The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-05
ORGANIZED LABOR
SENATOR'S THEME
IN NEWPORT NEWS
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day should be divided into three parts
eight hours for work. eight hours
for sleep and eight hours for refresh
ments and recreation. He favored
the safety appliances proposed by Ia
Dor organizations for railroads. and
measures for the advancement Of the
laboring class and their families.
Senator Martin closed with decla-
ration that II he is shown that the
labor laws are being disregarded in
Virginia he will leave Washington
and come back to raise his voice and
lend his assistance in every way TO
see that they are enforced.
Speak In Newport News.
Senators Martin and Swanson to-
night addressed the voters OF New
port News In behalf Of their candidacy
for the Senate, the audience which
greeted them being large. While Sem
ator Martins voice was bad, he dis
cussed the Issues OF the campaign for
| more than an hour. In speaking of
the Barbour Thompson letters, Sena-
| tor Martin said he had helped to- raise
/ thousands OF dollars in tho interest or
white supremacy and civilization. That
! ne was proud Of what he had accom-
He had no apologies to make.
senator Swanson spoke at length re-
garding what had been accomplished
Tor the public schools. good roads and
free circulating libraries during his
! term AS governor; that during that
time the Legislature and the Governor
/ we're never closer. and that Virginia
had been raised to progressive State
He presented figures to disprove the
de nv
as to the depleted condition OF the
treasury. when he vacated the row.
ernors chair. He also went over his
record during his thirteen years in
congress, and one year In the Senate
and said that his opponent was una
bic to bring one charge as to his
actions during that time,
Position On Labor.
Senator Swanson devoted a good
deal OF attention to the position of
Mr.. Glass on the labor question He
said:
10 carter Glass your friend7 He
claims to be, but look at his record.
In the state Senate he voted against
the Employer Liability Bill, In the
Constitutional Convention he did not
| speak. he did not vote. he did not pair
on this most important measure. Be
fore he became candidate for Of
owner Of a newspaper. no showed his
enmity to organized labor by the fol-
| lowing vicious editorial, written and
published while the bill was pending
IN the Legislature to establish the
bureau Of labor:
The Lynchburg News, Jan. "a, 1928.
Garter Glass. Owner and Editor"
| "A Dill to create a bureau of labor
Is under consideration in the Legis-
F mr. -
It's only beneficiaries will be the men
who win draw the salaries attached
to 1t. Virginia laborers will derive
no more benefit from 1t than Virginia
farmers do from the State Agricul-
turai and Railroad Boards. but it will
increase the expenditures, though 1t
was to decrease them that the mem
bers Of the Legislature were elected
/ Alexandria Gazette.
| Exactly so. 1t is proposed. In
spirit of miserable demagogy, to
| Gomperize Virginia by creating an
impertinent nosing official, at a. high
salary. to meddle with other peo-
pies business. The memb ers of the
! Legislature who vote for any such
vicious measure ought to be consign-
, ed to oblivion by their constituents
II has been the boast of the South
/ that no such professional agitators as
Sam Gompers and Terence Powderiy
have ever received countenance In this
section: and it will be an evil day
/ for Virginia when enough demagogues
! get in her legislative halls to dis
| credit that boast as to this State The
! cotton and wooden mill Industries of
| New England are being broken down
to-day because OF restrictive legisla-
zion enacted upon the demand OF
high salaried walking delegates OF
the Gompers type, and the mills OF
the South are increasing and flourish
ing because OF freedom from such de-
/ testible Interference. AS We have
said before, Virginia LIS the only South
ern States that has any restrictive
statutes at all and Is. consequently.
the only Southern States that is not
increasing in cotton mills. Instead OF
repeating the legislation we have,
in order to enable our mills to com
pete with the mills OF other Southern
States. 1t is proposed to enact other
mischievous laws We sincerely hope
and confidently predict. that Governor
Tyler will have the courage and
| good sense to strange the life oat
of this proposed Bureau OF Labor If
1t should pass the General Assembly"