Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-09-15
Address by Chas. w. Maier
Special Representative
Fremen and Engine

should never have been enacted, and
it should be repealed" That IS all
he said on that point. He vent no
further in explaining the Adamson
Law. / said to myself, Tomorrow
the News will have an editorial on
what Beverage has had to say; and
sure enough, it did. Amongst other
things, il said, albert Beyendge was
right, the Adamson Law should never
have been enacted and should and
must be repealed" ! had my mind
made up then that Mr.. Beverage was
seeking reelection to the Senate Of
the United States from Indiana. So
nearly everywhere | went | had some
thing TO say about it. On the 10Th
day Of February last, | was in Gin
ton, Missouri, and happened to be
talking TO the editor of a paper there
and mentioned Beveridge's speech.
This editor said to me, Mr.. Maler,
| had Beyeridge's speech in my office
two days before il vas delivered in
New York City, and as far as ! know
every paper in the United States had
Beverages speech But | thought
too much Of the railroad men to pub
lish it. 1t found its way into my
waste paper basket
While over in Indiana | ran across
a January 18th issue Of the Indian
apolis Star and | saw in it where
Mr.. Beveridge had delivered an adj
dress at Anderson, Indiana, on the
18th Of January, and discussing the
Adamson Law he said, 1T should
never have been enacted; it must be
repealed And he said further that
if he is again elected to the United
States Senate he will see that it is
repealed, and that had he been in the
United States Senate at the time the
measure came up for enactment he
would have blocked 1t. | want to say
this to all of you who live in Indiana;
| want to say to all of you who know
what the Adamson S-hour law means,
who know that forty years ago we
did not have a fixed number of work
ing hours on any system of railroad
in this country want to say TO all
of you who know of the continual
fight we have had to have a limit put
on the number of consecutive hours
of duty for train service employees
that ] hope and trust that when the
polls close in Indiana in The election
in November next Mr.. Beyeridge will
find himself elected to stay at home,
and he surely will be elected to stay
at home if the workers in that state
do their duty. (Applause.)
| trust the workers in Indiana will
pay their poll tax and register and
be prepared to vote this fall, and L
trust that every worker i'll every state
in which the possession of a poll tax
receipt is essential to the casting of
his vote will pay his poll tax, get his
receipt, march fearlessly to the polls
and perform that great duty he owes
himself and his loved ones and in adj
dition to this he should, where neces-
sary, pay his wife's and daughters
poll tax so they also can cast their
votes in behalf of economic justice
and industrial freedom. Yes, if needs
be, pay the poll tax for the mother,
the wife, the sister and the daughter,
so none of their votes will be lost to
Labor's cause.
In those states in which it is not
necessary to pay poll tax as requi-
site to voting, the workers and their
women folks should go to the regis
tration booth and register so that
they will be entitled to vote and then
be at the polls ON election day and
vote, yes vote in numbers so great
that they will overwhelm with defeat
those candidates who, if elected, will
do the bidding of Labor's oppressors.
If the workers and their women folks
will stand together as one solid body
of men and women merged as it were
int oil sthn n
into their own or nearly so in 1922.
They will become greater than they
have ever been in the worlds history.
(Applause,)
Continued Next Week.)