The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-05-20
President Of Minnesota Employ
ers' Association Wants Screws
Put on Duluth Senators.
SAYS $500 DEATH BILL
WORK OF LABOR AGITAToRs
Herzog Lets "Cat Out Of Bag"
Secret Of Opposition to Work.
mems Compensation.
(By W. f.. NIcEWEN.)

Senator Cheadle of Duluth mas
been put under the lash of the Of
fcers of the Minnesota Employers
association. Senators Boyle and
Pugh are included in the list of
legislature. Duluth employers are
urged to find some way of voicing
their protest against the St. Louis
county senators that will cause them
to sit up and take notice." for no
other reason than that they voted
for the Lundeen bill which increases
liability for death by wrongful act
from $4,000 to $1,000.
Herzog Abuses Labor Men.
Phil w. Herzog, president of the
association. is deluging Duluth en-
ployers with letters, giving them the
legislative records, from the organized
employers standpoint, of the men,
bers Of the legislature from this por-
ton of the state. These letters are
filled with villification and abuse of
the men Of labor who worked earnest
~ and devotedly for the passage of
measures calculated to improve the
condition of the working classes in
Minnesota.
Employers Position Exposed.
The letters fully expose the position
OF the employers as represented by
Mr.. Herzog. towards the question Of
workingmen's compensation. They
we'll know that labor will not unite
on any bill that will not give to the
injured workman fair measure Of
justice. All the Herzog class of en-
ployers seem to see in personal In
jury Is dollars The human side of
the question possesses no attractions
for them.
Local Employer Bolts.
One of the recent letters sent out
by Mr.. Herzog was received by an
employer of labor in Duluth last
week. This employer is "a close
student of economic questions, is
fully conversant with the progress
thus: far made for workingman's COM
pensation in Minnesota, and as a re-
suit has become sorely grieved at the
officers of the Minnesota Employers
association of which ne is member.
"Make Them Sit Up and Take Notice.
Believing that the public should
know something of the tactics of the
Herzog organization the Duluth en-
ployer has turned the letter over to
the Labor World. This is how it
reads:
I'VE enclose copy of official record
OF vote in senate which passed house
Tile No. "a, introduced by Representa-
tive Lundeen, increasing the amount
recoverable for death by accident
from $1,000 to $500. the vote being
3: to 80.
Senator Cheadle not only voted for
the bill. but fought energetically for
its passage. You will note that Sem
ators Boyle and PugL also voted for
the bill:
The hin would not have passed il
the senators VINO promised to oppose
1t mad kept their word.
I'VE hope that you will find some
way Of voiciag your protest against
their action that will cause them to
nit up and take notice.
Calls Labor Men Demagosues,
The principal advocates of the
measure were lot OF paid labor
sx1t2tors. and it ia evident that many
who voted for the bill paid more at
tention to the crack OF the whin Of
these labor demagogues and their
threats OF political opposition if the
Vo!a was not cast as directed than
Trey did to the appeals of the business
men in the districts which they rem
resented.
Lets "Cat Out of Bag"
The next incoming legislature will
undoubtedly pass a workmen's COM
pensation law and the passage of the
lAundeen bill will result in fixing the
amount recoverable for death in .ne
compensation law greatly in excess
OF wnat it would have been, fixed at
If the Lundeen bill had been defeated,
consequently permanent future bur-
oen mas been AIDED to- the industries
OF our state. The passage Of the bill
also causes an immediate increase in
the cost of liability insurance prior
to the enactment of a scompensation
law" ~. - : =
attitude of Employers Association.
Ihe letter is signed by Phil. W. Her
zox, president H.
IN subsequent issues of the Labor
world we propose to discuss the sat-
t'.uae Of the Minnesota Employers
association with relation to working
q mems compensation. We pronost,
now to refer but briefly to the 9Lun-
oeen Dill raising the death limit from
5000 to $500. S-:.s... 21T
IN the first place this bill was not
1ntroduced by organized, labor, but by
.fI1'lndeen. and upon his own voli-
ton. ton hen m II was introduced the