The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-14


senate and exposei by the Iowa
Homestead, a courageous, progressive
farm paper. The members OF the
house were frightened and requested.
by a. vote OF 70 to 2S, that the bill
be returned from the senate, where
& was being considered. The sem
ate, controlled by reactionar:es, re-.
fused to comply with this demand
and the objectionable bill was passed.
Vetoed Bad Bills.
Governor Nate Kendall, who was
relied upon to do what the interests
wanted. promptly vetoed the meas.
ure, which was a hard blow to the
rcactionaries. He was told that he
was digging his political grave, but
was disturbed not a bit, calmly re-
marking that it would be an illus
trious grave.
The reverse Of this picture. as pre-
sented by Pennsylvania and New
York, is not SO pleasant.
More than dozen progressive
measures have been removed from
the law books of Pennsylvania.
which has practically reverted to the
condition that obtained 25 years ag>.
Every law providing for nonpartisan
elections has been repealed and the
judiciary and municipal offices have
returned to the political pie counter.
A quarter of a century ago, when
legal textbooks charged that the
Pennsylvania railroad Operated the
courts of that state as successfully
as it operated it's own railroad trains,'
movement began for the reform
of the judiciary, and before it wts
successful the dominant political mA-
chine suffered two crushing defeats
1t required more than 20 years 20
secure reform election laws, and tn ey
have disappeared in session last
ing less than 100 days.
Full Crew Law Repealed.
The workers sustained their most
serious reverse. when the full-crew
bill was repealed, depriving 1900 men
Of employment and removing safe
guards for the travelling public. 1t
will undoubtedly lie signed by Gov
ernor Sproul. This leaves this ques-
tion exactly where it was 16 years
ago, when the first attempt to Sc
cure its enactment failed. After one
Of those spasms Of reform for which
of 1911 approved the workers pro-
posal Two succeeding legislatures re-
pealed it, but each timo a governor
saved 1t with a veto. =
AS was to be expected Congress-
man w. J. Burke of Pennsylvania,
made a vigorous protest against the
repeal of the full crew law AS a
member of the Pennsylv mia legisla-
ture, he was largely instrumental in
securing its enactment, and has since
opposed every atte lpt to get it off
the law books.
The New York, legislature did not
pay more attention to the demands
or labor than it did to those of the
advocates Of so-called welfare bills.
One OF the noticeable features of the
session, in fact, was that the leaders
turned deaf ears to nearly everything
laoorltes had to sa.-, a rather novel
utuatlon for organized labor, which
Tor some years has had some influ-
'once in New York affairs. This time
Hovernor Miller was in complete con-
rol, Of the situation.
New York's Anti-Labor Measures
Among the bills passed by the leg
stature, in spite Of the opposition
Of labor, were the following:
\ Amendments to the labor. law to
permit women to be employed at
metal polishing; allowing women TO
work all night in printing plants; au-
1thorizing the payment. of wages BY
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