Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-30
M K. Stubs Helped
Pass Labor Laws
So says FranEs Curry, Union babor Man
TeHN D. WEHRLE, EDITOR.

Frank Curry of Topeka vice-president FEEDER
alton Topeka
Cigar Makers Union No has the following
open N Burge in reply Burgess letter W. R
Curry brought the letter the Capital Office and
that it be published. The letter in full follows:
TOPEKA, KANSAS July 6, 1908
>e'N B. Burge Bond Broker,
"Topeka, Kansas
DEAR Sn:-Your of 29 1908, W. R Stubbs
The gagged trying assmate noticed
the that letter has the OF Samuel
president the A. F. of L. and he calls all organized
yyorkingmen and their friends to defeat w. R stubbs
That is where and took notice. By what hook
crook waiting process did the Endorsements
you power behind you in circles, visible the
eye Surely Gompers would
recognize champion of organized labor What union
are you or Have the bond brokers organzed Are
they eligible affiliate? If why don't get into the A F. of
L.. body, regular decent?
II have member of the central body for years and
you years. you affiliated
labor circles general o, do remember
member OF the Topeka Federal Labor union years
ago you candidate Office the hands Kansas
ion and overwhelmingly defeated Now Napoleon
Burge who union he Federal Labor unon)
by?rafting healers entirely Your
OF holding the petty politicians during campaign for beer
And heard from again the of organized labor
The organization that you was member OF is dead Dead Dead
shank goodness.
''Why do you undertake to a
regular channel through which politicians should when
eciety during
the session OF 1905 W. H. Subbs was the speaker OF the House,
in fact he it that and recognized by
"Now you all of your kind things that
accomplished in that speak personal
edge legislative Society got
and better passed that than any other
in the history Kansas records it, Surely
YOU hisyou through
troubes few in the House, the Senate For in
House passed miners escape shaft BILL
House passed child bill
and the Senate defeated it, then cold feet backed
np and passed the bill
W. r unwritten record and he were a
cunning politician would long ago.
Legislation in that session such that could feel proud
Here things lie The Legislative
nttee from the Society of Labor of which chairman
united Speaker Stubs lists of OF House members
caus appoint on
4he House committees labor and mines mining
Speaker Stubs complied entirely naming
referred to these therefore, the With
against labor legsaion
hardly get bin through Your entire charge against
ubbs, summed the of
OF he crime? not?
howl W. Stubbs OF omission on the
arnishmen In the 1905 legislative
Legislative in killing
four garnshment bills and they all killed the Judi
iary One bill that passed Senate and
groerymen there headed by secretary the
Grocery Association lobbying for the BILL judiciary
committee killed the bill for W. K Stubs appointed
committee.
you say that organized labor for lust and equitable
desires organized labor
5ng There such thing just and equitable gar
conceivable garnishmen law and the tricky pad
before bringing action collect
that knows of the abuses praced
law You had well assume that the Kansas home
favor of repeating the homestead exemption law.
You ". r.. absent and not voting on
you produce pese OF legs
interest In the against
ahe repeal OF barb
Had Speaker Stubbs presiding day the barber
law would repealed the the
speaker by high banded rulings carried bill through
that repealed the law