25 Mar 1908
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
1
The president urges Congress to pass a model child labor bill for the District of Columbia and to enact a comprehensive employers liability law. He calls for swift injunction reforms in labor disputes and for extending compensation to government employees for injuries or death in service. Washington March 25.
The speaker urges amendments to the interstate commerce and antitrust laws to allow railroad traffic agreements with ICC approval, enable federal receiverships with stockholder input, and recognize labor and farmer combinations as legal if not restraining commerce. He proposes a filing and review system, limited damages, registration for nonprofit groups, and a one year statute of limitations for past suits.
The discussion considers whether a separate judge should decide contempt in injunction cases to boost public confidence, except when contempt occurs in court or in urgent situations.
A discussion on conciliation replacing strikes, the legal status of strikes, and the need to protect workers and employers. It argues that unions are legal and necessary, endorsing peaceful collective action while condemning violence and coercion during labor disputes. The text emphasizes legal recognition of unions, employer collaborations, and fair treatment for all workers.
President Roosevelt urges urgent tariff revision with targeted wood pulp duty and a six to nine month push for data collection to aid next Congress. He backs a permanent waterways commission, conservation focus, and early water power measures with revenue and fee provisions. Also notes Chicago Board of Trade quotes for wheat, cattle, and hogs.
The passage supports employees combining to contract with employers and to peacefully persuade others to adopt their views and to strike peacefully to obtain factory terms. It rejects any legalization of a blacklist or boycott that would be legal at common law as condemned by the anthracite strike commission.
Opening Chicago markets show mixed grains with bids on corn oats and Wheat by sample listed. Hogs cattle and sheep receipts forecast up to 25 000 today with strong demand and higher prices across hogs and cattle. Furnished by Beach Wickham Grain Co Chicago.
Peoria March 25 A W White juror in the Jacob P Nau versus Standard Oil company case repudiates the vote for $8,000 damages prompting a new trial. Nau sought $25,000 in damages.
A brief note from John A. Babcock of Chicago invites timely contact and promises a square deal in a concise, public message.
In New York City a Black Hand extortion plot triggered a run on Pasquale Pati Bank on Elizabeth Street and on F Aoritelli & Son across the street. Pati, who had shot and killed Pelletro and been acquitted, fled the city after posting a dramatic two week suspension notice claiming life threats and the need to leave town.
In Paris on March 25 the government refused the Duke of Montebello permission to move Marshal Lannes from the Pantheon to Montmartre. The cabinet postponed M Zola’s Pantheon transfer from April 2 to June 4 to finish arrangements amid anti Zola protests.
The body of William B. McLean aged twenty two a Princeton University graduate and former Protestant church and athletic figure was found on the Pennsylvania tracks in Philadelphia March 23 after being struck by an express train.
Russian wrestler George Hackenschmidt, known as Gotch, failed to throw Gus Schoenlein of Baltimore in fifteen minutes at a Baltimore arena. Colonel Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, arrived in Havana. Cuban sugar crop this year is projected to be 550000 tons below 1907 due to the Avoneht.
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