Show PRESIDENT GIVES MR TAFTS TAfT'S RECORD Shows That Candidate Has Been Warm Friend of Labor Washington Oct 25 ReplyIng 5 Replying toa toa to toa a lett r from rom P. P H H. Grace a member o of the Dr Brotherhood c of t Railway Trainmen Train men mell asking about out Mr Taffs record on l jp 1 lI t J t R Republican candidates candidate's attitude on and I quotes specific cases to tho the point After Atler reviewing his own record of or ortho tho the past eight years year declaring that he had devoted himself especially to labor questions he earnestly advises workingmen and antI farmers to support Mr 11 Taft for tor President for tor their own permanent welfare He lIe says he does not believe the earners wa-e-earners wage earners have oven had hall a better friend In the White Whitehouse Whitehouse house than Mr 11 Taft Tart will to beThe beThe be The abuses of ot injunction have been fearlessly exposed and attacked by Mr Taft Tart he ho s1 says s lie Ho is doing and will do all that can be bo done to do away with these abuses Referring to a specific case he said Mid A year ear or so O ar ago o the editor of the I paper devoted to the Iron union called on mo mc to say that a decree decree de tie- cree had been entered In the United States circuit court at Milwaukee l in unjust unjust unjust un un- un- un 1906 that he regarded as gross grossly just and improper and as practically fatal tatal to trades unionism So sweeping was the injunction that it practically forbade the union making an any effort to maintain their position In the tho trade dl dispute Involved Calls In lu Judge o Taft I 1 called In Mr Taft TaCt and 2nd asked Mr Fry my visitor tor to lay the case casc before him as of course Mr Taft Tart was far more competent than I to express his Judgment as to the legality and und propriety propriety pro pro- of ot the action Mr Ir Taft satisfied himself of or tho the facts and at once be became me exceedingly indignant at such an Injunction having been Issued He stated that in his opinion the tho position taken b by tho the court in issuing the Injunction was clearly untenable He Ho suggested ested in response to Mr Frys Fry's request that the union retain N. N J J. J Judson of ot St St. Louls Louis who had represented the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in tho the Wabash abash case of ot 93 and who b by the tho Va way is the theauthor theauthor theauthor author of ot tho the article reviewing labor decisions of Judge Tuft Taft published in inthe tho the Review Rc of ot Reviews In 1907 lIe He stated that the decision of ot tho the court ought certainly to b be In their fa ta- ta a- a vor The case catie was argued ar before the United States Court of ot Appeals b by Mr 11 Judson and Mr lr Rubin of ot Milwaukee for tor the union and by Mr Ir James M. M Beck counsel for the National Manu Manu- association for tor tho the company com com- pany parmy The decision of ot the court wa was handed down Wn In n Chicago the ot of this month m and It Justifies Tafts Taft's wisdom wis wis- dom for it sustains the most Important Import Import- ant contentions of ot the labor unions tenders Renders Labor Great Service Continuing the President said Inthis In Inthis Inthis this on one instance instance- Mr Taft rendered to labor a great and signal service a practical service service- which shared the pe pe peculiarity pe- pe of ot Mr Tafts Taft's other vices services for tor his services take the form of ot deeds rather than of ot mere words While on the bench Mr Mr Taft aft rendered rendered ren ron dered a service to labor so 80 great that It can hard hardly be overestimated This was In the ease case against the tC C c. C C. S c. c Su St L. L railroad The Tho t Plaintiff while working In Ia the tho employ of company had been ell l S hurt be beS Qui red it to furnish Its Us Ho ID got a n verdict from the Jur Jury Tho The railroad appealed and It its counsel Mr Ju Judson son Harmon argued that tho the verdict should be set aside because tho the had kept at work worle although ho he knew the railroad had violated the tho law and that therefore therefore there there- fore fort ho had really contracted to take all nU the chances chalices of ot b being bing ln hurt hurL This conclusion to my mind a cruelly cruell In In- conclusion had up to that time timo been sustained by most of ot courts Including the New ew York state Court of ot Appeals Nevertheless Judge Taft TaCt refused to follow tollow the New York case crase stating that the ho entire purpose of ot the tho law would be bo defeated If It the was allowed b by an any form torm of contract to exempt tho the railroad compan company com corn pany pan from the tIme consequences of ot Its failure to observe the law rans f Hc Record Ord on C. C Canal C nal President Hoose Roosevelt then referred to Mr lr Tafts Taft's record on the lie Panama canal declaring he took tool the greatest Interest In the workingmen seem that the they were In e every n. n way protected Ho He then contrasted Judge Tafts Taft's attitude attitude at attitude at- at with that of ot W W. J. J Bryan Bran Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- oct candidate for President In tho the following As opposed to the entire vagaries of ot Mr Br Bryans Bryan's ans proposals Mr vagaries Taft Tae stands stand pledged to continue the definite den den- alto nite and constructive e program of ot social so social so- so cial reorganization outlined and al already al- al I ready entered upon by br the present administration A conspicuous instance In Instance In- In stance was the settlement of the tho anthracite an nn- coal strike In April 1907 when a strike was almost certain on the Western Vestern railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads which would have tied up forty forty- four lines hines with half halt a million and put pitt that half of ot the country In a a. state of ot siege negotiations were sent the tho administration who demanded ant arid and secured In the people a 0 settlement last spring the administration administration administration ad ad- b by arbitration and ministration b by Its vigorous action prevented tod a general g reduction of wages on tho the railroads of or the country which would havo have caused great suf- suf reaching fur disturbance farIng and The President concluded by doclar- doclar declaring In ing that if it Mr Ir Taft Is not elected a n. period of oC industrial chaos and business business busi busi- ness floss bad times will ensue In which the will suffer suITer far tur more mor than any ony other class clas |