The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-21
ANT|-|NJUNCT|ON
BILL DEFEATED.
|California Labor Men Lost
Big Fight in the Re
cent Legislature
BODY ANTAGONISTIC Il
TO ORGANIZED LABOR
Several Other Bills Refused Passage
and Some Favorable Laws Attacked
Did Get Improved Workmen' S Com
pensation Law and Other Measures.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21.-organ-
lied labor is greatly disappointed in the
almost completes rejection of its pro-
gram by the California legislature
which has just closed its forty third
session at Sacramento, according to
Paul Scharrenberg, secretary of the
California State Federation of Labor
and the legislative representative of that
organization.
Not only was this program of recon
struction submitted by the labor organi-
cations practically repndiated by the
legislature, but, according to this au-
thority, determined assaults were made
on the body of progressive laws enact
ed in recent years. Labor was sorely
pressed a times by reactionaries of va
rious shades, and the full days work
of the entire labor lobby often con-
, sisted in preventing the mutilation of
existing humanitarian laws saws Mr..
Seharrenberg. lit would be tedious
and useless to ennmerate the long list
of attacks upon the great progressive
enactments of the last 10 years. . HI
&C. ANoeaAiAAE was ItlilhIt anu
scarcely anything escaped in this re-
spect The Initiative and referendum.
the women $ eight hour law. the work
men $ compensation law, the housing
! laws, etc, were all subject to the as
, saults of the standpat forces which in
tested the halls Of our legislature. =
| The Anti-Injunetion bill, regarded BY
organized labor as its bill of rights.
! which was passed'by the previous legis.
lature. but vetoed by the governor, was
/ this year defeated Some of the bills
| sponsored by the labor bodies that
failed of passage were: the graduated
!, tax on land values, designed to break
up large holdings and open up the land
to settlement by small farmers; the en-
| plovment bureau bill, limiting the fees
! charged by private employment agen-
cies 70 l0 per cent of one month s paw:
the Sunday closing bill; the miners
eight -hour law; The bill providing for
| protection for Alaska cannerv workers
and out 1pfosfdf48 iffbtr afi' fhf7estfgatidh
of the San Francisco district attorney !
office.
/ Some of the measures favored by the
labor men that did pass were an m
proved workmen's compensation law;
law providing for vocational re-edu
cation and rehabilitation of workers
+ disabled in industry; an improved chile
: labor law; law limiting the hours OF
} domestic service to 10 hours a dav. oil
! 60 hours a week; better semi monthly
payday law; law establishing a per
manent state public works commission
J to provide for the extension of public
! Improvements at time of extraordnar,
5 unemployment; and an extension of tn,
state land settlement experiment, APP
propriating 100000 to carry on til,
work, and submitting to the people
proposal to issue $10,000,o00 in bond
for still further extension of the polio,
Of finding employment and rural home
for returned soldiers and sailors.
The legislature also adopted reso
!. luton indorsing the federal Seaman
= Act and calling upon the California
delegation in congress to uphold tina
law.