The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-05-30
UNIONS NOT TRUSTS;
PARTY KEEPS PLEDGE
Continued from Poo [

In Wnlcn no 0oCldT0O 6QuaI9lyss 1OT
labor's amendments to the Clayton
antitrust bill, and predicted the pas
sage Of these amendments by both
houses. He said In part:
1.-THE gentleman from Massachu-
sets says, that we have taken q bill
from the house calendar and put it
upon the union calendar, and that
we have done it in order to prevent
. record vote on certain amendments.
LET me warn the gentleman that
until he becomes more friendly to
the labor Organizations Of this coufl-
try we can not profit by any advice
from him. ..- /.@
''Now, Mr.. Speaker, let me advise
him that there will be an amendment
In plain and clear-cut English lang
uage exempting directly and specifi-
cally labor organizations and far
mers' organizations from the provi-
sions Of the antitrust law. We have
mittee of the Whole and in the House
of Representatives as we'll. So he
need not be alarmed.
No Need To Worry.
''He need not be- distressed about
this matter. Every members vote
will be understood in the committee
Of the whole and in the house after
the bill is reported there, and he will
find that there will be no friend Of
labor tagging on this side of the
House, and we will again write into
the law, as we have done several
times heretofore, a provision exempt
Ing those organizations from the pro-
visions of the antitrust law, as in
tended when it was passed in 1890.
IF you are so solicitious about
this you ought to get on the side
of these gentlemen and help them put
the amendment on. You need not
presuppose the Democrats are cow
ards on this question. And I do not
suppose the members on that side are
towards, because I expect most Of
them to vote against labor, as you
have done heretofore. For more than
twenty years the labor organizations
OF this country stood before the door
OF this house and before the Speak
er's room and urged the passage Of
such legislation as contained in the
Clayton antitrust measure.
Reads Him the Record.
Ou dHu yVuT party SpuTneu LQelE
request. You denied them the right
to be heard on the floor of this house.
But no. sooner had the Democracy
gone into power in the House of Rep
resentatives than we passed those
bills which had been suppressed by
the distinguished former Speaker, Mr..
Cannon, and his official regime that
advised co-operated with him on
these matters.
They are in this bill, and they
are going to remain there, and we
are going to vote for them. and in
tend to. give the labor: organizations
and the people Of this country the
laws they have been clamoring for
during nearly a quarter of century.
And the program is going through
the Senate, and the bills will go to the
President. and the Executive that the
Democratic voters Of this country put
IA power sYill give relief to the people,.
,---.s Labor Must Be Protected. T.,
"Mr. Speaker, this. is an important
occasion Today we are taking up for
consideration the most significant po-
litical problems pending before this
country These three bills contain
SoiAe tAAASs IlaI Will Or1nS greater re-
lief to the people of this country than
any measure that has been considered
since have been a member of this
body. It means that hereafter we shall
not negotiate with big business vio-
lating the law, but will set the limits
on big business and tell them how
far they shall 60. We will pass
! statutes requiring them to salute the
law. We are going forward. We are
going to pass the bills, and they will
pass the Senate before this summer
has passed. and the President will
put his approval upon them. We will
bring prosperity to this country. we
shall do the things that ought to
! have been done twenty five years ago,
and would have been done If the old
stand-pat Republican party had not