Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-25
LABOR LEADERS AND EMPLOY
ERS LAYING PLANS FCE CON-
TEST IN LEGISLATURE.
ANTI.lNJuNcTioN BILL
is, BONE OF CONTENTION
National Organization Sends Repre-
4 sentative to Des Mountaineering
For Similar Law in All States
Speaker Pitt Offers New Idea in Re-
visng Code and State Jobs.
,pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des. Moines, Jan. 25.-Union labor
leaders and employers are strengthen
ing their forces in the strenuous fight
which is brewing in the Iowa leSls-
lature over the anti injunction meas
ure which labor forces are urging for
passage. An organization OF business
men in Des Moines which the union
forces characterize as a secret orSanl-
cation is sending out literature against
the measure. They declare that it Will
never hold in the courts even If it IS
passed.
I Grant Hamilton, of Washington, ID.
c., chairman of the legislative COM
mittee of the American Federation OF
Labor, will explain the measure be-
fore a joint meeting of the senate and
house judiciary committees to be held
here Friday. The American Fedora
ton of Labor is working for this bill
in all of the states. The representa-
tives are supplied with facts and arsu-
ments to sustain their views.
1t is pointed out that this union
labor measure will not take away the
Injunction entirely but will permit us
use only to prevent the destruction OF
property. Otherwise they hold that
it is an Injustice to restrain workers
from organizing and working to pro-
tect their own interests as wage earn
ers.
The celebrated Danbury hatters case
Of Danbury, Conn.,, is cited as an eA-
ample of the effects of enforcing M
functions against labor organizations.
The laboring men say that TINS cost
hundreds of workers their homes ana
it cost labor organizations altogether
about 100000 before the case was
finally disposed Of.
Hamilton won fame among the LABOR
unions for his conduct Of the unions
side of the fight in Colorado during the
bad labor conditions there a rev
wears ago. He comes originally from
Denver. He has also been in dig
labor fights in several of the other
states. -.
Speaker Pitt Warns.
With various bills being introduced
into the house and senate relative 10
code revision and to the consolidation
Of state offices. the danger Of not
getting anywhere by what he terms
patchwork revision was pointed OUT
by Speaker M. B. Pitt in an interVle"
today. He declares that II this les1s-
lature undertakes to revise the present
statutes by means Of various Oils 'he
state will be worse off at the emu OIL
the session than it is now
1.-THE revision of the code should oe
done by a committee OF three Win Tue
governor a fourth member by virtue OF
his office" declared the speaker. Ihe
bill should provide that the committee
should have the advice and assistance
of the members Of the supreme court.
'In addition a committee should be
appointed to study the state ana
county governments and determine
where there is overlapping Of duties OF
either departments or officials.
1.-The present session should have an
adjourned session to return at the call
of the governor when these committees
have completed their tasks. This SEES
sion should be held without additional
expense to the state. The reports OF
the committees could then be acted
upon.
This matter of code revision is a
big question and must he done by the
most competent men in this kind of
work that it is possible to find. Other
wise any code revision will be. worse
than none at all. 1t will be false
economy to attempt to patch up the
code with such measures as we might
introduce into the legislature without
having the queetion studied out by ex-
pertS
'The same ic true as to the con-
solidation of sta.e offices or of changes
in county government. If there is an
overlapping of duties or of depart
ments it should be studied out and
then acted on in the light of all Of the
facts"
Prohibitory Amendment Delayed.
Progress of the profibitory amend
ment toward submission to the voters
has been checked by order OF Cover
nor Harding because of possible err
ror in the passage of the resolution
submitting the amendment by the sem
ate.
The resolution was to have been
taken up by the house for passage as
special order Of business at lo:So
o'clock this morning.
1t will not be taken up at that time,
however, unless Governor Harding,
who was in Sioux City yesterday, de-
cides that ther is no danger Of in
validating the measure by it's passage
at once.
Representative Roberts. of Ringgold,
who is the floor leader for the meas
'ure in the house, will not ask for a
postponement of consideration this
morning, he said last night, until the
governor decides what should be the
next move.
The flaw feared in the handling OF
the amendment before legislature 50
far is due to the fact that the senate
in passing the resolution passed eX-
actly the same measure as was passed