The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-01

The Dispatches add that lcgisUtiv.
leaders are prepared 20 rush repeal
,hrough by Wednesday AM that time
viii h" given to the labor men for u
hearing. After the hearing the tiov-
,rnor will sisn the repeal and the whole
thing viii not take more than ten days
l'n,on men here say that they will
nrht the repeal With all their strength
the same degree OF strength that caused
the passage OF the Law.
I'VE have notified all the employ ment
% ugeucies. including the Municipal En-
ployment Bureau, that We VIII hire all
the suitable men they send US. said
Mr.. Crane yesterday AS Walter l.
Sears. head OF the Municipal Employ
meut bureau. said the other day he
could lc, MS 5000 men in three days
We are going to give him "A chance TO
make good.
"Iut we doubt strongly that he can.
IN the first place Americans won't do
the work required they won't walk
around in muck eight hours n day they
think IL II beneath them. Most OF
the mon who will be sent to W. will be
physically unable To do the work, we
think
want the Jobs they can have them
Let them report at any Of the offices at
~ VI with their citizenship papers
and a pick or shovel viii he handed
to them at once. But | don't imagine
that residents of the Hotel de Gink
will get up So early.
"lf the men We're born here they Will
have To produce birth certificates. OF
course it is a serious position for tho
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the law, they might break our con-
tracts. The rate for labor is 20 cents
An hour and working day * eight
hours
Although the situation is serious We
don't think the -ubways will he held
up Even If we have to put more men
20 work than We had figured on we will
do It,
Queens ana The Bronx are not in
such bad shape, as most OF the transit
extension work being done there is ele-
waited ana the workers are skilled men.
members of the Structural Ironworkers
Union. and are natives The trouble
chiefly lies in Manhattan and Brooklyn
where a great deal Of eNcavating IL
being done by common laborers.
Not Due to Labor Trouble.
Mr.. crane wanted TO have 1t MAIDS
plain that the present situation /. not
the outcome of labor troubles He said
that the contractors are friendly with
All IN" unions and that the best proof
that the unions didn't want the present
law PM into operation was the fact
that 80 per cent of the men VINO are
discharged are union mon
Gov Whitman was quoted Yesterday
as saying that within ten davs the law
viii be repealed because of this tha
general executive board OF tho Central
Federated Union has called Il meeting
FOR tonight at which Il committee OF
delegates VIII be appointed to go to
Albany and oppose the repeat,
Ernest Boh.n, secretary Of the e. +. L.
said last night:
THE men thrown out OF work are
mostly Italians. New York WORKING
men cannot I've on the wages accented
by the foreign workers"
Mr.. Crane said that the unemployment
situation In New YORK VIII I've greatly
aggravated by the present situation.
THE news that We have 70 discharge
10000 workers has gone all through the
country h" said. "and a. IA result many
thousands of uncmploye al will pour into
the city, 10 add To- the present distress" :"
apply 4" 4. =. supreme Court.
Former Lieut.. t.-,ioN, Thomas T.. Com
way, Edward + Grout and George :
Coleman, chief counsel for the Pubic
Service Commission, went to Washing
ton Yesterday afternoon 10 see whu, re-
lief the United states Supreme Court
could afford Mr.. Coleman and NJ.
Grout were attorneys In the cases
hrou-ht 10 test the law, the former scrv-
ing In the criminal case and the latter
iu the civil case.
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