Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 302, 6 November 1916 — Page 10

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One-third of all laws. beneficial to labor, passed in New York State in 133 years, were passed during Governor Hughes' term at his request and signed by hini.

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(From Cleveland Leader, October 28, 1916)

TRADES COUNCIL BALKS AT WILSON Seead Attest to Force Later to Indorse His Re- ' election Fails.

(From The Philadelphia Public Ledges, 0cber 23, 1916)

MOYE TO INDORSE WILSON QUASHED BY LABOR UNION Central Body, in Stormy Session, Tables Resolution Indefinitely IMMGNATION GREETS

(From The Washington Post, October 22, 1916)

CHICAGO IABOE FOB HUGHES. Bonding Trades Council Say PreaK dent WIIaoB Lnck Sympathy. Spwrle) Tk WaafetDftaa Trni. Cblcaco. Oct it. Om braaoR of ort9Ui labor winx tnt line for Charles S. Hughe tonlgb then the Chlcego Bull dine Trade Council, of which Simon CDonnell h president, adopted reaotDtlona urgng the defeat of President Wileon betauke of lack of eympathy with the American workmen." Arthur D Burbank. chairman of the lecUlattv board of railroad train men in nilnoia. I weed a eta torrent declaring that railroad emplojreo are turning from reatdnt Wilton nt ft the Ortt time our national offlrorw have aftaanpttd to tell ua how w mnat vote, aad there are thousand like myeelf who will not stand for etch dictation." ald Mr Burbank "X are oon vlnead that the eentltnent am one the railroad men for Hughe la growing Mronger every day"

This Is Labor's Answer to the Attempt To Deliver the American Worltingman's Vote THE labor vote cannot be delivered to the Democratic party. The bulk of it throughout the country will go to Hughes was the positive declaration of Thomas J. Williams, one of the most prominent trade unionists in the United States, in course an interview in Pittsburg on November 1, 1916.

Mr. Williams is National President of the Building Trades department of the American Federation of Labor, which includes every craft in any way identified with the building industry. It has a membership of nearly one and a half million men, all mechanics, which is more than fifty per cent, of the entire membership of the organization off which Samuel Gompers is the head. Mr. Williams has just completed a tour of the south and middle west, in course of which he talked with representatives of every industry and addressed seven national conventions of labor organizations. "No man or group of men can deliver the labor vote to the Democratic party," said Mr. Williams. "Th American workingman always has supported the Republican ticket, and for a very practical reason. "He knows that the Republican party stands for the great principle of protection to American industry, and that without such protection there can be no prosperity for him. The wage

earners of this country today consider the reestablishment of the protective tariff system the one great issue before them, and they will vote accordingly next Tuesday. "No sensible laboring man is deceived by the present abnormal industrial activity in the United States. We all know that war orders from Europe are responsible for it. "If the foreign conflict should end tomorrow, the wage earners of this country would be confronted with precisely similar conditions to those which confronted them during the first two years of the Wilson administration idle mills, dead locomotives, men out of employment, and business depression everywhere. "The workingman will vote next Tuesray for the Republican ticket because he will then vote for his own material welfare "In my trip through the south and west, I discussed the political situation with hundreds of laborfng men. I found no indication anywhere of a pronounced trend of sentiment in the ranks of the wage-earners toward the Democratic party."

The Republican Protective Tariff protects workingmen's wages without increasing the cost of living. The question is shall we have a Democratic tariff that only pretends to help the wage-earner or a Rpublican tariff that really protects him?

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LABOR LEADERS INDORSE

fvesoltrticns Adopted at Meeting "of the Buafmg. TrfcteCoimc;! of Philadelphia

Declaring that freridnt Wdaoa bat hfmeetf aa eaemr of otxauaed Ubor and that, on the contrary. Mr. Hugket has shown bttnoelf th friend of labor throua boat ha whole career, a tanas of reaototiooa snpportMg the candidacy of Mr 'Hughes was psed tot night at a meeting of the Philadelphia BwUing Trade Council, representing all about 60,000 men. The meeting we held in the Parkway Building, and the reaolutxma wert passed titer a apented da ctnoon. Frank J Schneider, preaided A standing vote was takes The reao lutton declared that until ha entrance into potitie ax year ago Pitsideut Wilton had proved hansSf a "bars, bitter and unjust cnta" of labor vatena. and bad shown by his speech oj and ha writings, in his books, that. he had ao sympathy with the labor movement n statement was attnbatrd to hm that "Labor nmona dragged the highest men to the level of the toweat," and be was quoted at bang a "fierce parti a a of the open shop " The passage was cited from Preadent

LWilsoo book, "The Hatonr of the

American People, whera he asserted that the Chinese labor was preferable to the Polish. Slavonic or Itabaa On the other hand, it was declared that Mr Hughes had been shown by ha words, his deed and ha record, that he had been a friend of labor and of labor talon during his entire career. , Mr Hughes' utterance, that he regarded labor unions as & fine opportunity for the improvement of the condiuon of the workingman," was quoted, snd hit statement, the interests of labor are the interests of all people, and the protection of the wage earr-er m the security ot life and health by every practical means, is one of the moat sacred trusts of aociety " "We vigorously condemn,' read the resouluon. "the action of labor lesders in endeavoring to create opposition to Mr Hughes, and with the belief in romd that ail labor unions should be kept free from political parties, we urge all our members. s wcR as those cf other . unions and locals, to cast their votes as their interest best demands."

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