The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
LEFT WINGERS
FOR PROGRESS
LABOR meet
Quesse, JanitOrs' Head,
TabOOS Discussion
tspeeIaI to The pany worksrl

X PEORIA, ILL.,, Sept. 9.-The
left wing delegates to the state
convention of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of Labor are responsible
for the fight that is being waged
here for progressive trade union
policies against the opposition
of the reactionary labor leaders.
The great majority of the re-
solutions printed for use at the
convention were introduced by
the left wing locals of the Min
ers' Union. Y
Seek JobIess Insurance.
Dan Thomas, delegate from the
O'Fallon Miners Local, brought in a
resolution seeking law for unemploy-
ment insurance and urging state and
national governments to hire the I'M
employed for public works at trade
union wages.
Other resolutions introduced called
for: The six-hour day, demanding the
formation of a state labor party, to be
formed under the auspices of the State
Federation of Labor; endorsing Len
Small for governor; endorsing LaFol-
lette for U. S. President.
Gaseous ouesse Fumes.
Delegate Quesse Of the Flat Janitors'
Union of Chicago, qualified as an ex-
pert on noxious gases when he sue
eeeded in defeating a ruling of the
committee on rules, that the in
PRODUCER of a resolution be permitted
to speak after motion to close debate.
This rule gives delegates the OPP
portunity to inject poison into the
convention and is dangerous and un-
constitutional" declared Quesse. He
forget to say that it was ''irreIevent.
incompetent, immaterial and had moth
ing to do with the case" as the law
yers put it, where hard up for an
objection. William Near of the
Chauffeur's Union supported the fiat
janitor chief.
Delegate Suggests Fumigation.
Delegate Henry Corbishley of the
Ziegler miners, said: IF the delegates
are afraid of being poisoned perhaps
we ought to fumigate the place"
Delegate Corbishley explained that
it was not poison in the atmosphere
some Of the reactionaries feared so
much as enligntment in the heads of
the rank and file
Fight oceupationaI Diseases.
In a report presented by the com
mittee on occupational diseases, the
trade union movement was urged to
fight for workers compensation In &C.
cupational disease cases as well as in
accident cases. The report is in part
as follows:
with the life of our organizations
assured and with diminishing need for
pressure on wage rates, unions should
now assume militant position in Sc
curing protection for the workers
health and thru that protection the
opportunity to earn established rates
Of wages without a high degree of
hazard Of intermittent or permanent
illness in the occupation itself.
illinois Conditions Explained.
Illinois has advanced in the pre-
vention of industrial accidents and in
the compensation Of the accidentally
injured; more persons are gradually
having their health broken down by
harmful conditions Of work than there
were fifteen years ago and there has
been no improvement in provision of
benefits for those stricken.
There is just as much reason for
workmen's compensation in occupa-
tional disease cases as there is in the
case of accidents. II It is hazardous
to human lives to produce an article
of human usefulness, then the cost
of production should include the cost
OF the conservation Of health. Profit
ing by the experience Of other states.
Illinois should bring occupational dis
eases under workmen's compensa-
ton rules by amending the act to
make It apply to all personal in
juries'"
Admire Lens Technique.
A capitalist Judge, J. Harles. OF
Rock Island, addressed the delegates
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