Show A TAFT DECISION ON WHICH VH CH LABOR DEPENDS Tho The moro moio labor studies the iho treatment treat treat- tret- tret ment moot which labor has received at tho Urn hands of If William H II I. Taft Tl both on and andoff andoff off oc the bench the more evident it I bo- bo comes to every even minded fair worl worker cr et that Judge Taft line has not nOl only been just and Impartial In dealing with wih tho the Interests in interests interests In- In of or workingmen but that his decisions followed as ns precedents by other courts have havo been heen of ot inestimable v value luou to labor laborin laborn In upholding ln tim the right or railway workers to leave leavo their employment cm- cm where thoy they eo co fit f Irrespective tive tivo of or the tho consent of the tho employer erI er It I Is Js well Known that oven In England I where labor possesses more rights 1 than In nn an any other othet country countr of or Europe a different rule prevails pre an and the crew of ut a train quitting without giving several da days days' 8 notice can cun be prosecuted criminally Some Sonic American railways sought Bought to maintain a similar rule but but Judge Taft in the tho Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad case held that the ho re relation re- re lation laton of oC the tho to railway companies Is IR one of or free contract and Is not analogous to tu that of or seamen In tho maritime service who to a a certain cur cur- tam tain extent surrender h er their liberty in their employment and amid are arc punishable hoble for desertion Tho rime employment Jun therefore there there- fore Core in tho the case of ot i rai all way service was terminable b by either part party The court could not compel tho the enforcement enforce enforce- ment of personal services as against t a either tho the employer or the employed against the will of ot either It I was this decision which prompted the head of ot ono one of the railway labor organizations a n few days das ao ago to write to Mr Mr- Taft Taft that at ot St. St St Louis in a 0 sub sequent quent railway controversy the rail rail- wa wa way employee s h had found you ou raJ- raJ had laid lai down there the tl rn upon upon up up- on which we could depend for tor the pro pro- of our rights rIght Labor can tway always depend upon Mr Taft for the protection of its Is rl rights both b because causo ho he is In sympathy with hl labor and because It Is his nature wih to do o right by ly every citizen and amid to see as af far tar as In his power lies les that ant no one Is Is' wronged The election electon of Mr 11 Taft Tatt to o the Presidency will J 1 In iii Itself be bo a Magna Magno Charts Charta upon which every American can depend for tor equla equitable l Just and generous treatment J f j |