The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
CIRCULARS PLEDGE
 ALL LCAND|DATESON
 LABOR LEGISLATION
Pamphlets Being Circulated Set Out Laws Which Laboring Men
 Want

Candidates for the legislature and ali a series of proposed laws which have
 for their object the betterment of the , laboring mans condition The proposed laws include workmans compensation act, an anti injunction act, anti-convict leasing act and reform of the election laws.
 Drafts of these proposed laws have
 been printed in pamphlet form for pres
 entation to the candidates, and the of- ficers of the federation state that every
 candidate will be requested to pledge himself to the support of such measures in the mex. legislature, if elected. The pamphlet was prepared by the following officials of the federation: w. l.. Harri- son, president; L. Bowen, secretary-treas-
 urer; J. A. Lipscomb, H. A. Litton and John Nj. Clark.
 The most important of these laws in the view of the officials of the federal tion, is that relating to injunctions 1t provides that it shall not be unlawfui for working men and women to organize themselves into, or carry on labor unions for the purpose of lessening the hours of labor or increasing the wages or better
 ing the conditions of the members of the organization; that no restraining or der or injunction shall be granted in any case involving or growing out of. a dis pute concerning terms or conditions ot employment. unless necessary to prevent lrreparable injury to property right, foi which injury there is no adequate rem edy at law, and then only when the property right is described in writing and sworn to by the applicant, or his agent, or attorney; that no injunction shall prohibit any person or persons, whether singly or in concert, from ter minating any relation of employment, or from eeaSing to perform any work or labor, or from recommending or advis- ing others to do so, or from attending at any place where persons may law fully be for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information, or from per- suading any other person to work or abstain from working; declaring that human labor is not a commodity or article of commerce; and that no per- son shall be indicted, prosecuted, or tried in any court of this state for entering into or carrying on any arrangement, agreement or combination between them selves made with a view of lessening the number of hours of labor or increas- ing wages or bettering the condition of working men, or for any act done in pursuance thereof, unless such act is in itself forbidden by law if done by a single individual
 The workmen's compensation law, they recommend, should be modelled after that of Ohio, which is followed in many other states They a iSG Gi0 n of three members to administer it; want the fund derived from assessment ,f premiums against employers who shall come under it, and out of which con- pensation to injured employees shall be paid; that such compensation be com pulsory, and that the compensation be based upon not less than two-thirds of the earning capacity of the injured in- dividual, with no maximum. and that the minimum be high enough to ade- quately compensate all classes amenable to the law.
 Declaring that the convict leasing sys- tenn is unjust and iniqutous, they insist that convicts be taken out of the mines and that the penal institutions be so con- ducted that they will elevate the con victed person and cure him of the ten dency to crime.
 They want the election laws changed so that registration of voters may be had every six months. or at least once in every year.