The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-30
RAILROAD MEN DEFEAT
| IMPORTANT LABOR LAW
Chairman Vail of Senate Labor
Committee Deluged With Pro-
tests From Workers,
Railroad Employees Oppose Semi
Monthly Pay Bill-Free La
dor Bureau Bill.

st. Paul, March 28.-The cause Of
organized labor has it's watchful and
jealous advocates and defenders in
but their counsels are often confused
and their efforts rendered abortive by
false friends Of the cause among the
ranks Of unionism itself.
For instance, a bill providing for
the semi-monthly pay of workingmen
was literally slaughtered by union la
borers. Chairman VAIL Of the senate
committee on labor, had protests
against this bill from railroad work.
men all over the state, in which they
stated strongly that they did not want
it. as it would be a detriment to them.
The bill providing for the estab-
lishment Of a. state printing office is
now before the committee on printing
in the house and ngeneral orders
in the senate.
orders in the house and was only in
troduced in the senate yesterday.
The bill providing for a sixteen
hour day, and requiring three years
experience as fireman for locomotive
engineers, which had apparently been
killed in the house, was resurrected
| Wednesday, and is now on general or
| ders in that body.
The state free employment bureau
bill has passed the senate, and is be-
! for the committee on appropriations
| in the house.
The bill to create a bureau of in
dustry, labor and commerce, which
| will take the place of the present bu-
reau Of labor, has just come out Of
the committee on general legislation
| in the senate, where it was so amend
ed that It's most intimate friends
scarcely know It, Its provisions are
somewhat in doubt just now, and so
| is its fate. In the house it is before
the committee on appropriations.
The initiative and referendum bill
| is before the committee on the judi
ciary in the house and on general
| orders in the senate.
The bill introduced by Representa-
| tive Brown prohibiting any junk deal
| er, secondhand dealer, pawnbroker
or other person from purchasing or
receiving on deposit or pledge any
| goods or anything Of value from a
| minor, and providing penalties there
for, has been passed by both houses
| and become law.
The prison labor bill, which allows
| the manufacture of farm. machinery
! In the states prison, provides for a
| committee Of three to determine what
percentage Of prisoners shall at diff
| ferent times work on different arti-
cles. The commissioner of labor is to
| be chairman Of this committee, and
| it's other two members are to be one
| Of the members Of the board Of con-
troll and a citizen to be appointed by
the governor. This bill has passed
the house and is On general orders in
| the senate.
A bill changing the amount of a
laborer's wages that can be gar
| nished from all over $25 a month to all
| over $3.50 week was killed in the
senate judiciary committee.
"A bill providing for the periodical
inspection Of passenger and freight
elevators in all buildings has been
| introduced in both house and senate
In the house it is before the COM
! mittee on general legislation and in
the senate before the tri-county
Q1ennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis)
| delegation.