The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-15
SPECIAL SESSION
BEGINS ITS WORK
Governor Allen Addresses Leg
iSIature in Behalf of indus
trial Court Bill.
PUBLIC RIGHTS CONE FIRST
Executive Praises Good Citizenship Of
Goal voIunteers-Messase Re
ceived with Cheers by soions.

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ceiVed with Cheers by Soions.
Topeka--Legislation which he said
is imperatively needed to protect the
public in the present period of social
and Industrial unrest was outlined in
his message before the Kansas 1egisla-
ture by Governor Allen. The COVER
nor appeared personally before the
joint session of the houses of the spe-
cial session, which convened at 2
o'clock.
Pointing to the recent coal strike as
bitter lesson of the need Of an indus
trial relations court, the governor
said:
To-day all over this land there are
men who demand that such govern
ment as Lincoln loved should be de-
stroyed, and who would rear in its
place a government by intimidation
and violence. This hour gives its own
terrible prophecy Of danger. It is Of
the utmost importance that we should
Waken to the fact that the battle is
not alone between employer and en-
ployee. 1t is between government and
those class minded organizations
which seek to supp1ant it.
81 have confidence that Kansas, st
least, will defend the liberty which
the soldiers of three generations have
saved for US, and that government ty
intimidation will not be permitted
within her borders"
The governor pointed out the ad-
Vantages to be expected from the pro-
posed new laws, as follows:
1. To make strikes, lockouts, boy
colts and blacklists unnecessary and
impossible, by giving labor as well as
capital an able and just tribunal in
which to litigate all controversies.
2. To insure to the people Of this
state, at all times, an adequate sup
ply OF those products which are abso-
lutely necessary to the sustaining Of
the life of civilized peoples.
8. That by stabilizing production of
these necessaries we will also, to a
great extent, stabilize the price to the
producer as well as the consumer
4. That we will insure to labor
steadier employment at fairer wage,
under better working conditions.
5. That we will prevent the colos-
sal economic waste which always at
tends industrial disturbances.
6. That we will make the law re-
spected and discourage and ultimately
abolish intimidation and violence as a
means for the settlement of industrial
disputes.
Referring to the coal strike, which
prompted his call for the session Of
the legislature, the governor contin-
ned:
"An extraordinary need for addition
al legislation was revealed during the
last two months by a most daring at
tempt to override government and
make the public the helpless victim
OF q fuel famine.
with a heartlessness that has no
parallel in the history of the indus
trial quarrel the public was told that,
while the controversy over a wage
labor, it could freeze.
Both parties to the quarrel had
supplied themselves with sufficient
coal to keep themselves from freezing.
'The attitude to the public was OF
that callous Indifference which has
Become familiar to the public.
"If the situation had gone on two
weeks without relief actual death
would have accompanied the fuel
famine"
He pointed out as an illustration of
t-the baleful determination of the min
ers' officials that no relief should be
granted the public during the quarrel"
the case Of a hospital at Pittsburg
1.-The principal hospital of that town,
located in the very heart of the coal
district" 1t was without coal. Two
union miners who attempted to oper-
ate strip pit for the sole purpose of
supplying the hospital, were warned
to quit" Appeals to the union Off
Gals that death would ensue to the
helpless sick in the hospital, the gov
ernor said, did not alter the union
officials order that mot a pound OF
coal should be produced to relieve
even a poignant demand of that CHAR
acter." Coal was furnished the hos
pital by the state
The state receivership of mines, the
call for volunteer coal diggers. OF
which he said ten thousands respond
ed. while one thousand were sent to
the mines; the sending OF the Kansas
national guards to the coal field with
the volunteer miners; their struggle
Vanilla From the Orchid.