The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-24

members, but not to the press, the al
legislatures were marked with an an
ticipated degree of conservative ac-
tions. The net results to manufac-
turing industries, with exception OF a
few states, were most satisfactory
altho the major reason for this was
the splendidly co-ordinated opposition
to class laws presented by the officers
and members of state industrial
bodies affiliated with this council
Again the report proudly says; EN-
actment on such matters as liberal
izing' amendments to worlmen's COM
pensation insurance laws, delimiting
hours of labor and fixing minimum
wages and maximum hours for wo-
men, old age pensions, special indus
trial regulatory measures, granting
special privileges to labor unions, etc.
are conspicuously missing this year,
owing, once again, to the effective and
intelligent campaigns of opposition
conducted by the various state manu-
facturers' associations represented on
the advisory committee of this coun-
ell"
Labor Politically Weak.
Nevertheless" the council admits,
the legislative committees of organ
lied labor in the several states did
not come away entirely empty-hand-
ed. Altho their victories were mighty
few, as, for example, the passage in
New Jersey of law of doubtful con-
stitutionality, providing for jury trial
in labor dispute injunction contempt
cases, the margins of their defeats
were uncomfortably close in several
important instances, such as the indie
finitely small vote which has tempo
rarily defeated vicious anti-injunc-
ton bill in the Illinois legislature;
the narrow escape of New York in
dustries from final passage of 49,
hour weekly working law affecting
women workers.
Legislation that the council is par
ticularly satisfied which includes the
state police measures passed in Rhode
Island, Illinois and Maine and ''prac-
teal and satisfactory" workmen's
compensation insurance law which
Missouri industrialists are given Gre
dit for securing in the Missouri legis-
lature. SIS,
Lack of Speed on Job Now Felony.
Summary of the legislation state by
state shows satisfaction with Idaho
for broadening the Idaho syndicalism
act to make mere slowing down on
the job form of criminal sabotage;
qualification with California for de-
feating 35 out of 81 proposed amend
ments to the Workmen's Compensa-
ton Act, the defeat being credited to
the California Manufacturers Asso.
citation; praise for Colorado where
business interests successfully op-
posed a 4S-hour week for cement and
plaster industry workers; regulation
of hours for women and drastic
amendments to the workmen's COM
pensation law-these listed by the
council as "anti-industrial legislative"
bills.
A one-day-rest-in-sev bill before
the state legislature Of Illinois while
the report was being prepared is also
listed as an "anti-industry" measure,
a phrase frequently used by the coun-
Gil in connection with pro-labor pro-
posals.
Prison labor gets the floor in the
section on Oklahoma where the coun-
Gil shows its pleasure with the repeal
of the law compelling the labelling of
convict made products.
Victory Everywhere For Capitalist
Class.
West Virginia stood safe for the
employers, the report telling that "A
long list of class legislative proposals,
including anti-injunction, regulation
repeal of the state constabulary act,
of hours of labor of female employees,
were all defeated or lost in com
mittees."
Wisconsin's tax legislation does not
please the lobbyists, but in general,
taking state by state, they show how
business has won over the worker.
Even in Wisconsin an S-hour law was
beaten. 1t is an interesting report,
available for its members but not in
tended for the newspapers.
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