The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-06-21
THE LEGAL PHASE.
Legislature and Legal Matters That
Affect Trades Unions.

Legislature and Legal Matters That
Affect Trades Unions.
ceeded in defeating a non-union cloth
ing manufacturer for place on the
city police board.
The British government has appoint
eG Mr.. Ernest AYES as commissioner
tn investigate, on the spot, the work
ings of the various labor laws in Aus
tralia.
Judge Cochrane, in the federal court
at Covington, KY, recently upheld the
law prohibiting common carriers from
discrimination against labor organiza-
tons.
An immigration bill now pending in
the British Columbia legislature i'm
poses an educational qualification,
which it is believed, will result in bar
ring Chinese, Japs and Hindoos.
Secretary of War Taft has given
orders to the engineer officers of the
war department to enforce to the letter
the eight-hour law as applied to public
works under their direction.
Governor Folk, of Missouri, has
signed the bill passed by the recent
Legislature, prohibiting railway tele
graph operators handling train orders,
from working more than eight hours in
one day. At day stations where but
one operator is employed, an operator
may work twelve hours.
Something new in labor injunctions
was issued by Judge Loring of the SUI
preme court recently in Boston, when
he restrained Transfers Union No.
rs from paying the carfare out of the
city of non-union men brought there
t. break the teamsters' strike.
Queensland labor members have
called the attention of the Australian
federal government to the influx of
Cinnamon, who are alleged to be avoid
ing the immigration restriction laws
by landing at some port in Australia
where there are no government restric-
| tons.
At the recent Political Labor Confer
ence, in, Sydney, Australia, the follow
ing resolutions brought forward by the
Trades and Labor Council were car
ried: THAT this conference protests
against the introduction of l, alien i'm
migrants; and 2, the Introduction of
white immigrants until better facilities
for their employment are offered"
There is a feature of the British
workmen's compensation act, which
will be in force from July 1, 1907, that
shows the thoroughness of the legis-
lation secured through the efforts of
the labor members of the recent parlia-
ment. Not only does the act provide
for the payment of indemnity to me-
chanics and laborers in cases of dam
age by accident, but domestic servants
are also included in the protected
classes.
The Trades Union Congress of
France, at it's annual session, held re-
Gently, defeated by $50 to votes a
motion to enter into permanent rela-
tions with the Socialists, and adopted
J resolution to hold aloof from poll
tics and devote the energies of the
trade unions for the present to amelio-
; ration of the condition of the work.
ing men of France, advocated reduc-
ton of the hours of labor, the increase
of wages. ETC.. but declared the ad,
herance of the congress to the prin.
J ciples of a general strike.
Union labor in Portland, Ore, has
decided to enter the coming municipal
campaign with full ticket of its own
Because of the attitude of the pres
ent municipal administration, labor
has decided to alter it's former policy
{ which was to indorse candidates OF
other parties. The promoters of the
I new party believe that they can gel
the support of all the organized work
ers of the city and the support of q
majority of the unorganized workers
2 as well as that of considerable per
centage of the business men.
s Involving only a small amount o.
s money, but what is considered large
principle, the Atlantic Mills carried the
f case brought against them by Franz
( CYCLIC, a minor, to the superior cour
in Providence, and a few days agt
the Jury in Judge Browns court re