The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-10-09
STAND PATS
AT OLYMPIA
STARTED EIGHT-HOUR LAW
IN HOPES TO BREAK AL
LANCE OF UNIoNIsTs AND
FARMERS.


are trying to forget the origin of the
universal eight-hour day movement.
To refresh their memory and for the
benefit of the voters generally, it
would not be amiss to recite a chap
ter in political chicanery AS this
narrative will show, it is a case of
"hOist with their own petard,"
The legislative combine of farmers
and trade unionists had the standpat-
ters in the last legislature very un-
comfortable and they were looking for
some club to crack our joint forces
with. 1--WE have it," said they WEN
introduce a universal eight-hour bill.
The union boys will fall for it as
eight hours" is a battle cry with
them. The farmers will get sore at
the unionists, for there isn't farmer
in the state that believes he can Oper-
ate on an eight-hour basis" So Mr..
Grass of King county introduced the
bill while the gang chortled with glee.
But their mirth was short lived. The
farmers refused to fall for the bait
Make it eight hours from gate to
gate" they replied. kilograms and
letters came pouring in on the legis-
lators demanding the passage of the
bill. The gang became panic stricken.
They had to kill their own bill, which
they never proposed in good faith.
The committee reported back recon-
mending indefinite postponement and
Grass, the "eight-hour goat" sat silent
in his seat while his bill was done to
death
This story is not being related in
the columns of the standpat press. 1t
is buried along with many another
piece Of legislative trickery
What the standpatters began in
fraud the working people of the state
carried on in earnest and the Kingery
initiative bill is the outcome. Now
every organ of special privilege" in
the state is shrieking in chorus
against NO. 13' The same howl that
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drive industry from the state" All
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