| OCR Text |
Show SENATOR BORAH AT OBPHEUM TONIGHT ; Idaho Statesmen Has Special Message to Organized Labor in Ogden. Facts about the labor situation in the United States will be related by the Honorable William E. Borah. United States senator from Idaho, in an address before a mass meeting of Republicans in tho Orpheum theater tonight. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock. It will be of particular interest inter-est because the object of the address will be to define Mr. Hughes' position posi-tion on the labor question. Possessing a comprehensive knowledge knowl-edge on labor conditions in the United States, Senator Borah will draw from that fund the conclusions that will convince members of organized labor, who with representatives of organizations organ-izations affiliated with union organizations organiza-tions have been urgently requested to attend, that Mr. Hughes not only is a friend of labor, but has a record, which places the enactment of more good labor laws to his credit than any governor New York ever had. The senator's address will not be in the nature of an attack on President Presi-dent Wilson, but he will by fact and figure show that the chief executive Is not sincere in his belated espousal of the labor cause as demonstrated In the enforced enactment by congress of the Adamson eight-hour law. Mr. Hughes believes in an eight-hour day because It is productive of the maximum maxi-mum efficiency. Senator Borah will go further with his discussion of the labor Issue to include reference to the recent stir in labor circles caused by tho re-1 fusal of the Chicago Building Trades council to allow Samuel Gompers, head of the American federation, to drag the members of that executive organization into the Wilson ranks for election purposes only. This council, in a resolution adopted in Chicago Saturday night, condemned the action of the president for his apparent lack of sympathy with organized or-ganized labor as shown in the fact that he ignored organized labor in tho employment of mechanics for work in the Isthmian canal zone. The resolution resolu-tion points out that a great per cent of the canal zone employes were not members of organized labor. This is only one of many instances of proof of lack of sympathy. Senator Sena-tor Borah will explain this statement to the satisfaction of every laboring man or person whose sympathies rest with organized labor, in his address tonight. Also he will show why the laboring man should cast his vote for Mr. Hughes. It is to your interest and to vour friend's interest to hear him. |
