The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-09-21


The income tax law which equal
ICES the burdens of the cost of gov
ernment between the working people
and those who have amassed a sur
plus; the rural credits law, which is
God send to the farmers of the
country; the child labor law recent
ly enacted which makes it unlawful
to work children under fourteen
years of age in mines, factories, etc.
instead of keeping them m school
where they may equip themselves for
the larger affairs OF life, and COM
pletely nullifying the seneiment of
the, old song entitled "everybody
works but father" This child labor
law has been clamored for. prayed
for and begged for by labor interests
for years without success until
Woodrow Wilson's administration
was reached
The federal compensation law for
the compensation of government em-
ployees injured while engaged in the
performance of their duties, which in
my opinion is the best law of its
kind ever enacted, and should be, and
no doubt will be, appreciated at its
full worth by all federal employees.
President Woodrow Wilson has
proven his worth to labor by the
things he has stood for in the inter-
est Of the laboring class. His keep
ing our country out of war is one.
thing that should cause Iaboring peo-
pie to flock to his support, even if
ne has done nothing more for them.
1t is the laboring people who have to
face the guns of the enemy in time
of war.
Another act where he has shown
his attitude toward labor. is his stand
for the eight-hour day for the rail-
road employees engaged in train and
engine service, and in fact he advo-
Gates eight-hour day for all class of
employment. Can labor consistently
vote against Mr.. Wilson for Charles
Evans Hughes? l hardly think so,
for it would be voting against a GER
tainty for an uncertainty.
Mr. Hughes has not told labor
where he stands. Why, if he is so
friendly toward labor, hasn't he said
something for labor in the eight-hour
movement of railroad employeess
Not one word has he said and be-
lieve there is just reason why he
has remained silent. for his record
while governor of the State of New
York he vetoed bill passed by the
legislature of New York giving wo-
men the same pay as men as teach
ers in the schools; he vetoed 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 resorts, the
one most attractive, to and within
reach of the poor people, Coney Is
land, and while judge OF the United
States Supreme Court, he concurred
in the decision of that court in which
they held the hatters' union and its
members of Danbury, Mass, liable
for 100000 to d. A. Lowe & Co. for
boycotting, They took the homes
away from those poor people. He
wrote the decision holding the Ari-
zona anti-alien labor law unconsti-
tutional. In these TWO cases Mr..
Hughes has subscribed that he is in
favor of injunction in labor disputes
without the trial by jury. With this
evidence against Mr. Hughes. a per-
son can judge where he stands and
who he would be for if elected presi-
dent of the United States.
am not expressing my opinion as
partisan but from records which
speak for themselves and as the con-
ditions confront labor in Indiana.
Are you going to turn your back on
the party that has befriended you for
the men who when in power did
moth for your can hardly think
so.
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