The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-27
CONSPIRACY
BILL is FOUGHT
Speaker Before the Committee
Says We Are on Eve of a
Revolution.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. "a. =
Colorado can literally be called Bleed
ing Colorado owing to what has taken
place there in the last ten years." said
J. c. Craig, president Of the Citizens
Alhance OF Denver, Col, in an address
today before the house Judiciary COM
mlttee In opposition to the conspiracy
Dill. He devoted his time to a discus
sion or labor troubles of the state. He
said his association favored giving the
courts the utmost latitude in suppress
ing riots, and giving the courts the
same freedom in passing upon ques-
lions Of antagonism to labor. 1--WE are
not against labor organization, but are
eternally against lawlessness."
John Galloway, of Dayton, Ohio. rep
resenting the non-union employees. told
OF experiences in his city and the strike
there.
1 am machinist," said Mr.. Gallo
way, and an actual worker. and
want to say that all of the workingmen
are not in favor of this anti-injunction
bill" go
|. w. Frank, of Pittsburg, president
OF the National Founders association,
said: -
do not believe our employees are In
IaVor Of this bill. / believe it is a
scheme among the labor leaders here
In misunderstanding desire to be i'm
mune from liability of the law. They
want TO be exempt from the operation
OF the law in their warfare of coercion
the fist, the bludgeon and the gun
Ihey want to be protected in their de-
inands upon employers that union men
De put in and nom union men out"
Says WorIinsmen Have Lobby.
Charles F. Waltz; of Cincinnati, was
heard. He represented the employers
association of that city, comprising
twenty-five trade organizations hayine
q membership of $500, and the National
citizens Industrial association. Mr..
Wa!tz declared holly that the labor or
SanlZauonS were maintaining a lobby
In Washington to further the passage
or the bill, while the employing inter
ests of the whole country were aroused
to defeat the measure. 1t was, he said.
class legislation of the rankest kind.
Mr.. Waltz declared that it was impos-
s1ble TO compel labor to keep the laws
or prevent them from making a hell out
OF q free country. Every strike he
said, was primarily for the recognition
OF the union. The committee, he said.
could not afford to pass such a tyran-
meal measure.
representatives
labor present, Mr.. Waltz remarked:
These fellows here, Mr.. O'ConnelI
and Mr.. Fuller know that the boycott
is unlawful and an unfair method, and
yet they use it because they believe
they can coerce men to enter into
agreements in favor of their organiza-
TONS" He quoted Mr.. O'Connen as
stating in Chicago: I'VE will work for
a nine-hour day with ten hours pay;
w haf will g..
an eight-hour day with the same pay"
That does not appear to be GRIM
inal," interjected Mr.. O'Connell, who is
president of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists.
mo-" continued Mr.. Waltz, ''but you
said in that same speech that you did
not believe 'scab could ever get past
the gates of st. Peter; and this is the
sentiment of every walking delegate"
Chairman Jenkins called Mr. Waltz
to order, requesting him not to address
other than the committee.
Talks of Anarchy.
Mr.. Waltz declared that the courts
Of the country long ago had awakened
to the fact that there was anarchy in
the country, and he appealed to the
committee not to rob the courts of the
power they now had to suppress ii. The
bill, he said, was revolutionary in that
it sought to tear down the power of
the courts they had held for years in
protecting property.
George F. Hough, of Washington,
representing the Master Builders as
ISOLATION, presented a protest prepared
by his association. Mr.. Hough said
that for five years he was the secre-
tary of a labor organization, and that
the average attendance of it's meetings
was only 10 per cent of it's membership.
This organization had promulgated and
carried on a strike by the action of
only 20 per cent of its members. With
in the past few days he had asked fully
twenty leaders of labor unions about
the pending bill and none Of them had
even heard of 1T.
P. B. Oviatt, of Rochester, who said
he represented the entire invested cap
ital of Rochester and combined en-
ployers of Jamestown and Elmira,
spoke against the bill. Mr.. Oviatt de-
clared the country on the verge of a
volcanic commercial and economic rev.
olution. There was not, he said, a