The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-14
CHILLY RECEPTION MEETS LEADERS OF
 LABOR IN ATLANTA
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tCONIINU LIED FROM PAGE D sired relief retarded. no matter which party was the majority"
 MT. Gompers refers very briefly to the contempt court proceedings against Vice President John Mitchell, Secretary Morrison and himself. which are still pending before the courts in the District Of Columbia.
 McNamara Case
 The McNamara case, however, Is taken up at some length, and fully reviewed. President Gompers expresses his faith in the innocence of the men now on trial at Los Angeles for alleged dynarniting out rages and denounces in unmeasured terms their removal from Indiana to California.
 The Wilson bill, now pending in Con gress, a so called anti-injunction meas ure, which has the support of labor. is warmly indorsed and President Gompers calls upon all organized labor to work for it's early passage. MT. Gompers eX presses the belief that by united action the Wilson bill may be passed at the next session, and he expresses the opinion that even should it be vetoed by President Taft a great victory would be partly won. He declared labor could expect lit tie voluntary help from the President on the anti-injunction legislation
 To the subject of immigration, much of the report is addressed. Several plans are proposed for bringing the migratory labor into the ranks of organized labor Further restriction of immigration is deemed necessary and schemes of dis tribution of immigrants are discussed.
 Turn which way we may, the fact in- variaby confronts us, in our endeavor to amelorate the lot of the laborers now in America, that there must be a restriction of inDnipra tiOn friction rprOnl- mended by the United States immigration commission is If not the first step toward organizing migratory laborers, at least an essential step. There are sufficient workers on the Pacific coast at the pres ent time, were their shifting about intelli' gently systematized, to perform all the pressing work there throughout all the seasons of the year. The main trouble has been that the employers have not paid any adequate attention to the laborer as | social entity except at the moment when one is to be hired. Society has not concerned itself seriously about the casual worker. 5...
 "'The early completion of the Panama canal, however will without doubt bring about a total change in the labor situation of the Pacific coast, both internally and with relation to other countries. It has already been calculated that immigrants | from Europe may be landed via the Pan- ana canal at Pacific coast seaports for a less sum than is required to pay the pas sage to inland points in states of the middle west It is to be remembered that l the enormous fleets of foreign vessels which are in the immigration trade are seeking business the world over. In a | single year. aided by the climate, the pres | ent transatlantic fleet could carry 500,00C wage workers from the southeast of Flu | rope to the Pacific coast ports, while also | transporting the average yearly number | to the Atlantic coast ports. This is q more than probable forthcoming condition to be faced by our fellow trade unionists 1 of Washington. oregon and California" l In the Federation's fight for employers liability and workingmen's compensation laws, progressive legislation is reported from the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York. Ohio California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Yer mont Washington and Wisconsin. Tn work of the commission, which has beer hearing suggestions for federal laws, Ii highly commended and 1t is expected tha
 some report will be made to the coming
 Congress.
 The work of the United States bureal
 of mines in establishing mine rescue sta
 tions through the coal regions and tn
 campaign of education which the bureal | has been carrying on among miners | l warmly commended.
 The report indorses the bill introduce'
 at the last Congress by Representative
 Sulzer of New York. creating a depart ment of labor in the federal government.
 In an appeal for better laws to protec
 life and health in factory buildings, Pres
 ident Gompers refers to the fire in tn
 Triangle Shirt Waist company's building
 in New York last April, in which 143 girl
 lost their lives.
 In scoring the so-caled efficiency an'
 scientific management systems, Presiden
 Gompers declared as false statement
 that the systems have increased wages
 He charged that the systems work nm
 due harship on the labor and result il
 no material gain.
 [, The fight of the eight hour day. Presi dent Gompers said is steadily going on and. he declared that labor men coul ! find satisfaction in the fact that the las { congress applied the eight hour law { construction of battleships. and tha \ those provisions of the law had been pu ] into effect by the executive officers o ! tho government.
 Among the other subjects treated in tn report are child labor, locomotive boile inspection the Danbury hatters' case, tn senate third degree investigation, sea