The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-04
AFTER JOHN sEAToN.
Resolution Condemning Him in State
Labor Society.

The state labor society is after Capt
| John Seaton with a sharp Stick-at least
some of the delegates are. A resolution
| was introduced just as the convention
| was adjourning at noon by John Nc
! Cormack, a PittSburg railroad man,
| condemning Captain Seaton. The reso-
| luton was very brief and contained no
| specifications why Seaton should be
| condemned except his general attitude
towards the State Society of Labor.
Mccormack represents the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, and the
principal reason for the Introduction of
his resolution grows out of Seaton's
opposition to the long train bill in the
last legislature. The resolution in full
is as follows:
Resolved, That the conduct and at
titude Of Hon. John Seaton towards
this society and towards working men
be condemned by this society,"
That is all there is to it. Under the
rules it was referred to the committee
on resolutions.
A large number of resolutions were
introduced. and all of them were re-
ferred to the committee for action. The
free employment agency law, as passed
by the last legislature, is condemned
in one of the proposed resolutions, pre-
pared by Robert Tompkins, of Atchi-
son. After calling attention to the fact
that the first annual convention of the
labor society recommended law pro-
viding for a state employment agency
under the direction of the state bureau
of labor, and that the legislature of
1901 passed the law making the bureau
independent of the labor bureau, the
resolution continues:
Resolved That the legislature at it's
next session be and is hereby respect
fully requested to so amend the act ere
ating the employment agency as to
place the employment agency under the
control and direction of the state labor
bureau, for the reason that the labor
bureau is in constant touch and COM
munication with over four hundred
Kansas trades and organiza tions, cover
ing railroading, mining. building, man
ufacturing, and every other branch of
industry, including farm and common
labor; and is also in frequent corre-
spondence with all the principal rail-
way managers, mine operators, mill
owners, manufacturers and employers
of the state.
Resolved, That provision should be
made to secure the active cooperation
of all police officers, Christian and char
liable societies of the state to the end
that a searching communication with all
parts of the state be maintained, and
an employment agency be built up so
all-pervading that it will irresistibly
attract employers and employees.
Resolved, That the state employ
n1ent agent, however appointed, should
not only be an energetic. level-headed
workingman, but he should be progress
sive enough to be a union man in good
standing
w H Thomas, of Caldwell represent
ing the Order of Railway Conductors,
introduced a resolution favoring the
passage of an alien labor law.
G. A Nitzsche. of Leavenworth, a del
egate from the Retail Clerks Interna-
tional Protective association, introduced
a resolution demanding the continuance
of Chinese exclusion, and asking the
Kansas congressman to vote for it.
F. E. Shull, of Fort Scott, representing
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
introduced a resolution asking that a
train of 25 loaded cars or 40 empty cars
be declared a trainload for one conduc-
tor and two brakemen, and that one
brakeman be added to the crew for each
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