The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-04-17
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF STATE FEDERATION 4
- OF LABOR HOLDS QUARTERLY Y &C

Special.
Harmony, enterprise and industry
marked the quarterly meeting of the
executive council Of the State Fedora
ton of Labor held last Sunday at
Union Temple, 26. Washington avenue
South, Minneapolis, and the business
before the council was disposed of
with dispatch and good judgment.
The meeting was called to order
at the time designated, and a roll
call showed that all the members Of
the council were present except Vice
Presidents Hallenberger, Red Wing;
Pereault, Duluth, and Hurst. East
Grand Forks, the last named of whom
sent a letter explaining that his alb
sence was due to illness in his family.
Officers Reports Submitted.
President Hall stated that the first
business in order was hearing reports
from the members of the council, and,
having called Vice President Walsh
to the chair, he proceeded to read his
own report for the last three months.
In this comprehensive document
President Hall reviewed fully his act
ivities during the quarter and gave
the council a lengthy account of the
progress and status of labor bills in
troduced during, the present session
of the legislature. He stated that the
only organization work the officers
had been able to carry on since the
opening of the legislative session had
been a letter campaign of education
aimed to interest the members of the
various unions themselves in building
up their organizations; that by spe-
So1 i1ryt tfo+ 1o tha
county convention of the American
Society of Equity held in Glencoe and
found the delegates to the convention
eager to hear labor's side of pending
public issues and tendencies dis
cussed; that he had attended, large
and enthusiastic meetings of union
lists and the general public at Inter-
national Falls and Winona, and that
In response to a very urgent invita-
ton he had given an exhibition Of
the child labor and label slides be-
longing to the State Federation of
Labor in Dubuque, Iowa, for the
benefit of the labor forward move
ment then in progress in that city,
all the cost of the trip and exhibit
being paid by the committee in charge
Of the movement. Mr.. Hall added
that he had received a similar invi-
tation from Springfield, ILL.,, but had
dismissed it with proposal to lend
the committee in that city the slides
without expense except the cost of
transportation both ways.
Status of Labor LEGISLATION.
In the part of his report devoted
to legislation affecting the interests
of the working people President Hall
enunl Grated IS bills in the present
session as being In this class and gave
the substance, standing and prospects
Of each. OF these the one known as
the semi-monthly payday bill is the
only one that has passed the legisla-
ture and been approved by the gov
ernor. The amendments to the work.
mems compensation law proposed by
the conference Of representatives of
the State Federation of Labor, the
employers and the state labor depart
ment called by the state labor COM
missioner for the purpose of making
suggestions 'on the subject, Mr.. Hall
stated had been agreed to by both
houses with the exception that the
house of representatives had cut the
waiting period for compensation for
injuries to begin from two weeks to
one. He explained further that the
amendment and the bill had been
sent to a conference, where the vote
was two in favor of the change and
four against 1t, but neither house had