There is ample time for their consider
ation. As regards most if not all of
the matters, bills have been intro
duced into one or the other of the two
houses, and it is not too much to hope
that action will be taken one way or
the other on these bills at the present
session. In my message at the open
ing of the present session, and, in
deed, in various messages to previous
congresses, 1 have repeatedly sug
gested action on most of these meas
ures.
Child labor should be prohibited
throughout the nation. At least a
model child-labor bill should be passed
for the District of Columbia. It is
unfortunate that In the one place sole
ly dependent upon tiongress
In addition to a liability law pro
tecting the employes of common car
riers, the government should show its
good faith by enacting a further law
giving compensation to its own em
ployes for injury or death incurred in
its service. It is a reproach to us as
a nation that in both federal and state
legislation we have afforded less pro
lection to public and private employes
than any other industrial country of
the world.
Injunction Legislation.
