The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-04-22
Session Just Closed Distinguished
for Defeat of All Progress
sive Legislation.
BIG INTERESTS HAD IT
ALL THEIR OWN WAY
Certain St. Louis County Legis-
lators, However, True to
the Peoples Interests.
BY w, II. M'EWEN.


respondence)-The legislature for
1911 has adjourned. The big inter-
ests are pleased beyond measure. In
other days when they wanted things
for their benefit the legislature could
not be in session long enough. II
everything they wanted was not out
of the way they would station some
trusty servant near the clock, and 1t
would be pushed back, just to suit
their purpose.
Attitude of Big interests.
However, a change has taken
place. The big interests are not ask
ing for legislation these days. All
they want is to be left alone. The
trouble is the people are the request
ers for legisla lions, and they have
strong. So in the dying days of the
1911 legislature when it was seen
that the best progressive measures
of the session were to be acted upon.
the interests, not to be outdone by
the practices of the past, had burly
DULLES stationed near the clock of
the house of representatives, and for
the first time in ffty-five years the
Minnesota legislature adjourned just
on the moment required by the con-
stitution of the state
Record in History.
The legislature which adjourned on
Wednesday will go down in history
as the least constructive Of all past
law making bodies in this state. 1t
likewise was the most expensive.
There was nothing but fllbustering
from the time that Speaker Dunn
was elected until the gavel fell on
Tuesday at midnight.
House Given Credit.
= Inc house. Was nots-srsO had. o.. It
passed a large number of progressive
measures. 1t erred occasionally, but
1t made good as it approached tho
finish. 1t made a botch Of one bill
the initiative and referendum-but
there were many reasons why this
bill passed the house in bad form.
Livery advocate Of true reform
through the principle of direct legis-
lation had hoped that the senate
would put the proper amendments In
the bill. We all waited in expectan-
cy for the senate to act, but It simply
dall1ed with the measure until the
end of the senate. and then ad-
journed without reaching the
measure.
St. Louis County Men.
Harry Cheadle of Duluth and James
Boyle of Eveleth, Democrat and Re-
publican respectively, emerge from
this session with their heads erect.
I am proud Of these representatives
from St. Louis county, and also of
Representative Ribenack. They come
out Of the legislature with. an envi-
able record
Senator Harry Cheadle.
Senator Harry Cheadle remained
true to every promise he made dur
ing the campaign, and even the So
clallsts of Two Harbors acknowledged
that he was true blue to the finish.
II he believed with the laborinx
classes on measure he told them
So and acted accordingly. If he did
not they knew where to find him.
Senator James Boyle.
senator James Boyle had a hard
Dattle. He came from the Republi-
can strongholds. He was under the
influence of old party leadership,
W1llcuts and others Of the old regime
dld th'r best to keep Senator Boyle
on the we'll trodden road of stand
pattsm, but it did not work. They
TOOK the young senator from Eve
leth UP on the mountain ton. Thov
showed him all the political, kjn1-
dons of the earth, and pointed ont
TO him the way of easy access,
Loyal to His Convictions.
Mr.. Boyle. however, had chosen
his own pathway, and when the time
came for him to act on progressive
measures he proved true to his con-
v1ctions, and hurled ambition to the
winds. He. and he alone, is respons-
IDLE Tor the final passage of the
keefe bill, which provides for the
election Of United States senators by
direct vote Of the people.
senator Boyle came to the rescue
of the measure at the opportune mo-
ment, and when he did so he forever
surrendered the political support OF
Lee W1llcuts, Ed. Hawkins, Odin
Halden and the rest of the staid
machine politicians of St. Louis coun-
W. The people, however, will be
with the young and valiant senator
from the north, and predict for him
bright and prosperous future.
"A Further Review, >'a
expect in the next issue to review
at length the work of the thirty-sev-
enth legislature. So far as labor il
concerned it Jared poorly as usual.
5Inere was not one statewide labor
measure passed. V. =
The Man in Overalls. 49, -
In a discussion on enacting con-
stltutlonal amendment, which, if ap-
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