The New York herald., 1921-12-18
Albany Sees Powerful Lob
bies Getting Ready to
Oppose Bills.
BAN ON LABOR ART CRITICS
Insurance Rates and Loans of
Various. Kinds Are to Be
Regulated.
Bpecidt Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
albany, Dee. II. (

gpecial Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
.l5any, Dec. H.
The Lockwood committees pro-
gramme, designed to prevent repeti-
ton of the evils which stifled the
building industry in New York for
several years, will be one of the big
features of the 1922 session of the
State Legislature.
1t also will provide one of the live
lest fights of the session. Even before
the measures are drawn that much is
certain. The leaders who have been
comforting regarding the programme
for the winters work in the capital
have heard rumbles which mean
trouble. Every lobby in the State is
swinging into line, ready to open the
attack on the bills, which will be de-
signed TO break monopolistic hold on
various branches of the building
trades, illicit price fixing and profit
eering and bringing all semi-public in
stitutions which handle the public's
funds under State control.
Samuel Untermyer, who as volunteer
counsel has led the Lockwood committee
through bewildering maze of grating
and illegal price fixing, is expected In
Albany before the session convepes on
January to confer with Gov. Miller and
the leaders of the two houses. Mr..
Untermyer has sent word that he is
ready TO make the fight in behalf of
the reforms he will recommend. He will
back Senator Lockwood and the COM
mittee to the limit.
MfIIer's Aid to BE Sought.
Gov. Miller's aid is to be sought on
behalf of the half dozen or more big
constructive measures which will seek
to enact into the laws of this State the
most drastic and far reaching legislation
presented in this country in dealing with
the building industry and it's numerous
allied branches. The full strength of the
Administration will be required to put
through the programme
Labor will fight all proposals for State
regulation of unions ana the labor lobby
is about the most effective in Albany.
L.obbies representing employers In the
building trades, fire and life insurance
companies. the corporations handling
workmen's compensation and every one
of score of powerful unions at which
legislation will be aimed will be in AL
bany during the winter months deter
mined to kill the Lockwood committees
bills.
THE NEW York HERALD has OBJ
tained from the leaders an outline of
the tentative bills now in the process of
formation. Not all are to be presented
at once. Probably one after another the
measures will be before the Legislature
throughout the entire session.
II the labor unions recently under Mr..
Untermyer's fire, do not agree to the
stipulations he has offered 1t Is pro-
posed to offer bill requiring that all
unions incorporate. The State would
then be able to limit the power of the
unions by placing them under the regu-
lation of a State body. BY this simple
expedient the State could require that
the unions have no bylaws not approved
by the State. Such a measure will be
presented, in all probability.
The agreement which Mr. Untermyer
has indicated he will require the unions
to accept contains a dozen or more
clauses relating to specific abuses which