Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-25
WILSON AND LABOR VS. HUGHES AND
 BIG BUSINESS
That's the Way It Looms to Deputy President of B.
 of R. T.
(By Clio Harper.)

Little Rock, June 24.-"Woodrow Wilson is the friend of labor"
 Charles Evans Hughes is not friend of labor"
 This is the ground upon which labor leaders declare they will materially add to the chances of Democratic sue , cess in November, and assist in re- tainng the Democratic ad1ninistra- ton. ss w D. Jackson, deputy president p1 the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of the United States and Canada, re- turned Saturday from visit of 40 days in the North and East in the in- terest 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 campaign in behalf of the candidate who has consistently been the friend of or ganized labor, and says that the 136,- 900 men whom he represents will swing into line almost to man. l MT. Jackson, formerly an employe VI Cilc HUH N1OuHIAIH III A1ECuCd, tILu 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 a special message to the legislature of that state, urged the passage of bill that was verbatim copy of the Ar kansas statute. In keeping with the habit which legislative bodies have &C., quired when dealing the New Jersey schoolmaster, the bill became law, and was signed by Governor Wilson.
 The New York assembly passed the same act, and it was promptly vetoed by Governor Hughes, who is now the Republican nominee for the presi- dency.
 "When that fact is known" said Mr. Jackson, Judge Hughes will not get the support of the organized ratl- road vote of the country It is already pretty we'll 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 Panama zone over the employment of aliens on the railroad. A delegation, of whom I had the honor of being one. waited upon President Wilson, and laid be- fore him the facts, and. pointed out the dangers. He listened most atten- | %.,,o1x, ocSuroA %hot l., formation we had given was most alien laborers were displaced by Americans. He is decisive and firm, just and impartial, and that is why we like him and propose to see that he is reelected"
 MT. Jackson appeared before the committee on platform of the national convention in St. Louis, in opposition to the workmen's compensation act which was advocated by President Samuel Gompers of the Federation of Labor, and able economists from Yale, Harvard and others. MT. Gompers and his associates advocated gen. dustries. MT. Jackson opposed the the application of the principle to rail- road employees, contending 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 he represents had no objection to it's application to forms of industry other than the rail- roads. Many of the delegations had been instructed in favor of work mems compensation plank. The Ar kansas delegation was among them, having voted in caucus to instruct it's member of the platform committee, Jerry South, to support plank de- manding such a law. But Mir. Jack sons arguments prevailed over those of MT. Gompers and his associates, to the extent that the platform con- tains no plank favoring workmen's g compensation, except as applied to federal employees.
 It is still an open question, how ever, and member of the Arkansas delegation declared subsequently, that it is as certain to come as nationa! woman's suffrage and national pro- hibition, which are as certain as the dawning of tomorrow's sun. Between the two extremes must lie a golden mean, which, when discovered, will solve the problem to the satisfaction of both the employer and the em- ployed. In the meantime, other indus tries are making fight for adequate workmen's compensation acts, while the railroad men contend that they will fare better if their claims are re- ferred to the judgment of juries.