Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1908 — TAFT'S SERVICE TO LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TAFT'S SERVICE TO LABOR.

BMtnrti the 010 Bwallah law Aa■umptihn that Uwlew Labor la a Cowaplrhay. (From the Emporia (Kan.)- Gazette. The simple fact is that no man has done more to place onion labor on a sound, square, law-abiding, respected footing than William H. Taft by hit decisions in labor cases. Both employers and employed have acknowledged the, justice of his decisions and learned to abide by them, and to-day there is ; not an Intelligent worker or fair- j minded employer who would aeek to j abrogate them. Judge Taft lifted onion labor from ’ the doubt and uncertainty as to its rights which had before prevented and i gave It a standing which it has ever since retained, and which has proved under his rulings, secure against all attack. The old assumption, derived from England, that union labor is u conspiracy, and that workers could be prevented from leaving railway or other employment at their will, was i swept away forever by Judge Taft so ! far aa the United States is concerned, i and when an attempt was made, years later, to revive the principle. Judge Taft’s decision was quoted successfully by the labor side to defeat the plea.

Mr. Taft waa and ia labors' friend, because he is absolutely just, and would no more permit wrong to be done to the poorest laborer in the land than he would to any 'one else. And the honest, law-abiding workers asks and expects no more than this.