Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-19
A PROTEST OF LABOR.
Work of the Late Legislature Not
Altogether Satisfactory.
BOYER MADE AN ESPECIAL MARX.
Successful Experiments With the Fuel Gas
at Youngstown.
)YER MADE AN ESPECIAL MARX.
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HARRISBURG, August 1S.-The shabby
treatment accorded labor legislation at the
recent session is causing the Republican
leaders much concern because of its probable
detrimental effect on the election for State
Treasurer, and a scheme is on foot to have q
report prepared by the Knights of Labor
committee appointed to push labor move
ments before the Legislature to show that
the political majority of that body should
not be held responsible for the failure OF
legislation in the interest of the working
men.
Quay and other Republican leaders are
said to have had a conference recently in
which it was determined TO exert every
possible influence to have such report
framed, and in the event of success to have
it widely distributed in the mining and in
dustrial regions Of the State. The commit
Tee which is to do this work consists OF
Charles Andrews, brother of Chairman
Andrews, of the Republican State COMMITTEES,
William Lewis, of this city, who was
recently appointed postal clerk, and Hugh
McGaryey, a Greenbacker, who last year
made speeches for Congressman Brumm in
the Schuylkill district
A STUMBLING BLOCK. g.
The movement was expected to be easy Of
execution, but McGarvey is not as tractable
as its oripinators believed he would be. He
is said to have expressed decided opposi-
tion to signing a report which the history of
legislation fatty contrsdicts.
He has lively recollection that the semi
monthly pay bill, the employees liability
and the store order acts, the doekage and
other legislation which had the Endorsement
of the Knights OF Labor State Convention,
which met in this city about the time of the
converting of the Legislature, were slaugh-
tered, and up to this time all efforts to CON-
troll him in the interest of the defensive
campaign document are said to have proved
futile.
The feeling against the Republican party
in the anthracite coal regions, which the in
dicated legislation was intended to particu-
larly affect, is SO pronounced because of the
blackeye given the several bills chat the
Republican managers are expected to re-
new their efforts to convert McGarvey to
their way of thinking. They have encoun-
tered a serious stumbling block in the dis
covery of the omission in the concurrent
resolution of the provision invested in the
House empowering the Secretary of Inter
nal Affairs to appoint q representative of
the labor interests of Pennsylvania on the
commission to frame an equitable revenue
law.
DELAMATER'S RESOLUTION.
This is the resolution which was intro
duced toward the close of the session by
Senator Delamater as a sop to the grangers
in return for the defeat of their bill to lessen
local taxation by imposing increased taxes
on corporations. Information comes from
anEauthentic source in the anthracite coal
regions that the miners intend to show the
majority party by voting against
Boyer for State Treasurer that it can
not afford to deny them the protection
demanded. As Boyer was Speaker of one
branch of the Legislature which either de-
feated legislation in their interest or mutt
lated It SO as to render it useless, they think
that no more opportune time could be Sc
lected than now to rebuke the Republican
party for the course of its legislative rela-
tioe to labor bills.
Leading Democrats have endeavored to
persuade the indignant miners to reserve
their political thunder until next year,
when Governor, member of Congress and
members of the Legislature are to be elected,
but they nave answered that they propose
to strike while the iron is hot.