Show Viol IJ A AM ANI WHAT TUB TILE IU REPUBLICAN X PARTY J HAS S DONE E FOR orr rr IT Ir From Irom Tafts Taft's Speech of or Acceptance We t como omo olno now not to tho the question of or labor One important phase of the tho policies of the present administration administration ad ad- ministration has been an anxiety to secure forthe for tor tho the rage wago earner an equality of opportunity and auch lUch posit positive o I statutory protection as shall hall place him on a level in fn dealing with will his leis employer Tho The Republican party palt has haa passed 1 an employers employers' liability lia lla- act for interstate railroads and has esta established established an hour eight law Jaw for o government s and on government s construction The essence of tho reform effected b by tho the former formal is 18 tho abolition of or tho the servant fellow-servant rule and the introduction of tho comparative negligence theory b by which an I Injured in the tho service of oC his employer dues does not loso logo all his lira right because of or slight negligence gence banco on his part Then rhen there thero is tho the act providing pro pro- providing viding for compensation for Injury to government employee together with tho the various statutes re requiring ro- ro quiring safety no appliances upon Interstate com com- merco railroads for fOl tho the protection of their and limiting tho hours of their employment Those Thero are arc all instances of tho ho desire of or tho the Republican party parl to do o Justice to tho the wago wage earner carner Doubtless a n. more comprehensive measure lure for or compensation of oC government will bo ho adopted In the tho future the principle in such mch cases casas has ha J been een recognized and In the necessarily somewhat slow show courso course of ot legislation will be more fully embodied in definite statutes The Tho interests of tho the employer and tho the never differ except when it Jt comes conics to jt 4 division of tho the joint profit of or labor and capital into dividends divi J lends anti and wages This must be a constant source of periodical dircus lon he between tween the employer and as indeed are aro tho other terms of tho the em em- To 0 give to their thell proper position In such a a. controversy to enable them therm to maintain themselves against t employers having ha great reat capital they mH may well unite h because in union there is it strength and without It each individual laborer and would be he helpless s Tho The promotion of or In In- In through tho the Instrumentality of the trade trudo agreement is often one of the results of such union when Intelligently conducted Thero Is a largo lalo body ot of however skilled and unskilled who arc ato not Hot organized into union unions Their rights before the law are tiro exactly tho the saute aM at of or tho union men and are aro to be lc protected with the saute came care and und watchfulness |