The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-05-28
LABOR ASKS MORE
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In labor Disputes. aAd the otAse -,
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ssotaatves. II these attempts sueess1
cd tAs bills srs made - drastic -
labor woaA IKE to have them. anA u
the senate fails to eliminate the ~
Visions. It seems to b generally ~
nsvsd that President Wilson will intsr.
poss his veto.
The two provisions do not 20 nearly
- far - labor would Hike to have them
60. For years the labor leaders have
traed b secure the passage OF Q bnl
which would exempt the unions fro0
the operations OF the Sherman anti
trust law. II will bs remembered that
President Taft vetoed . bill which
cootained . provision forbidding the
expenditure Of certain government
monies TO pay tho charges for the
prosecution Of labor unions and farmer
organizations under the antitrust law.
Mr.. Wilson signed . similar bill. but
did It under protest.
lsbss Interests Want Mses.
II was believed that In the antitrust
bill which the Democrats were y
prepare there would be . specific pro
vision exempting labor unions and pos
sibly farmer organizations from prose
cution under the antitrust Law. The
president's warning given last spring
seems. however. to have had its effect,
10 the house judiciary committee in
preparing the antitrust bill gave labor
only . part Of what 1t wanted. The
labor interests thought 1t only . small
part, for they hold that the Limitation
Of the power Of federal courts to grant
injunctions in labor troubles and the
jury trials for contempt do not consti-
tuto anything like such . program a.
the workingmen wish to have put into
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Al has been said. these Clayton anti.
Injunction and contempt bills are q
part Of the general antitrust legisla,
ton. A delegation Of representatives
In congress visited the president in an
endeavor to persuade him to urge Mr.
Clayton and bis colleagues Of the
house judiciary committee to incorpo.
rate more radical provisions in the bill
in reference to injunctions. They
urged that actual exemption should be
given to labor unions from the applica.
ton Of the Sherman law. There ID
good authority to say that Mr.. Wilson
refused point blank to do what the rep.
resentatives urged and 1t IL limited that
he declared he would veto any bill
containing . provision exempting the
unions from prosecution under the
Sherman law II 1t should come to him
in . form written any moro strongly
than the provision ~ II now stands in
the Clayton bill.
Civilian for Alaska Work.
All the preliminary work Of the sur.
vey Of the Alaskan railroad. which is
to be constructed by the government.
10 to be done by q civilian engineer.
William C. Edes. assisted BY . cav
airy ofncer Of the United States army.
Lieut.. Frederick Mears. The build
ing Of the Panama canal nrst was put
into the hands Of the civilians, but
aftefward It became necessary to
transfer the work to the engineer
corps Of the army. Washington 10
asking why q civilian engineer has
been detailed to the Alaska work.
Secretary Of the Interior Lane rec
ommended tho appointment Of an en-
sineer from civilian life. and also rec
commended that the young cavalry on
osr. Mears. should be named ~ an as
sistant to the chief engineer. Both
Of the appointments were made by
the PRECEDENT. and then there was a
curious happening. Lieutenant Mears
called on Secretary of War Garrison
to pay his respects and to report his
departure for duty.
We'll. where arc you going?
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