime and installed the
time clocks that have since put stop TO over
time demands. Mail carriers. postofice clerks,
all government employees, in the service back
in tho-o days, will TESTIFY To these facts. and
the books back il IN i'm addition. ASK your
mail carrier about it."---if he j. of that long
standing. TWO carriers in the local service are.
And Hughes, 100 per cent Judge" and 100
per cent candidate cannot escape the rcspon-
sibility either. for it il lac who is quoted "a
furnishing the information.
lie had just shattered. 80 the editorial
runs. "the democratic prctensc OF having es-
tabIished an ciSht-hour day by the Atkinson
hill aud then ne reminded labor that the
republican party actually did establish are
eight hour day in 1892, for all employees in
government service"
II i a practical confession of a total loss of
the labor vote, else why go To such prevari-
eating lengths i'm an effort to recover it, IL
evidences a realization on the part of the re-
publican leaders, that the Adamson law has re-
spondcd to a popular public demand. especially
on the part OF worl,ingmen, and that though the
Adamson act must be discredited because the
work OF democrats, the republicans need To
show Up an equivalent somewhere TO defeat it.
Rut they can't do it, Il doesn't exist
cmanatng from the republican party any
where in its history. II is just another bit of
Hughes police court shystry--thc work of a
400 per cent pettifogger."
The republican party has never regarded il
self a under any obligations to labor, save To
feed IL protective tariff sop before election. and
Lowell. Calumet and Ludlow gunpowder after
election.
It's practical slogan has always been. take
what Your employers give YOU, and be con-
tent" The republicans did have hand i'm the
passage Of the railroad safety appliance law,
and the federal worLmen's compensation act,
but it, measures were passed. TO protect the
employers against damage suits. and quite to
the employers liking, rather than out of con-
sidcration for the workingman.
woodrow Wilson. and the democratic con-
gross. have done more for the workingmen in
the last thrcc years. than all the republican
presidents and congresses since Abraham Lin
coin.
These fear items alone prove IT,
The Clayton amendments To the sherman
antitrust law. denying that labor is longer
a commodity 10 bc bartcred away mt a profit.
The child labor Iaw-anOrding the child n
chance for a start i'm life, and relieving adult
labor OF the competition of child labor.
The seamen's act, removing the slavery of
-niIor.. requiring that they DC of intelli-
Kencc. employed ut decent wage, and afford
inc them some rights which water transpOrta-
ton companies .,rc bound TO respect.
The Adamson cight-hour law, recognizing
the eight principle for all railroad train
men employed in interstate commerce.
Everyone of the above propositions have
been before republican congresses and rcpub-
Iican CONGRESSES have turned them dOwn-aud
il was only a. an emergency measure, TO pre-
vent a strike that republicans. now carping
critics of ia, permitted the Adamson bill TO be
passed BY the democrats
They could have stopped it il they dared.
and would have had they dared, but they
didn't dare.