El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-26
Speech On Organized Labor

san Angelo Standard May Is. 1916.
Laws should be passed 10 protect all
I laborers i'm health, comfort safety and
I happiness" said judge Thomas J. Blan-
/ ton, of Abilene when he spoke at the
! court house in san Angelo Wednesday
I night This was the keynote OF the ad-
/ dress on Organized Labor
Judge Blanton stated that he was n
/ sympathy with union labor and under
! took TO show flaws in the employees
/ compensation law. which should be
J remedied by amendments
Unions NecesSnry.
( The day is not far distant when every
: laborer VIII belong to some OrEauiza-
I ton Capital is thoroughly organized.
I Every successful business is thoroughly
organized For protection labor has
I been forced to organize Labor has
profited by the bundle of sticks lesson.
! United we stand. divided We fall" and
Organization has benefited every de-
! partment OF labor.
Organized labor has brought about
I the passage OF many good laws. iuclud-
/ ing the 54-hOur law. Tho employees
I compensation act was designed to bene-
fit labor. but because OF corporate
amendments forced into it. il gives only
half a loaf and should be amended and
perfected some Of its defects are as
follows:
ID No Compensation whatever is al
lowed for the first weeks disability
% No compensation is allowed for
physical suffering. go No COmpensa-
ton is allowed for facial or bodily dis
figurement. unless there is loss OF
eye. fingers. hand. toes or foot. 90 The
compensation is wholly Inadequate.
Gives Illustration.
To illustrate: II some deserving
laundress should be horribly scalded
through the negligence of the company.
4 subscriber. and should suffer fortunes.
but at the end of five weeks was able 20
return to work. her fun damages would
be less than 800 simply because she
lost no eye, member or limb
In behalf of railroad employees. both
the fun crew bill and the employees
hospital bill killed BY lobbyists. should
have been passed by the last legislature.
The eight-hour law is not unreasonab BILE
ana ought TO be passed If it were I'M
railroads
The Burnett emmiEratio bill should
pc passed IN the interest OF American
labor, Il has been vetoed in turn bv
CleNeland' Taft and Wilson. and each
ulne congress has quit. The last con-
Sress lacked only four votes OF passing
u over the presidential veto. but quit.
snip owners, railroads and eastern
manufacturers don't want such a law.
as they grow from millionaires to NAL
ti-millionaires on the big dividends this
cheap illiterate emiErant labor pays
mem II IS their perniciOus influence
winch keeps this law from being
Laws should be passed TO protect all
iaoorers IN their health. comfort. safety
anu happiness Each labOrer by work
ing a reasonable number Of hours each Z
day should be able to earn sufficient |
money 10 support his family buy and I
pay out a home, save some for a rainy /
aay and old age, and be able to devote /
sYIle on ms time to the society and /
pleasures Of his family
am friend to every man who la 1
3oIS, ana ! hope TO bring about condi- /
lions 10 make his lot easier I carried !
- p'E counties last time. and lost quite 4
q number OF other counties f,v iref 3, /
'are Yoie--iolitical advertisement