Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-10-01 | Page 18 | Mr. Hughes' Labor Record

J Mr Hughes Hughes' Labor Record I TT HEN Charles E. E Hughes Hughea couples his hia denunciation dol dovY do- do WHEN l vY of or the hasty enactment of or ort t tho the Adamson wago law b by some miscalled I an hour eight In law w. w with his hII statement that I he has always sought rought t to pro promote oto tho the best Interests of ot labor nono n need ed n accept his own estimate of or his course There is Js corI cor- cor I elsewhere t When Mr tIr Hughes retired as governor of ot 1 New York to accept tho the appointment of oras- oras as associate as- as Justice on the bench of ot the tho f United States th tho Legislative laU e Labor News I of ot Now New York said of ot him I Now that Governor HU Hughes h s has retired retired retired re- re tired from politics anc and ascended to a a. aI I t place pIneo on tho the highest judicial tribunal In ln Inthe j I the world world the fact tact can be acknowledged acknowledged e edged Ged without hurting hurting- anybody's political political po po- po- po I corns that he was tho the greatest friend of ot labor abor laws that ever o occupied J. J tho governors governor's chaIr at Albany During Dur Dur- II 4 ing jag his two terms he ho has signed 66 la labor la bor laws including among them the th j. j best labor laws ever enacted In this or oran an any other state lIe Ho has also urged the tho r enactment of labor laws in his messages I to the Le Legislature even en going so far fal as asto J I to place his demand for tor a labor law In ln InI I one of his messages to an extra ses- ses 1 slon sion of or the Legislature II Only labor l laws ws have hove been enacted enacted en- en j acted In ln this since 1777 1777 in In jt years third One-third of or these exceeding In quality all aU of Df the tho others have been enacted enacted enacted en en- Ii acted and signed during Governor 41 Hughes' Hughes term of t three years and nine I I months q WIth such a a. record of ot approval nl and suggestion of ot progressive proc legisla- legisla l I tion in tho the Interest of ot humanity to liI his hist 1 t credit it lt is easy to believe belleve that human 1 J rights have a a. steadfast and sympathetic I upholder in th tb the new justice of I the tho supreme court of ot the United States 1 Mr Hughes professes and has proven I friendship for tor labor but ho declines to obey la labors labor's ors or's demands without proof of ot Justice justice Jus jus- jus I tice merely because labor puts a pistol to his head According Jabor labor its Just rights 1 I and paying labor enforced tribute are propositions prop prop- of ot a totally different character Theone The Tho one Mr Hughes las has always aJ cheerfully done il the other h ho declines to o do I A I Announcement that President Wilson i will not reply to Mr Ir Hughes' Hughes charges pertaining pertaining per per- taming to the nd L Instructions because tho the Democratic Democratic- administration opposed Huerta consistently and no reply therefore is necessary sh should bo be interesting when J I compared with the steadfast claim of the thet J administration that it has not intervened in f t Mexico I