The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-04-03
TEMPERATE REPORT
GIVEN TO WORKERS
Labor's RED Book" on Last
Legislature Applies White
wash Considerably.
National News Association)


INDIANAPOLIS, April 3.-Some
things which the recent Legislature did
for labor and many things which it
refused to do are set forth in the Red
Book issued yesterday by the state
legislative board of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen. The tone of the
report Is extremely temperate, but it
suggests names of certain legislators
to be considered by wage-earners as
hostile to labor interests. 1t also
names men of the legislature who
were especially friendly to labor's
cause and lists other legislators who
are not to be condemned.
It is notable that in the Red Book
the list of labor bills defeated is much
more impressive than Is the brief list
of labor bills passed, but the Red
Book does not enlarge upon this fea-
ture of the situation. In short, there
Is nothing in the report. made by Fred
L. Feick, w Gray and William
Knowles, to cause complaint among
the Democrats who controlled the
Legislature and who assumed respon-
sibility for turning down the various
bills which were rejected in spite of
the urgings of Mr.. Feick and his
associates.
Sets Out the Facts.
The Red Book does not partake OF
the be1ligerent and strongly critical
tone assumed by labor organization
men at the time their bills were be-
ing turned down by the lawmakers
r1fo
to draw their own differences.
There is in the report a warning
to laboring men that the enactment
of the public service commission law
and the shifting of the Railroad Com
mission to new work may leave an
opening for violations of the laws by
railroad corporations. The report
suggests that the laboring men keep
watch and report such law violations.
Those on the labor champion list
of legislators, according to the Red
Book, are Senators CRUDE, Curtis,
Faulkner, Carleton, Traylor, McCor-
mick, Stotsenberg, Akin and Harmon
and Representatives Carter. Franklin,
Thornton, Hoddinott, Van Horne, Dun
mire, J. P. Davis, Boyer, Filter. Koe-
mig, Masselink, Friend, w. w. Spencer,
Duncan, Mitchell, Cunningham, Tingle,
Smith, Keegan, Patton, Gardner, Ly-
day, Branaman, Chapman, Bedwell,
Weisman and Perry Davis.
unfriendIy Are Named.
AS unfriendly the report names SEN
ator Kolsem and G. G. Wood and Re-
representatives. Beatty, Biddle, Bos.
Daugherty, Dugan, w. M. Jones, JUS
tus, Miller, Riley. Weidler, Coons,
Crawford, Deck, Genolin, Hawkins.
Durham, Hayes, Kaufman, Moran,
Moellering, Combs, Norris, Roland,
Isenbarger, Judkins and Sale.
The lawmakers who are put forward
by the report and recommended to the
labor voters for support are the fol-
lowing:
Senators CRUDE, Adams, Baber,
Clarke. Harmon, Harlan, Parks, Hib-
berd, Van Auken, Gavit, Gers, Green
well, Jackson, Stotsenburg, Shively,
Cleveland, Curtis, Elsner Trayior,
Neal. Krau, VanNuys, Engle, Strange,
jackson, kaufman, Carleton. Akin,
Faulkner, Hauck, Ballou, Mccormick.
Lamont, Trautmann. Yarling, Gelts,
Rats. Kistler and Gearing, and Repre-
sentatives Carter. Franklin, Friend
Thornton. LydAy. Branaman, Bed
well, vanHorne, j.. p. Davis, Carroll,
Stahl, Diel Kemp. Adam, Franks,
Eschbach, Miller. Aysrn. @. w. Spen-
Ger, Koenigss Keeean 5er1ner, Patton,
TlnSle, Bege Dun1aira Wolf, Gun
nineham, Cravens. MoCabe. Ensle.