The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-03

SOCIETY OF LABOR
Its Representatives Here to
Name Officers.
For Mine Inspector and Labor
Commissioner
LEON BISON AND ]. GORE
Socialists Resent Unseating OF
Stanton.
Will Pass observation-disclosures
Consolidation Plan.

For labor commissioner-John Gore
Pittsburg.
For state mine inspector-Leon Bison
Pittsburg.
These are the two men who in all
probability will be recommended To
Governor Hodges for appointment by
the State Society of Labor. Feeling
that the law changing the state LABOR
department from labor appointment 10
appointment by the governor, is favor
ed by the legislature and soon will be-
come law. the 800 delegates to the
convention in Topeka today decided
that the best action they could take
would be to influence Governor Hodges
to appoint their candidates.
At the morning session of the So
ciety of Labor no hint of drastic ac-
ton to prevent the passage OF the ao-
ministration labor commission was
given out by the delegates. If the law
passes. the labor unions Will ask the
governor to appoint as labor commits
sioner and mine inspector the above
mentioned men.
The mining department of the society
balloted and selected Leon Bison as
their representative this morning. The
society as a whole had five candidates
Dor. The candidates: John Gore, Pitts
burg; @. Bebeans, miner, Mulberry; A
S. McAllister, engineer, Herington; L.
E. Goodrich, railroad trainman. Par
sons, and Charles Danner, railroad
conductor. Fort Scott.
John Gore. who has been assistant
labor commissioner under the last ad-
ministration and has handled the work
of the office for some time, was the
faVorite candidate for the position.
Resent Action of State Senate.
The Socialist members of the State
Society of Labor and scores of dele
gates with other political affiliations
are in Topeka attending the conven-
ton. All of them are indignant at the
committee in unseating Fred W. STAN
ton of Mulberry and naming E. F.
Porter of Pittsburg as senator from
the Ninth district.
1T was an outrage and it has lost
Governor Hodges all his friends in this
part of the state said W. NJ. Tracy.
vice president of the Society of Miners
this morning. stanton was elected
fairly and squarely by 363 notes.-the
charges against him were untrue.
But we can do nothing.
And now comes this action of the
governor in abolishing our selection of
labor department officers. Our only
avenue of protection is to try and in
fluence the governor to appoint the
selection we make here today"
Late this afternoon it is probable
that the society will draw up a num-
Der of resolutions condemning the &C
tion of the administration in taking
away from them the power of labor
appointment Rumors of pending
resolutions were afloat today But the
general action, it is predicted. will be
meek on account of the favorable ac-
ton on the bill by the legislature.
The union organizations represent
ed in Topeka today: Miners, sheet
metal workers, street railway en-
ployees, bricklayers and masons, paint
ers. decorators and paperhangers, boil
ermakers and shipbuilders. raiIw ay
trainmen, locomotive firemen and en-
ginemen, locomotive engineers rail-
way carmen, cigar makers, coopers,
central bodies and trade councils. book
binders. blacksmiths theatrical stage
EMPLOYEES, machinists, pressmen, typo
graphical men. photographers cleo
trical workers, teamsters. tailors bak-
ers and confectioners, BARRIERS, ral!wa
conductors, plasterers, telegra pliers,
retail clerks, carpenters and joiners