The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-21
.SULzER IS
PLUGGING
/ MEASURE
LABOR LEADERS LEAVE
CASE TO NEW YORK
MEMBER
SAYS IT IS NOT IN
ANY WAY A TRUST
Bill Defining Status and Pro-
vldlng For a Bureau AgItates
Many Members

Washington, d. c.. Feb. II "A
national labor council, TO become
part of tha President of United States
official family. with its secretary.lu-
chief cabinet officer, is by far the
most radical measure before the pres
ent congress.
This bin has been introduced by
Representative Sulzer OF New York
and has closely followed the methods
of labor. bodies IN large cities in the
formation of their central labor
councils. There "A to be d dppart-
ment of labor and secretary Of Ia.
Dor, with six assistant secretaries,
Who shall respectively supervise sub
divisions devoted TO manufacturing
industries, agriculture, transportation.
mining, building and matters relat-
ing to mercantile industries.
The secretary Of this department
OF labor shall have the power to APP
point boards Of arbitration and all
matters pertaining 10 immigration
shall come under It's control.
And mark the point Suffers bill,
IL carried, will once for all settle the
question of the national recognition
OF organized labor There will be no
ridiculous couplings of commerce
and labor" subterluge patiently
made TO avoid direct recognition of
trades unions and 70 please big cor.
porations who are At war with the
craft organizations IN their plants
That The backing Of this bill is part
Of the program OF attack planned by
the American Federation OF Labor
upon the United Steel corporation is
generally believed.
Sulzer has more than once allow
ed himself to be the means where
by, In labor crisis, Gompers voiced
the position of the American Fedora
tion to the house of representatives..
An entire editorial from the Ameri-
can Federationist was once read into
the Congressional Record by Mr.. Sui
zci and Oh another occasion he made
plain The position Of the Washington
labor leaders that organized labor
was not a ltusl Suffers words are
as follows.
III my opinion thefe Is great us
tinction between the legal RESPONSE
blllty Of a corporation and a trades
union. They differ widely A cor
poration is an artificial person crc-
ated by law. and what the state ere.
ates the state has a right to regu-
| late The trades union Il volun-
tary association Of free individuals
possessed OF the same lights OF nc.
tion as belong to individuals and
destitute Of corporate rights and cor
pofate responsibility. The judges
and lawyers OF England and America
invented for labor unions the rule oi
corporate responsibility and sought tc
punish their acts as consplracles IN
restraint Of trade. This legal notion
the English statute expressly abol
ished and made 1t lawful for an asso
citation OF worklngmen 10 do what
ever Is legal for an individual work
ingman."
But before a Department OF La
boF' becomes an established fact, as
set forth In Suffers BILL known as
II X 36iG, every weapon Of the lob
bies in tho employ OF the big cor
poratlons win be used for IT'S destruc
ton. The life or death struggle vii
take place In the committee rooms
whore experts in stranglng are con
/ stantly employed.