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TTIE MORNING OREGONTAX, TtfESDAT, NOVEMBER 7. . 1D1G. LABOR LEADERS ASK VOTES FOR HUGHES Sincerity of Attitude Toward Reforms Shown by Their. Early Utterances. RECORDS ARE REVIEWED Substantial legislation Obtained by Republican Xomlnee When Gov ernor What Wilson Really Thinks of Unions. CHICAGO. Nov. 6. (Special.) Prom inent labor leaders of the United States today Issued an appeal to their fellow workers In all states to- Vote for Charles E. Hughes for President at Tuesday's election. Signers of the plea. Issued from the headquarters of the Republican Na tional Committee, are: James L. Oeron, chairman general execu tive board Pattern Makera' League of North America; Daniol S. Jacobs, Cigar Makers' l.'nlon Local No. 13, New York City; Matt t'omoiford. (former general president Inter national Unitm of Steam and Operating En gineers; John GiU, Bricklayers, Masons and J'lasterers' International Union of America, Local Nor 37, New York City. John Wil liams, former general president United brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local No. 1S3, L'tlca, N. Y. : W. V. Kramer, secretary and treasurer Interna tional Order of Blacksmiths: John A Metz, president Carpenters District Council, Chi cago: Mahlon M. Garland, former, president Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; H. L. Fldler, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Pennsylvania Lines "West, Indianapolis; Frank A. Fetrldge, sixth vice-president Wood, -Wire and Metal Lath rrs International Union; W. O. Jones, Local .'. lis. United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Vtlea, N. Y., former president. New York Ftate Federation of Labor; M. G. Wooley, Order Railway Telegraphers, New York Cen tral Lines; John B. Strachan, United Asso ciation of New Plumbers and Steam Fitters' Local No. 105. also president New York State Plumbers' Association; Harry Engle, Inter national Iron Moulders' Union, Local No. 3 20. vice-president New York State Federa tion of Labor: Robert A. Barber, member executive board of . Amalgamated Street Hallway Employes of North America, Local J-'o 241; J. J. O'Connor, international presi dent International Railway Clerks' Associa tion, and Thomas J. Dolan, former general secretary and treasurer of International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Kredge men. Wilson's Attitude Dissected. The labor record of Hughes when Governor of New York, the need of a protective tariff, the bitter attitude of Woodrow Wilson toward union labor prior to his election to the Presidency and the friendly attitude of Hughes, the recent opposition of President Gom pers and the American Federation of Labor to legislative regulation of wages and hours, and the Adamson law are the chief subjects discussed in the document, which is as follows: "We earnestly urge every organized worker to cast his vote irf the coming election for Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee for President. Be cause of his demand for systematic and reasoned reform and his strict adher ence to principle, our welfare would be safer in his hands. We may realize Just how much the former Governor of New York ought to accomplish for our benefit while in executive office when It is remembered that during his nearly four years at Albany he "Asked for a commission to Inquire into questions relating to employers' liability and compensation for work men's injuries the first step In that direction in America. "Reorganized and extended the pow ers of the labor department. Children's Hours Restricted. "Restricted the hours of labor ot children. "Promoted the health and safety of employes in mercantile establishments. "Appointed a commission to investi gate the condition, welfare and indus trial opportunities of aliens In the state. "Compelled the railroads to pay their men sem'-monthly, instead of monthly. "Signed a law defining more clearly the application of the eight-hour larw to certain kinds of work. "Prevented abuees of ersons out of work by employment agencies. "Sought to bring about a six-day working week. "Based Improvements In conditions tipon full and fair Inquiry Into the facts before action. "Nor was he less sympathetic Witt our aims while a justice of the Su preme Court of the United States. Tne batters" case had already been decided In its essentials two years before his appointment. The opinion In which he took part was merely upon the techni cal point of whether the Jury trial and assessments against the union had been made In proper form questions f legal evidence and bookkeeping, which had nothing to do with the rfgh or wrong of ,the contention that the hatters were' subject to the Sherman anti-trust law. Arbitration Insisted On. "He "has opposed the Adamson wage law. recently placed oni the statute books by the present. Democratic Ad ministration, because ' enacted without the thorough investigation which he has so consistently stood for and be cause of the relinquishment of the principle of arbitration which we can not give up. That law does not limit the work of a day to eight hours. It provides that the standard of compen sation shall be eight hours instead, of ten hours. It therefore merely In creases xne pay or tne men 20 per cent. Less than one-half of 1 per cent of the entire population benefits - about 400.000 In the brotherhoods. The J.400.000 who work in the shops and f reighthouses and on the tracks re ceive no advantage. Without looking Into the Justice or necessity of the ad vance In wages at this time, which might have been ascertained by arbi tration, the law was. enacted at the expense of the clerks, small business meji. farmers and the. entire remainder of the people. To refuse investigation and arbitration opens the way for such refusal In the future on the part of capital, which Is better organized than labor. Government should be the means of providing for the mainte nance of the Just rights of all in the community. In this case it was used by the few to secure advantage In compensation from the many some thing quite different from an eight-1 hour law. Federation's Attitude Similar. "The attitude of Mr. Hughes toward the Adamson law Is consistent with that of . the American ' Federation of I-atror itself. In the convention at Philadelphia In 1914 the following- res olution was adopted: The American Federation of Labor, an in the past, again declares that the question of the regulation of wages and hours of la bor should be undertaken through trade union activity and not be made subjects of law through legislative enactment. "Nor Is th view of Mr- Hughes In consistent with tnat of President Gom pers. Speaking before the committee on industrial relations of the con Ftitutional convention of New York on May 26. 1915. Mr. Gompers thus ex pressed himself: T should say that X should not favor a proposition which would pu,t power Into the hands of the Legislature to regulate the minimum, wag for ma la private employ ment or'for-th regulation of tfc hours of labor of men -in private employment. Let m? sa this: that reading history as I have, 1 am chary of placing in the power of any governmental agency power to regulate the conditions of employment'of the workers of our country. ... - ' "The best evidence of the fair and Just attitude of Charles ,E. Hughes to ward labor is the followinlg comment of the Legislative News, the recognized organ of labor on legislative. matters in New York State, in "October, 1910, when he was not a candidate for office: Now that Governor Hughes has retired from politics and ascended to a place on the highest Judicial tribunal in the world, the fact can be acknowledged without hurting anybody's political corns that he was the greatest friend of labor that ever occupied a Governor's ihair at Albany. During hia two terms he has signed 06 labor laws. In cluding among, them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any other state. He also urged the enactment of labor laws in his annual message to the Legislature, even going so far as to pia.ee tTie demand for a labor law in o&6 of his messages to an extra Besslon of the- Legislature. Only 16t labor laws have been enacted in this state siuce its erection In 1777 1S5 yeart. One. third of these, exceeding In quality all others, have been enacted and signed during - Governor Hughes' - term of 1 three years and nine months. . -i- '. Labor Views In Contrast. "Of organized labor Governor Hughes, in 1908,- at the -dedication of the Tuberculosis Pavilion built by the Central federation of Labor at Al bany,' said: ' r My friends' there are some who regard organized- labor, as a, source of strife and menace of difficulty. 1 regard it as a fine opportunity for the amelioration of the con dition of men working with no other pur pose than to make the most of themselves and to achieve something for their families. . .. Under wise leadership, with statesman like guidance, with a sincere Intention- to promote the benefit of the country and to secure honorable progress, the mission of labor organizations is one of the finest that any association of men could guard . -There la a great movement In this country from one end to the other, a movement for progress that is not sensational, that is not for the benefit of this or that particular man, selfishly considered, that is not con trolled by any set of men, but is for the improvement and progress of humanity, be cause all our., decent citizenship is deter mined that every abuse that can be cor rected shall be corrected and that every man shall have a fair chance in this country. "Contrast these words with those of Woodrow Wilson. In a letter written January 12, 1909, he said: I am a fierce partisan of the open shop.' In 1905 he stated that 'labor unions drag the highest man to the level of the low est.' In 1907 he declared that 'there Is another equally formidable enemy to equality and betterment of opportunity, and that Is the class formed by the labor organizations." Again. In 1909. he asserted that 'the usual standard of the employe In our day Is to give as little as he may for his wages' and that 'labor Is standardized by the trade unions.' Protective Tariff Essential. "In addition to our support of Mr. Hughes because of his labor necord, we believe It Is essential to our well being and prosperity that the protect ive tariff be restored by the Repub lican party, which has fathered that policy, and that we have at the head of the Government an executive who will bring this about In such a way as to cover the difference in the cost of labor here and abroad and maintain our more comfortable standard of liv ing, and yet who has the courage to see that it be dope without abuses. We point to a falling off in revenue of $238,354,644 and an Increase in Imports of $640,464,787 unden the Underwood law. In spite of 23 months of war up to July 1,. as sufficient evidence of the ravages caused In our National finances and industrial system by the abandonment of protection. The coun try Is drifting In a false paradise. "The conflict In Europe has resulted In enormous demands for our food, mu nitions and other products, erecting an unnatural tariff wall to give even further proof of the principle. But the war may end at any time, and then the fictitious good times we now enjoy will disappear. Efficacy Has Been Proved. "Thirty millions of men. trained In methods and accustomed to the . sim plest modes of life, will return to their vocations and Immediately there will face this -country the necssity for competition with cheaper goods made by cheaper labor. If we remain unpro tected by aught except the Underwood law, based upon the theory of tariff for revenue only, we shall suffer. We are dependent upon the prosperity of the Industries from which we receive our wages. If we are protected by ari adequate tariff, we shall not need to worry, for we shall know that Its duties will sustain our incomes. "Let us not forget the sufferings we underwent during the Cleveland Administration and the prosperity that ensued under McKinley. Let us vote for the principle of government which has 'proved its efficacy In protecting our homes and families, and for that natural prosperity under which . the building trades and all organized labor have always greatly benefited.. "JAMES L. GERON, "DANIEL S. JACOBS. ' "MATT COMERFORD, "JOHN GILL. . - ' "JOHN WILLIAMS. "V. F. KRAMER, "JOHN , A, METZ, "MAHLON. M. GARLAND, "H. L. FIDLER. "FRANK A. FETRIDGE, , "W. O. JONES, "M. G. WOOLEY, "JOHN S.. STRACHAN, "HARRY 'ENGLE. "ROBERT A. BARBER, "J. J. O'CONNOR, "THOMAS J. DOLAN." IS SEARCH FOR REV. T. Y. RAGSDALE, OF TEN-MILE, IS BEGUN. Police of Sacramento, "Where Pastor Formerly Resided, Are Notified to Detain Him If Found. ' ROSEBURG. Nov. 6. (Special.) The failure of Rev. T. Y. Ragsdale, of Ten-Mile,-to keep his appointments to preach at Looking Glass and Brock way. Sunday, was responsible for a search, being started here today by the officers. It- was finally discovered by Marshall Wilitama that the minister had driven a. horse and buggy to this city Saturday afternoon and had later boarded a train for Sacramento. Rela tives of the man in this vicinity can assign no reason for his sudden de parture. Rev. Mr. Ragsdale left his home Sat urday after .informing relatives that he was going to Looking Glass and Brockway to keep his appointments. When he failed to make his appear ance yesterday an investigation was begun and the officers were notified. He had no relatives at Sacramento" as far as the officers have been able t ascertain. Rev. Mr. Ragsdale is about 45 1 years of age and has a wife at Ten Mile. He had lived in Douglas county for a long time and la well known -to the ministers of Western Oregon. ' The Sacramento officers have been notified to detain him on his arrival there. Hood River Gets 0 Curs for Apples. HOOD 'RIVER, Or., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Receipt of nine refrigerator cars here today temporarily relieved the congestion of the storage plants of the Apple Growers' Association and the closing of the plants has been avoided for the time being. The stor age plants will have to refuse deliv eries some time this week. Read Tha Oresoulag classified als. BOTH CANDIDATES WILL VOTE EARLY Hughes Goes to Theater, Wil son Plays Golf on Day Be fore Election. RETURNS ARRANGED FOR Republican Xominee Confident, but Makes No Comment Mr. Tumulty Predicts Landslide, With 38 7 ' 'Votes for President. NEW YORK, Nov. 6. Confident that he will be elected President tomorrow, Charles E. Hughes went to a theater tonight and retired early after a quiet day, most of which was spent resting. The Republican nominee will be up early tomorrow . morning to cast his ballot at a polling place situated in a laundry not far from the hotel where. he has established a legal residence since he was nominated. Mr. Hughes made no comment tonight on the pros pects of victory tomorrow. He takes the position that his campaign ended Saturday night and will have nothing more to say until the result Is known. Mr. Hughes will receive the returns at his hotel tomorrow night by tele phone from the headquarters of the Republican National Committee. With him will be members of his family. He has given instructions that be is to be supplied only with significant fig ures, and not with fragmentary re turns. .Hughes Visits Headquarters. The' nominee visited Republican headquarters this afternoon and shook hands with all the workers there. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hughes. Lat er they went for an automobile ride. LONG BRANCH, N. X. Nov. . After going over with President Wilson op timistic messages from all parts of the country. Secretary Tumulty tonight claimed the President would win to morrow's election and would have 387 votes in the Electoral College. He did not give a list of the states on which he based his prediction. The President spent the day quietly at Shadow Lawn, going out for a short time for a game of golf and receiving a delegation for a few minutes in the afternoon. To those who saw him he expressed complete satisfaction over the prospects of tomorrow's voting. The President will be up soon after daybreak tomorrow morning to go to Princeton to vote. He will make the trip by automobile, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, and expects to be' back at Shadow Lawn In time for luncheon. -In the afternoon he will play golf. In Princeton he will cast his ballot In an old fire engine-house and may spend a few minutes visiting old friends. Elaborate Arrangements Made. The President will receive the Im portant returns by telepnone from Sec retary Tumulty, who will remain In the"" executive offices in Asbury Park, where elaborate arrangements have been made for receiving election news as speedily as possible. Only Mrs. Wil son and other members of his immedi ate family will be with the President. Messages from Democratic leaders In virtually every state were received by the President today and .tonight pre dicting victory for him tomorrow. John J. Scully, secretary of the American Association of Masters, Mates and Pi lots, telegraphed that his organization had passed resolutions expressing con fidence in the President's Administra tion and indorsing his re-election. A summary of the message received at the executive offices, given out here tonight, said that "many of con servative Judgment unqualifiedly pre dict -a landslide and greater optimism prevails at Shadow Lawn than at any period of the campaign." DAVIS MONEY BEGGING IDAHO REPUBLICAN BACKERS SEND WAGERS TO BOISE. Bankers, Sheepmen and Others Put . Up Cash, Which Is Not Covered by Alexander Supporters, BOISE; - Idaho, Nov. 6. (Special.) After failure to find takers in their home haunts, men scattered through out the state today telegraphed bets to Boise to be' placed on D. W. Davis, the Republican candidate for Governor. The llth-hour rush to the capital bet ting commissioners was wild enough to create surprise even in the G. O. P. camp. Election eve reports also indi cate to the Republicans a larger ma jority for their Presidential candidate. Fred Gooding, brother of an ex-Governor of Idaho and a wealthy retired sheep man living at Shoshone, sought Alexander money to the extent of $1000. John Thomas, a banker of Gooding? sent $1500. An order came from Twin Falls to cover all Alex- Have You Bad a Ride INTHE NEW SERIES f' II "WTt r TT Y t T nr t- " 11 W illJL Hourly Demonstrations Phone Main'4542 , Frank CRiggs Company 60 Cornell St. A. oo . " aii - Muod Of wasnineion Tl KING EPICURUS IS COMING! f Vl" i uu ander money In sight up to $10,000. Word was received from Montpeller that $1000 was waiting to be placed on Davis. . The big surprise, however, came when Wallace brokers sent $1500 to do oet against 120Q on Davis. JSho shone Is the strongest Democratic county and Republican - leaders as sumed that the Wallace men would not have to go outside their corporate con fines to have their betting appetite appeased. More than $5000 of Davis money re mained in Boise before the rush of outside commissions. There has been little support of Governor Alexander in the local betting ring. MAN DIES BY OWN HAND Age and Infirmity Believed to Have Influenced J. M.! Peach. Age and Infirmity caused James M. Peach, who lived with his son. Fred O. ..Peach, at 2606 East Fifty-eighth street to take his own life earlv yea terday morning, according to the belief of relatives and the evidence found by Deputy Coroner Smith. The body was found at 8-4K vKtr. day morning In a small structure at the rear or the dwelling, used by Mr. Peach as a bedchamber. He had lain down fully dressed, and by his "side on a chair stood an open phial of strvchnine. air. Peach, Sr., came to this city two years ago to make his home with his son. He was 71 years of age, and was tor many years engaged in the hard " 1 " uniiicRa i ii .i iuii uan. inn nmiv was taken to the morgue by Deputy uiuucr iuiuui lor examination, SUNDAY SHOWS STAY SHUT Application to Restrain . Eugene From Interfering Is Denied. EUGENE, Or, Nov. 6. Special.) Eugene will have no Sunday theater performances. If a decision of Judge J. S. Coke, of the Circuit Court, handed down today Is to obtain. He denied an application bv the Prmrrps1VA Amna ment Company for an injunction to re strain the city authorities from Inter fering with the operation of Its theater on ounaay. . The plaintiff attack th rtv m-ai nance, contending It was In conflict wini iura s uregon uvi, which ex cepted theaters from Sunday closing. Judge-Coke takes the view that Inas much as the theaters were excepted under the state law there Is no state law applying to Sunday theaters. M'MINNVILLE CASTS VOTE George "W. Evans Is Mayor; Compch . s'ation o Officials Authorized. M'MINNVILLE. Or., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Today George W. Evans was elected Mayor; Arthur Chandler. Re corder; Leo Peters, Chief of Police; Genn F Bell. J. Gordon Baker and A. L. Ballard, Councilmen from the three wards. A proposed amendment to the char ter carried, authorizing the Council to prescribe compensation for officers and members of the fire department. A bond issue was voted by about 3 to 1. authorizing the Water Commission to expend the sum of $90,000 in the betterment of the gravity water sys tem by bringing the water of Hasklns creek to supplement the present supply. STUDENTS STUDY BALLOT Vancouver High School Will Hold Election of Its Own Today. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 8 cial.) Students of the Vancouver High School will hold an election on their own account tomorrow, and they will vote tor President, state offices -and for county officials. The rolls will be used as the registration books, and sample ballets will be used for voting." By doing this, the students will be learning how to vote when thev be come legal voters. The results of the election will be posted in the school and later will be printed in the High Lecture by C. B. Shaw Scheduled. The seventh of Clement Burbank Shaw's voice lectures will be given this evening at the Central Library. The sub ject win De "The Principles of Artistic Respiration." The lecture is under the auspices of the Schumann Society and is open to the. puhiie. 'HE Hostess is IjSi appraised by the Biscuits she serves to her friends. Thousands and thou sands of particular women relv on Swastikas The Purest of All Pure Foods. These wonderful dainties are as convenient as they are crisp and delicious. Swastika Biscuits have won their place in the sun of popular approval precisely because they are made of the purest and best ingredients, in big sunlit plants, by Master Bakers who are sat isfied with nothing short of perfection. 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Meyerhoffer, while flying 1000 feet over the Santa Fe station, where the funeral cortege ended, dropped the wreath, but a gust of wind brought It up against the motor of his machine, short-circuiting it and causing the en gine to go dead. The aviator by skill ful volplaning succeeded in effecting a landing on the bay. Military funeral services for Bocquel, who was killed while' giving an exhi bition at the exposition here Saturday, were held today. The body was escort ed through the streets by soldiers, and was sent this afternoon to his late homo in San Francisco. Man. With Girls Arrested. On a charge of contributing to the known and sometimes iiiiiiiiiiim give to their wearers the con sciousness of being well-dressed as important as the impression created in the minds of others. "The Morley" for young men "J combines the essentials of an every day business suit with the smart features and graceful lines of a dis tinctive style. Three-button coat, with patch pockets, semi-form-fit-, ting body and natural waist line J THE STEIN -BLOCH COMPANY Wholesale Tailors Rochester, N. Y. l!l!!i!l'',l!ll!lil'IH''ll'1lll!'l'IHiH! Sold Exclusively by SELLING delinquency of a minor. Harry McKaney was arrested last night by Deputy Sheriff Ueorge liurlburt. McKaney is said to have lured two girls, aged 16 and 17 years, from the Louise Home Sunday and to have taken them to his shack In the, vicinity of Lents. They are said to have been living there since that time. The girls were taken bark to the home Inst niirht.. Patriots - Menace Readers BEWARE. Deceived by scheming politicians, "The Menace" praised Cap' Perry's so-called "Patriots" Ticket. For PERSONAL reasons Perry and Bob Duncan want you to vote for ex-Saloonkeeper Jackson and Mr. "Oppor tunist" Lafferty. Mr. "Opportunist" Lafferty has openly denounced "The Patriots," but, on his being defeated at recent primaries, became an eleventh-hour "Patriot" of the Jackson, Duncan and Perry brand. PATRIOTS MENACE READERS VOTE THIS TICKET VOTE NO OTHER We Trust These Candidates: 47 nnrhtrl, Fred G. 7S I.aurEaard. O. 49 Allen, ti. W. T .rvri. I. f. 51 Tucker. Robert. so Mackey. Lionel C. RS ;ran. Frnk S. 81 Mann. John M. 64 Karrell, Rohert S. S4 tvlllett. t.eorge T. RS Huston. 8. B. US WlllUon. II. A. 5 Moaer, 4. us C. on Mnllett. Mary I R7 Olson. Conrmd P. JOS T.iwrll, (.rorgr. SH Orton. A. W. Ill luck. A. A. S illl. John. J .t Ilurlbnrt. Thomas M. 70 I'atton, It. M. lis lleverlder. Jon. w. 721 Lampman, Rex. 1IB Lewis, John M. 73 allan. A. C. 124 Hall. J. O. 74 C'orbett. Hamilton K. 12 Doaarr, R. C. 75 tioode. E. J. 121 Hammasch. K. JT. 7 iordon, Herbert. 131 l'eteraon, Mark W. 77 Kubll, K. K.. Authorized by the Council of (Paid Advertisement.) To the This la the last day of the election campaign, and I have tried to conduct a fair and square campaign, both to myself and my opponent, free from any mud Hllnpinp; or abuse, and noth Inar of the kind has cone from my office either by myself or anyone In my knowledge. - I hare heard many things about my opponent during this campaign. but I retrained from using: any dcr. Much anonymous and Flan derous matter has been circulat ed about me through the malls and otherwise. There have also been false reports and stories cir culated about me In an attempt to besmirch my name and character. This I consider very unmanly and very much out of place in the seeking of an office. If I am elected Sheriff of Mult nomah County today I -will dis charge the duties of my office to the best of my ability, and I will plve everyone a square deal, and be courteous to all. "I play no favorites." Respectfully yours. Portland, Or.. November 6th. 1316. 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