Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-04-23
LABOR TO MAKE
MANY DEMANDS
STATE BUREAU HAS SENT CUES
TloNs TO SECRETARIES OF
LABOR UNIONS.
ALL CLASSES HEARD FROM
Labor Lobby Will Look After Lesisla-
tion and Many New Statutes Tend
Ing to Better Conditions Are
to Be introduced.

Jefferson City.-Organized tollers
in Missouri, consisting of 91.S9S men
and women who are members Of some
labor union, are as keenly interested
as capitalists, corporations. lawyers
and business men I'M each biennial
session of the general ASSEMBLY. The
day the legislature cohvenes there is
in attendance a labor legislative COM
mittee representing the state fedora
ton of labor, railroad men, telegra-
piers, the building trades councils and
other labor bodies to present meas
ure working men and women want
enacted and defeat those they oppose.
The 1894 state federation COM
mittee consists Of B. F. Lamb, repre-
senting the mafhinists of st. Louis;
Commissioner 1phn T. Fitzpatrick, bu-
reap of labor statistics; Burt E. Burn
ham, Typographical union Of st. Jo-
seph; w. l.. Willmarth, railroad teleg-
raphers, st. Bouis: J. F. Phinney, ma
chinists, Springfield; Frank Shobe, in
dustrial cou4cii, Kansas City, and ].
D. Kelley, electrical workers, Kansas
City.
Recently the bureau of labor Stats
tics sent a question schedule to each
secretary of a labor union in the state,
carrying the interrogation:
What specific state legislation
would be beneficial to your local and
membership as applying to your occu-
pation?"
OF the 500 unions in Missouri prob
ably TOO outlined legislative measures
which in their opinion would benefit
working men and women of the state,
and especially the particular trade and
calling which the answering secretary
represents.
All garment workers, ~tailors, broom
makers, harness and leather workers,
boot and shoe workers and other
trades akin to these, representing an
organized labor membership Of prob
ably 10000, insist that the present con
vict-leasing system of the state peni-
Tertiary and prison contract shops be
abolished for the reason that the
goods thus placed on the market com
pete unfairly with those made by fair
workers.
Engineers, ~brakemen, switchmen,
conductors and other railroad EN-
ployes ask that the voters of the state,
1at the general election next fall, ap-
prove the 'full crew bill, which was
referred to the people by the railroads
of the state under the initiative and
referendum constitutional amendment,
Bookbinders, printers, bindery won
en-, pressmen and others engaged in
the occupation Of printing and pub.
fishing ask that a law be enacted max
ing it compulsory for text books of all
public schools of the state to carry
the union label.
An e%ight-hour working day is asked
for by car workers, stationary engi
neers, blacksmiths, bill posters, rail
way firemen and engineers, boiler
makers and helpers, core makers
cooks, foundry employees, garment
workers, bod carriers, Industrial
Workers of the World, metal workers
marble workes, machinists, plate
printers, painters and decorators, rail
road switchmen, t~ailors, hotel and res
taurant workers, carpenters, retail
lsalesmen and three or four other occu
pations. Clerks and statesmen all owe
the state ask that Saturday be made
a legal half holiday.
The Women's Trade Union league
with branches in st. Louis and Kansas
City, made up of about $500 womel
and $50 allies, call for more womel
factory and inspectors and the rigi'
enforcement of all laws regulating
hours and other conditions unde
which women work and children la
Dor. A minimum wage law for WON
EN- similar to that Of Oregon, whicl
places the lowest weekly compensa
Aion at $40, is suggested.