Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-02
railroad WORKERS
TO SUPPORT HUGHES
They Remember 6. 0. P.
Candidate Was Friend
of LaboS Before
Campaign
WILL FULFILL ALL
POLITICAL PROMISES

Big -Four railroad brotherhoods to de-
liver the votes Of all railroad workers
to Wilson.
Governor Hughes has labor rec
ord, too. and Il Is winning the sup
port Of wage-earnefs on the railroads.
even the railway tralnmen, despite
the frantic attempt Of the presumptive
beneficiaries OF the Adamson act to
hold them in line for the President
The National Hughes Alliance to-
day pointed to food OF enrollments
from railroad men as poof Of the
declaration that railroad men are
rallying TO the support OF Governor
Hughes.
Among batch of signed enrolment
cards received were those Of five en-
ployes Of the Erie Railroad OF a rail-
road conductor Of the Boston and AL
bany living at Pittsfield. Mass. Of a
pennsylvania Railroad brakeman at
Philadelphia, and of fireman Of the
Jersey Central at Bayonne also who by
the way recorded the fact that he voted
for Wilson i'm 1912.
brakeman Of the Jersey Central
signed from Bayonne; from Jersey
NfAA9 Nont luN N0uDUuN Vi dll dTSlSldli
foreman on a section gang on the
Pennsylvania Railroad; a Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad clerk at Railway S gned,
and freight clerk of the B. & o. sent
a card from Elizabeth.
a claim clerk of the Lackawanna
Railroad signed: an Erie man enrolled
from Paterson; craftsman who
voted for Wilson last time enrolled
fTnn1 ri n afa ~
the Jersey Central at Barnegat signed
This batch of cards happened to be
largely from New Jersey, but the rec
ords OF the Alliance show that the
movement toward Hughes among rail
road men shown by these cards is
just as true OF other States.
NEW YORK-Tn a statement made
public here yesterday. Miles NJ. Daw-
son, a member OF the Advisory Coun-
eli OF the American Association for
Hughes and shows how President
Wilson tricked the railroad brother
hoods in the matter OF the Adamson
so-called eight-hOur law.
Mr. Dawson is well qualified to
speak on the subject, for he was Of
counsel for the brotherboods at
w dculhSLtu uGiAA6 AhN d6ALdAAbn AneAN
preceded the enactment of the Adam
son law, and was present at the
hearings before the Senate Commit
tee on Interstate Commerce when the
bill was under consideration. Mr.
Dawson has long been associated
with the brotherhoods. and was a
witness for them in several arbitra-
tons
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Hughes Is answering devotion to
duty" says Mr.. Dawson. THAT eS-
plains his character and his career.
il explains, for instance. why he is
so slow TO accept new responsible
ties. He expects to fulfill them
AT Albany, while he was governor,
was the omen door He received in
the big room before all who gathered
there. all Corners upon public business.
friend or foe. rich or poor, powerful
or friendless, and he listened and OBJ
served
There were no private conferences,
no visitors upon public business eX-
cept i'm public The back stairs both
literal and fgurative. disappeared. He
welcomed open criticism OF proposed
legislation; the sharper the better.
Thus mistakes could be remedied, or
If too late for that the faulty bill
could be vetoed Thus legislation was
brought to such perfection that little
of it failed of its full purpose.
Devotion to duty also explains the
things which Hughes did for work
ing men-more legislation for their
real benefit than this State had ever
seen, every line of II thoroughly
wrought out after deliberation and sub
mission to criticism.
Charles Z. Hughes was my fellow
member in the Social Reform Club OF
this city twenty years ago-a club
which supported labor's cause con.
sistently and out of which the move
ment for wcrkmen's compensation in
this country was organized
when Woodrow Wilson was a pro-
lessor he grossly insulted organized
labor as of late be insults classes of
citizens whom he thinks he can with
impunity, and possibly with political
advantage
$50 also, regarding the eight hour
controversy. The railway brother
hoods demanded an eight hour day
with time and half for overtime and
they refused to arbitrate because no
offer was ever made to arbitrate this
plain issue and because a long list
of counter claims regarding things
long ago settled by agreements. com.
promises and arbitratiOns was set up.
HAD a proposal been made by the
railroad managers FOR eight hours at
ten hours pay, leaving out the time
and a half for overtime, the brother
hoods would have rejected it and
struck rather than stood for il. The
brotherhood leaders instantly accept
ed the proposal when made by the
President, though they would have re
jected it had It been made by. the
managers Had they not. of course
the railway managers would have &C
cepted. They could have done so with,
out it costing anything. Then the
brotherhoods would have been so uni
versally condemned as to make a
strike hopeless The brotherhOods
have as yet nothing but the prospect
of increased wages FOR the real. eight
hour day they must again give battle
Every item Of Wilson's legislative
program intended TO De put through in
the short session is one which the
brOtherhoods expect 10 fight
when did Hughes hold back labor
legislation to the very last days of his
terms of office, as the child labor bill
the workmen's compensation. the fed
eral employees bill and others have
been held by this administration and
then passed under pressure of political
necessity?
Hughes answering devotion ia