The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-04
SIXTEEN YEARS IN CONGRESS- NOT ONE CHEERING WORD FOR
 LABOR IN ALL THAT TIME

Sherman antitrust act exempting la borers from the provisions of that law.
 Hill is on the Ways and Means com m1ttee, and was one of the inStru- mental committeeman who foisted up- on the country the recent Aldrich- Payne tariff b&lI, which is so generally
 Sperry is one of the oldest members of the Committee Post Office and Post Roads, and upon which commit parcels post were defeated; postal savings banks were long and bitterly contested; second class mail rights for trade union and fraternal publications were grudging1y allowed and the eight-hour day for post. office clerks and other employees of the post office has been denied. In fact the em- have been denied ordinary rights of citizenship because of the arbitrary rules established by the postmaster committee on Post Office and Post Roads At the present time employees at post offices are under charges to show why they should not be dis charged because they have allied them selves with organized labor in some sections of the country and because they have inspired outside citizens to plead for them when they could not plead for themselves for an equaliza- tiorf of pay: for an eight-hour day or AS hour week: for one days rest in Il, time over AS hours per week. Sperry has never turned a hand nor lent sympathetic ear to remedy any of the grievances herein recorded as applying to post office employees, or to advance any of the popular measures for the broadening of the Post Office Depart- ment in the interest of all the peo- pie.
 During this last session of the 61st Congress two bills of interest to rail- road employees have passed, one requir- ing common carriers to standardize all equipment so that greater measures of safety for railway employees would be provided.
 A Bureau of Mines was established which it is expected will be Of benefit to the Mine Workers.
 The Employers Liability bill for common carriers was amended.
 The Federal eight-hour law was ex- tended to the construction of revenue cutters, battleships, cOlliers and other vessels of the navy.
 No record vote was taken upon any of these measures and it is not known how the Connecticut delegation voted upon them; but the Congressional Rec ord contains no cheering word from any of this delegation in behalf of such beneficial legislation.
 When the Sundry Civil bill was be- fore the House and the section making an appropriation for prosecutions un- behalf of the government, was reached, Representative Hughes of New Jersey, offered this provisO:
 Provided further, that no part Of this money shall be spent in the prose cutioi of any organization or individ- uaI for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the in -creasing of wages shortening of hours or bettering the condition of labor or for any act done in the furtherance thereof not in itself unlawful"
 This proviso was adopted in commit tee of the whole and afterwards ac- cepted by the House in regular ses- sion.
 The Senate struck this proviso from the bill and when the Senate's action was reported to the House on June 21 the House refused to concur by vote present, 11S not voting. The House conferees were instructed to refuse to agree to the elimination of this pro viso Upon this vote Henry, Higgins and Hill are recorded as voting may, and Sperry is recorded as mot Vot- ing"
 On June 25 the House confereeg moved that the House recede. and concur, which meant that the House agree to the proposition of the Senate to eliminate this Droviso from the Sundry Civil bill. The motion by the conferees was carried by vote of 13s yeas and 130 nays, 16 answering as present.; 1O5 not voting. Henry, Higgins and Hill are recorded as vot- ing "aye, and Sperry as not NoI-
 Henry, -sperry and Hill have been reelected to each Congress since the ffty-fourth or since the year 1894. and there is not single thing on record in which either any of these men have aided labor in it's aspirations Higgins and Tilson are new men, ana by the way that they are commencing their public duties, they bid fair to equal the record of the older members of the delegation in opposition to Ia bor and the peoples interests. T1lson Is recorded the antitrust amend ment as voting with the balance of the dnInnati tinn namely against Labor.