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enactment of an income tax in conform
ity with the recent United States con-
stitutional amendment.
On July 10, 19l4-An additional ap-
preparation Of $4,000 for the work Of
the children's bureau.
On July l6, l9l4-More adequate ap.
propriations for the department. OF Ia
Dor to carry on its work.
On June Is, l9l4-Prevented . reduc-
tion in wages and installation and COL
lection of rents for employees on the
Panama canal zone.
Sixty-fourth Congress.
On May 4, l9l6-The president ap.
proved the amendment to the hours of
service act 1.-THE sixteen hour law for
railroad men), containing minimum
and maximum penalty for violation of
same by railroad companies.
On May 10, l9l6-The president ap-
proved the legislative appropriations bill
after the Objectionable Borland amend
ment, which was for the purpose Of
lengthening the workday of government
employees without extra compensation
and without arranging for overtime rates
had been stricken from the bill.
On July l, l9l6-The president ap-
proved the sundry civil appropriation
bill which carries with it the anti-Taylor
system proviso.
On July 6, l9l8-President Wilson ap-
proved the Notifications bill which car
ries with it the important provision
which prohibits the use of the inhuman
Taylor system in government workshops
On July II, l9l6-An act to provide
capital for agricultural development, to
create standard forms of investment
60 vfrxur tn
bonds, to create government depositaries
and financial agents for the United
States bonds, to create government de-
positaries and financial agents for the
United States, and for other purposes.
On July 2s, l9l6-The postoffice ap.
preparation bill was approved. This bill
contains provisions improving the condi-
tions of letter carriers, clerks and other
post office employees.
There are several other important Ia
Dor measures upon the calendars OF both
houses, which, if passed, it is confidently
expected he will also approve.
On July 4, 1916, on the occasion OF
the dedication of the American Federa-
tion of Labor office building in Wash
ington, D. c., President Wilson deliv-
cred an INSPIRING address from which l
quote in part, as follows:
NO man ought to suffer injustice in
America. No man ought in America to
fail to see the deep dictates of human
ity.
"Mr. Gompers was referring just now
to the sixth section of the Clayton anti
trust law, the section in which the OBJ
vious is stated, namely, that mans
labor is not a commodity, but part Of
his life, and that, therefore, the courts
must not treat it as il it were n com
h,,k
part OF his life. 1 am sorry that
there were any judges in the United
States who had to be told that 1t is
so obvious that it seems to me that that
section of the Claytorn act were n re-
turn to the primer of human liberty; but
If Judges have to have the primer opened
before them, ] am willing to open it,
Students of history may search wide
and deep, they may spend many years
of keen research and nowhere in the
pages of American history will they find
a clearer and more definite pronounce
ment in behalf Of real, human liberty
than the above expression by President
Woodrow Wilson on July 4, 1916.
JUSTICE HUGHES RECORD.
You also ask for the record of the
Honorable Charles Evans Hughes. Re-
publican nominee for president, as to
labor measures, and particularly as to
the Danbury Hatters' case.
The Danbury Hatters' case has an his
torical place in labor's struggle for free
dom. It was in the course of the trial
of this case that the workers of our
country finally succeeded in securing n
declaration from the highest court of the
land as to the application of antitrust
legislation to associations of wage earn
ers.
The decision of the court in this case
involved principle of fundamental i'm
portance to workers. It was the same
principle involved in the abuse of the
writ of injunction which, under the per-
version by judges, who had no under
standing of industrial conditions and the
labor of human beings, had been trans
formed into an agency at the service Of
employers who wished to restrict the
industrial freedom of their employees and
to prevent their using legitimate meth
ods of securing their demands and pro-
noting their welfare.
The theory upon which courts have
held that antitrust legislation applied
to associations of wage earners and that
injunctions could be used to regulate in
dustrial relations, which are personal re-
lations, was the assumption that the Ia
bor of a human being was an article or
commodity and, therefore, property.
This assumption recognizes no distinc-
tion between the creative labor power
Of human being which is insepanble
from his living body and the articles
which he produces.
In 1908 the supreme court Of the Unit
ed States rendered decision in the Hat
ters' case when the initial appeal was
made.
In 1914 the United States Supreme
Court delivered their final decision In
the case and sustained the contentious
Of the 1awyers Of the Anti Boycott as-