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Show JOHNSON ON EASTCOAST California Governor Touring Massachusetts For Human Welfare Worcester, Mass., Sept. 24. Before a crowd thU filled Mechanicn' hall, Governor Hiram Johnson today delivered de-livered the first speech of his eastern east-ern tour. His address dealt principally princi-pally with the social and industrial planks of the new party platform. Governor Johnson was given a hearty reception on reaching this city from Springfield. After a brief review of the Chicago Chi-cago convention and sovero criticism of President Taft, the governor turned turn-ed to the humanitarian program set forth by tho platform. "Ours Is a fight for man," he declared. de-clared. "It is an old fight, it Is true, but one In which this countrv may properly be called laggard of all nations. na-tions. Some of us have been fighting Individually for years for the principles princi-ples enunciated In this Progressive platform and now we come to you as a party Inviting all, regardless of par ty lines, to join us in a battle that can result only in victory. "We demand first of all " he said, "tho absolute prohibition of child labor, la-bor, because to allow In this great boasted free country of ours the employment em-ployment of child labor Is n crime. Too long we have allowed hundreds of thousands of children to be employed em-ployed for tho greed and avarice of man. "Wo also stand for the minimum wage for women. It ought to be plain to every man aJid every woman that a nation which will permit Us women to slavo for meagre wages and maintain main-tain an appearanco on the wage, is committing tho greatest possible crime against Its future citizenship." He related his own experience with the eight-hour law for women in California. Cali-fornia. No Industry, he asserted, had 1 suffered financially from the effects I of tho legislation and hundreds of ! women had written their thanks to him for signing the bill I co |