Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
CARPENTERS PRAISE
GOV. BRUMBAUGH
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ness and business-lilSe methods. He
outlined the newest phases of the
Workmen's Compensation law, telling
of proposals for the benefit of the
working man before the Legislature.
DR.. Jackson discussed the proposed
law to create building inspector, with
headquarters in Harrisburg and
branches in the smaller towns, the
branches to be headed by local COM
mittees, members of which will be
practical men. DR.. Jackson concluded
his remarks with brief outline of the
vocational diseases bill. which is be-
ing thoroughly investigated for pro-
posal. This bill, he stated, is for the
protection of workingmen who may
have contracted q permanent disease
through their employment.
The Resolution Committee submit
ted resolutions, the most important of
which paid high tribute to Governor
Martin G.. Brumbaugh. a resolution
recommending that the present card
carried by union carpenters in the
State of Pennsylvania be discarded and
tEat a universal card be issued caused
considerable comment. Parts of the
resolution conflicted with the general
state constitution and after a lengthy
and heated discussion it was referred
to the committee for revision.
The convention adjourned at 12
o'clock, to convene this afternoon,
when officers will be elected and a
meeting place selected for next year.
The Resolutions
The resolutions paying tribute to the
Governor is as follows:
Whereas, His EXcellency. Martin G..
Brumbaugh, Governor of Pennsylva-
MIA, has proved by his official conduct
and every act and utterance, to be the
best friend that the working men,
women and children of this State have
ever had in public office. At no time
has he faltered in his efforts to better
the conditions of all the workers of
this State and at the same time do
Justice to the employer. This has been
amply demonstrated by the passage,
largely through his personal efforts, of
the best Child Labor Law which is on
the statute books of any State in the
and the WorRmen's Compen-
sation Act which has brought splendid
results to the injured workers of this
State and their dependents, and his
veto of the Full Crew Repeater in the
face of the organized opposition of
some of the big interests of the State,
Whereas, Governor Brumbaugh's
devotion to the best inter-
ests of the great masses of the work
ing men, women and children of this
State has resulted in a campaign of
calumny, inspired by discredited po-
litical leaders, who were unable to
keep their promises to deliver him to
some selfish employers; be it
Resolved. That we, the Pennsylva-
MIA State Council of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
representing $4,000 workers in this
State, and their families. do hereby
express our unbounded confidence in
Brumbaugh. We know him
to be man of the highest official, po-
litical and personal integrity; we stand
Loyalty by him and declare that at no
time in its history has this State had
q Governor who has had the force of
the far-seeing vision, and
the forceful energy to perfect such n
splendid program of legislation for the
workers of this State. All this has
been done with full pustice to en-
ployers.
Resolved, That we urge upon ev-
cry worker of this State and every
body of organized labor to rally to
the support of the Governor at this
time, and to make it plain to his po-
litical enemies and detractors that the
wage-earners of this State as a body.
and that all right-thinking men and
women of this State are standing back
of him and will not countenance any
further efforts to belittle or besmirch
him.
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be sent to Governor Brum-
baugh and to the newspapers of tie
State for general publication.
Daniel A. Post, president State
Council of Carpenters, Wilkes-Barre;
Thomas Hickey, president, Phila-
delphia; d. S. Leighty, vice-president,
Beaver, Pa; C. A. wuenschil, vice.
president, Erie; w. e. Sanders, vice.
president, Wyoming; James A. Ryan,
secretary Philadelphia.
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