Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-25
BEIDLEMAN AND LABOR

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fourteen years had occasion to go to
Harrisburg for legislative redress or
relief for working men, women or
children, there was one man whom
labor always could rely upon as a
| friend.
That one man is Senator Edward
E. Beidleman, of Dauphin county.
From the day Senator Beidleman
was first elected as a member of the
House of Representatives in 1904, he
has worked increasingly in the inter-
est of labor.
In his first session, the legislative
session of 1905, Senator Beidleman
introduced bill regulating the en-
ployment of women and children in
manufacturing establishments and
fixing minimum age for child la
Dor.
This was the beginning of Senator
Beidleman's long, consistent and un-
deviating record as a lawmaker for
labor.
Any workingman in Pennsylvania
may readily learn to what extent
Senator Beidleman has been his
friend during the last fourteen years.
He can learn the facts from any Of
fetal of any labor organization any,
where in the state or from any mem
Harrisburg during the last fourteen
years for the purpose of improving
the working conditions of Pennsy1-
vania labor
All of them, every representative
of labor. every pleader that labor
ever sent to Harrisburg for redress
of relief can testify to the same fact
that all of them at all times found
Senator Beidleman ready. willing
and anxious to serve labor and Sc
cure for it any legislation it wanted.
1t was so when labor opposed con-
| tract prison labor. Senator Beidle-
man introduced a bill to stop it.
1t was so every time the mine
workers of the state sought legisla-
| tive protection for their hazardous
| trade. Senator Beidleman took up
one miners grievance after another
and introduced legislative bills for
the relief of the miners.
1t was so when the electric railway
| employees of the state sought relief
| from their exposure to wind and
weather. They petitioned the rail-
way corporations in vain for proper
protection against exposure. Senator
| Beidleman prepared bill compelling
car platforms and the trolley car
crews then were protected.
1t was so when the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen wanted to
compel the railroads to pay them
semi-monthly instead of monthly.
One of Senator Beidleman's many
labor bills fixed 1t.
1t was so when the Brotherhood
| of Railroad Trainmen wanted an en-
ployers' liability bill for their pro-
lection. Senator Beidleman prompt
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quired liability bill.
1t was so when the combined rail-
/ road brotherhoods wanted a full
crew law. Senator Beidleman pre-
pared the full crew bill and saw to
1 it that it became Law.
The labor record of Senator Beidle-
man is almost endless. When he was
elected to the Senate in 1912, it made
no difference in his labor attitude.
| He was as active in the interests of
labor in the Senate as he had been
in the House. When he was elected
president pro tempore of the Senate
! in 1915, he remained as loyal to la
Dor in the presidents chair as he
had been on the floor of the Senate.
! His loyalty to labor is, indeed, the
outstanding feature of Senator Bel
| dleman's record as a state lawmaker
| during the last fourteen years.
Now labor has an opportunity to
prove its loyalty to Senator Beidle-
man.
In the Republican primaries this
year, Senator Beidleman will be a
candidate for the nomination of
Lieutenant Governor.
He will pre-eminently be labor's
! candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
| His long and honorable legislative
career has branded him as a friend
, and champion of labor.
/ If he wins or he loses, he wins
or loses as the champion of labor
and no champion of labor must lose.
4 Labor owes it not only to it's Leg
! islative champion but far more to
itself to demonstrate 1t conclusively
by an overwhelming majority in the
Republican primaries for Edward E.
| Beidleman that no champion of la
| Dor can lose.
4 The call is out, the challenge to
! labor's loyalty to it's champion is
| there. From the mills and tho mines,
from the two-story homes and the
steel mills, from the railroad shops
and the brickyards, from tho
wharves and from the coke ovens.
! The farms and the cities. labor must
pour out on the day of the Repub-
lican primaries and flood the ballot
boxes with loyal 10 Dor votes for la
hor's. loyal champion, Edward Z.
!Beidleman for lieutenant Governor.
--From the Progressive Labor World.