The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-11
LABOR LEGISLATION.
Important Wcrk by Labor Federation
and Strikers.

Important Wcrk by Labor Federation
and Strikers.
The legislature will be asked during the
coming week to pass an anti-company
store and anti-company boarding house
bill, and to radically modify the arbitra-
lion law now on the statute books Of the.
state. This is the outcome of TWO meet
ings held yesterday between the commit
tee of the striking ScCfield miners and the
committee on legislation of the 1 tan
Federation Of Labor. Two meetings We're
held by these committees, one. IN the
morning and one last evening. and at each
meeting much hard work was done.
The HOlZheimer measure, house Dill
No. s.. was first taken up. In its present
form this bill provides thar every per
son, corporation, agent, manager OF em-
plCver who. bE threat. intimidation or an
dua influence. COmpels its employees to
board at q particular boarding house or
10 trade at particular store shall be
guilty of q. misdemeanOr.
tt was decided by the committees in
their joint session yesterday TO add an
other section to this measure. providing
ia effect that all employees shall be paid
in full i'm cash or bank checks at least
once III every thirty days Tor any ser
vices rendered, and also at the time Of
leaving the employ Of the company, and
any contract made between employer and
employee. contrary TO the statute shall
be deemed void and of no effect
Board of Arbitration.
More important stnI than the above are
the conclusions reached 10y these repre-
sentatiVes of labor on the question of ar
bitratiOn- IL was decided To ask for the
modification of the present law TO the
effect that there shall be a board of
labor, Cancellation and arbitration, to con-
siSt of five members. Two of these are
to be appointed by labor and two by
capital to represent the parties III DIS
pute- These tour shall choose the NTH
man. The drbitratOTs are TO be appointed
as or before the time of the trouble cali
ing for arbitration. If the four represent
nHalr1F HrH n 90
upon the FIFTH man. he shall be chosen by
the governor This one man shall be a
permanent appOintee. The time and place
of the meeting of cne board snail be fixed
by the board itself Each side 10 the dis
puUe snail pay the expenses of its mem
bers of the board of arbiJra ton and the
Larties shah share alike the expenses of
the NTH man. All provisions of the old
- law not in conflict with the above are TO
stand.
A subcommittee was appointed to put
these bills in proper form for preseuIa-
tiOH to the legislature. When thfS is done
these men viii go before the appropriate
committee OF the legislature and urge
their enactment into laws No time will
be wasted in getting at this work.
The representative of the strikers re-
ceived no Information Yesterday from The
scene of the strike. The president of the
executive commlLJee or the strikers, J. q.
Ben and most of the members Of that
committee are suilI at Helper. and 81 was
expected that some move would be
agreed upon by these men II n meeting
yesterday. The nature Of the move 10 be
made would not be discussed by Messrs.
Rooney and George. These two agreed
with the fedora ton committee yesterday
that a subscription list should be pre-
pared with the names o. the president OF
the federation and the president Of the
Building Trades Council AT the head ami
circulated generally I'm this community.
The proceeds Will be forwarded 20 TIE
executive committee Of the striking min
erS and viii be distributed by that com
mittee among the most needy people I'm
the utHereut camps,