President Roosevelt, in his message sent to Congress on March 25, deals among other matters with child labor, employers' liability law, modification of the injunction law, amendment to the anti-trust law to permit traffic agreements between railroads, Federal representation on receiverships; changes in the anti-trust law to permit proper and necessary combinations of business men, farmers, or laborers; recognition of the right of employers and employes to combine and contract with one another or with their employes or employers; legalizing of peaceable strikes for the purpose of securing satisfactory wages, but the illegality of violence, disorder, or coercion by the blacklist or boycott; early revision of the traiff, a permanent waterways commission, waterpower rights on navigable rivers.
