Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-04-02
BILL AMENDS.
LABOR TROUBLES
Robert N. McWsde.

| WASHINGTON, April Both en-
ployers and their millions of employ
ees all over the land will feel an
abiding interest in bill Just intro
duced in the mouse and promptly re-
! ferred to the committee on Judiciary
which codifies, amends and revises
the lawssrelating to the judiciary in
| so far as they deal with certain
phases Of the law regulating cond-
tons between employed and employ.
ers. 1T has been prepared with some
care and offered by Congressman Will
son, of Pennsylvania, an oldtime coal
miner and q prominent member Of
the American Federation of Labor.
O1e long amendatory section seeks
to enact that no restraining order or
injunction shall be granted by any
court OF the United States, or Judge,
or the judges Of such court, in any
case between an employer and en-
ployees, or between employers and
employees. or between employees, or
between persons employed and per.
sons seeking employment, or invOlv'
ing or growing out Of a concerning
terms or conditions Of employment,
unless necessary to prevent irrepar.
able injury to property, or to proper.
right of the party making the appli'
cation, for. which injury there Is no
adequate remedy at law, and such
property and property right must be
particularly described in the applica-
ton, which must bein writing and
sworn to by the applicant, or by his
agent or attorney.
and no restraining order or in.
junction shall prohibit any person or
persons from terminating any rela-
ton OF employment, or from ceasing
to perform any work or labor, or from
recommending advising, or persMad.
ing others by peaceful means to do
so or from attending at or near q
house or place where any person re-
sides or works, or carries on business,
or happens to be for the purpose
peacefully obtaining or communicate
ing information, or of peacefully per-
suading any person to work or to OBJ
tain from working; or from ceasing
to patronize or to employ any party
to such dispute; or from recommend
ing, advising, or persllading others
by peaceful means so to do; or from
paying or giving to or Withholding
from any person engaged in such dis
pute any strike benefits, or other
moneys, or things of value; or from
peacably assembling at any place in
a lawful manner and for lawful pur-
poses; or from doing any act or thing
which might lawfully be done in the
absence of such dispute by any party
thereto.
Another section seeks to enact that
In cases arising in the courts CT the
United States, or coming before those
courts, or any of their judges, no
agreement betwee two or more per-
sons concerning the terms or condi-
tions of employment, or the assump.
tioa, or creation or termination of
any relation between employer and
employee, or concerning any act or
thing done, or not to be done with
reference to or involving or growing
out Of any labor dispute, shall consti.
tute a conspiracy or other civil or
criminal offense, or be punished or
prosecuted, o. damages recovered up
on. unless the act or thing done, or
agreed to be done, or not to be done,
would be unlawful or wrongful II done
by single individual, nor shah the
entering into or carrying out Of any
agreement with relation thereto be
restrained or enjoined.
Another labor measure has also
just been referred to the same house
committee for its considerations Its
parent is Congressman Pepper of
lowe, and he proposes through 1t to
regulate the method Of directing the
work Of government employees.
This bill seeks to make it unlawful
for any officer, manager, superinten-
dent, foreman. or other pQxson having
charge Of the works Of any employee
Of the United States government to
make or cause to be made with a
stop watch. or other time measuring
device Time study Of thu movements
Of any such employee, Of to pay, or
cause or allow to be paid to any such
employee any premium or bonus as
wages or otherwise.
A provision to tho bill excerpts that