Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-25
|sAS LABOR IS
 IlDY TO SUBMIT { COURT TO TRIAL
Oppose Allen, However, As Result of the
 Law

eka, Kan, Feb. 24.-Kansas la
 going to give the new court
 Hustrial relations a fair trial.
 oht the enactment of the law
 khout the special session of
 cislature and it has served mo-
 mon Gov. Henry Allen, who
 the bill, that he can expect
 tive opposition of all union la
 members in his campaign for
 ction as governor.
 far there have been seven
 complaints relating to wages
 onditions of labor in essential
 ries filed with the netw court
 bne union not directly under
 ourt has asked how it might
 ht its troubles to the court for
 ication. The coal miners and
 bur railroad brotherhoods were
 most active opponents of the
 hre and the governor had to
 a special message to the legis-
 telling of the activities of
 railroad brotherhoods in their
 Is to defeat the law. The gov
 called the special session and Ed out the plans for the new
 while he was engaged in a red
 crap with the miners.
 is a peculiar fact that four of
 first seven complaints should
 from the miners and that one
 e other three should come from armen's union, making five com ts coming from the two union bizations which made the most us fight against the bill and
 spent several thousand dollars
 rrying on this fight. The first klaint to appear before the
 came from the miners. AL der Howatt, president of Dis
 IA, announced that the miners q move out of the state and the kas coal fields would be left #because the miners did not like law. Vet three of the local un- under his Jurisdiction filed e of the complaints now under liberation by the court and an |r union in the district organi- bn but in a different coal field, tho fourth.
 |rst Complaint from Pittsburg. be first complaints came from sburg, the headquarters of the ers. It related to the closing n of part of the entries in the g operated by the Kansas Coal throwing about 60 men out of k. The closing down came in di- violation, of the law, which pro- ts the closing down of indus without the consent of the h. rial court. The second com nt was brought against the Car Coal Co.,, operating a mine near ny. It was charged with clos,
 kn part of the entries in its ?. The third complaint came Scammon and related to the Ire of a company there to pay full IA percent increase in ss under the general agreement which the big mine strike Wae ed. The fourth complaint came the miners of the Osagc coun- Sesd, a small field in which jA35O miners are regularly em- " The miners are all out of and they assert they have
 unable to obtain information o why the mines are closed le carmen's union at Pittsburg. esenting the car repair men ir Kansas City Southern shop 3, filed the fifth complaint, be- the company had laid off 30 repair men from the shops when repair work is greatly needed where. It is regarded as rath- oubtful if the new court can dc hing for the carmen until after railroads are released from gov lent control.
 Meatcutters FiIe Protest.
 e Meatcutters' Union of Kansas Kan, filed complaint against Cudahy Packing Co.,, which laid considerable number of butch Tn its killing rooms. The com replied that this was done be- there was not sufficient ami available to keep all the mer owed and the company also had stocks of meats in. it's ware es.
 e electrical workers employed ne Topeka Edison Co. asked the to make new wage adjust for them. The Edison compa- applies Topeka and Oakland and rbs with light and power and 'uslness district of Topeka with
 The electrical workmen are lg for an increase of $1.2O a day. e Industrial court has already lged to go into the mining dis early next mouth for a com
 lnvestigation of the condition nas Held. The entire member or the court, with it's engineers special investigators, will spend ek or more in the field, examin- the mines, working conditions. 5 living conditions and wages le miners throughout the field, IS expected to issue an order
 VIII make some material ges Tn the methods of operation ne coal mines and which will the miners to obtain steadier oyment, if not higher wages are being paid at the present