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from Message Regarding Labor Legislation (Marc
25, 1908)
by Theodore Roosevelt
Select the correct answer
Which of the following characterizes the structure of the passage as a whole?
O a written request
OB. a descriptive essay
OC a reasoned argument
OD. a personal narrative
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I call your attention to certain measures as to which I think there
should be action by the Congress before the close of the present
session. There is ample time for their consideration. As regards
most if not all of the matters, bills have been introduced 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 opening of the present
session, and, indeed, in various messages to previous Congresses, 1
have repeatedly suggested action on most of these measures.
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 solely dependent
upon Congress for its legislation there should be no law whatever
to protect children by forbidding or regulating their labor
Irenew my recommendation for the immediate reenactment of
an employers' liability law, drawn to conform to the recent decision
of the Supreme Court. Within the limits indicated by the court, the
Law should be made through and comprehensive, and the
protection it affords should embrace every class of employee to
which the power of the Congress can extend
In addition to a liability law protecting the employees of common
carriers, the Government should show its good faith by enacting a
further law giving compensation to its own employees 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
protection to public and private employees than any other
industrial country of the world.
I also urge that action be taken along the line of the
recommendations I have already made concerning injunctions in
labor disputes. No temporary restraining order should be issued by
any court without notice and the petition for a permanent
injunction upon which such temporary restraining order has been
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