The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-20

and its consideration was postponed until
the next session.
Points in Protest.
The treatment that labor received called
forth the celebrated protest of Gompers
and the labor leaders, which was ad-
dressed to the president and which con-
tanned the following points:
First-They complain that the eight
hour law is grievously and frequently vio-
lated: that since len they have vainiy
the defects of that law and extending
its provisions TO all work done on be
half of the government: that recently,
without hearing to the advocates of
elght-hCur legislation. law was passed
by congress and signed by the president.
as rider on an appropriation bill. null
lnyinS the eight-hour law and principle
in it's application to the greatest public
work ever undertaken by our govern
ment-the construction of the Panama
canal"
Second-They complain that no heed has
been paid to labor's request for llegisla-
ton safeguarding it against the compe-
tition Of COnvicts.
Third-They complain that no result has
followed their demand for relief against
the evils OF induced and undesirable i'm
migration; that the Chinese exclusion
law is being 'flaSrantly violated and
that il is now seriously proposed TO in
validate that law and reverse cur pol
Fourth-They complain that equal rights
arc denied to seanen: that even the par
tial relief afforded them by the laws of
1898 and 1898 have been threatened at each
succeeding congress; that petitions in be-
half OF the seamen have been Genied and
Il disposition shown to extend to other
workmen the system Of compulsory la
Dor. and that, rundeT the guise of a
bill to subsid;ze the shipping industry. a
provision is Incorporated. and has already
Passed the senate. providing for a form of
CONSUMPTION which would make compuI-
a a.l.a,,,
to employment on privately owned YES
sells
Dangers to Workingmen.
Fift-They complain that undermining
and unskilled manring of vessels are
largely responsible for disasters like the
Dor and the wreck of the Rio de Janeiro
at San Francisco with their. terrible and
unnecessary loss of human life and that
measures presented by them more in the
interest of the public than of them
selves. calculated to prevent such calami-
ties have not been adopted
Sixth-They complain that they have
Valnly sought the passage of law pre-
scribing that barges towed az sea shall
be properly manned and equipped so as
TO avoid the loss of life now frequently
involved in cutting them loose during
storms ana leaving the crews to perish.
SeVenth-They complain that the anti
trust and interstate commerce laws en-
acted to protect the people against mo-
it'PoiN III the OF labor, and
against discrimination in the transporta-
ton thereof. have been perverted so far as
the laborers are concerned, so as to in
wade and violate their personal liberty
as guaranteed by the constitution" and
that their repeated efforts to obtain re-
dress from congress have been in vain.
Elghth-They complain of the abuse of
the "beneficent' writ of Injunction in
ls.bor disputes. claiming that il has been
perverted from the protection of property
rights to the destruction of personal free
dem. and that there is a threat of stat
utory authority for eXising judicial usur-
patton"
Ninth-They complain that the commit
tee OF the house having Jurisdiction of
matters particularly of interest to labor
have been constituted inimically to it.
and that REQUESTS to the speaker to rem
edy this condition as apparent in the last
two congresses have been followed in the
present congress by even an accentuation
OF the condition.
Tenth-They complain that the Consti-
tCtional right of petition has been invaded
by the executive order recently issued
"forbidding any and all government en-
ployes. upon pain of instant dismissal
from the government service. to petition
congress for any redress of grievances or
for any improvement in their condition"
Aid in Derocratic PARTY