Bisbee daily review., 1912-06-02
LABOR WONDERS WHAT CONGRESS MAY ACCOMPLISH Leaders Are Getting Restless as Adjournment Approach es Without Passage of
 Many Bills A FEW MEASURES
 WILL BECOME LAWS Organizations Think Time Has Come to Stop In-
 veStigating and
 Act
A FEW MEASURES
 WILL BECOME LAWS

WASHINGTON. June 1-Organizad
 labor leaders are wondering whore
 The! are at now that the en1 or in.
 congress session is beginning to ap.
 phoach They are getting restless in
 'he situation in which they ind pro.
 posed legislation for the bena6t of Ia.
 DOT. At the beginning of the session,
 theS had great hopes of accomplish.
 ing much and getting a number Of
 tneir important bills put through. Now
 'hat hope Is waning. They are getting
 susplclous that their bills are being
 "hlpsawed between the two houses
 and that when the session IS over
 1hey VIII find comparatively little has
 been done to pass legislation which
 idDor Tor years has been insisting or.
 ihe result of this situation is to
 make organized labor begin to con template politicsl activity in the cam palen this summer and fall Ia
 DOT leaders say they are not goina 10 nave any wool pulled over their
 'hls tune. If the important tney are demanding fall by the way sue they are going to judge for them 1 serves where the responsibility lies i ana are not going to rest content by | haNlng republicans throw the bIarue | on democrats and democrats throw the blame on republicans.
 "A glance at the legislative situation
 ii the two houses showes that in spite o' the general feeling that much would oohe Tn way of labor legislation nneh congress met last December mere mas not been great deal accom- hnF fg ,I m me way or laws wanted by labor thal IS actually within sight of the statute books. This. say the labor ieauers, IS what counts. They say it IS all well and good to get measures out oi the committee. but if at the end or the long session of congress they are not passed the chances are the whole thing will have to be done over again.
 Many Labor Bills Introduced
 The anti-injunction hill has nasead ', the house, but there is no sign if win ! pass the senate this session. The con ' wet labor bill is in the same situation ! The workman's comDensation bill has : passed the senate. but there is little ' nope of 1t passing the house this ses- ' slon. The department of labor bill is [ being urged in the house. and or q sanized labor is strong for fl but U there seems to be no hope fl will qo through both houses this session
 The bill putting fraternal and v .rades union publications on the same d Dasls as commercial publications has n passed the house. but has stil onDosL u tlon in the senate. Passage of the D government employees compensatiou . blil is unlikely. Clayton's bill for trIaI V by jury in cases of indirect contemnt and the industrial education bill seem U To stand no chance of passing this c session. Legislation for the reIiey of - Seamen may be brought about and S mere will be strong pressure to crowd u ' through in view of the Titanic dis u tster. 0'@- tC
 Passage Of the children's bureau ~ 'ill and the bill to prohibit manufac- II ture or the white phosphorus match. 'oth or which are through, marks. a ', ,tep ahead though the bills are not II ieemed by organized labor as of pri- ' mary importance, although helpfuI dd The provision against the "gag rule ~ or postal employees in the post office t' Dill IS also considered an important u step ahead, though it remains to ba " ec1 what the senate will do about il a' The expectation is the senate will "l ass it, though opposition is, beginning VI O spring up. The eight-hour provision oi or clerks and carriers in the postal ervice will go through both houses. o This is a step forward for labor.
 The industrial commission bill is u 'ending in both houses. If it passes. s to which there is a good deal of it will mean an investiga- ion into industrial conditions that 7ill he valuable. Organized labor is lkewarm toward this proposition, owever. because it is declared there as been enough investigating, and V he time has come to act n
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