The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-12-05

RllraI Minnesota swung sharply away
from the Farmer Labor party IN the
1894 election; there is evidence that
the movement has continued ana tnae
it is today gaining new momentum. IN
the three big counties, however, the
labor vote last year pumped entnuSlaS-
ricaIly for Floyd B. Olson and the
Farmer-Labor party. Labor, thought
fuI observers believed. was Singularly
short sighted to its real, final interest.
Now, however, there is striking evil
dence that labor is joining its farmer
friends in looking askance at barren
promises and perverted performances.
Many labor leaders were alive TO the
situation even before 1884, and saw
clearly the mistake that labor was max
ing by turning against its real friends
under the Establishments OF honeyed
words and a mistaken class partisan
ship which actually took jobs away and
set back the clock of true labor pro-
gresS.
It has been a familiar Farmer-Labor
alibi that the party has had no legis-
IatiVe control and so could not produce
results. But in 1888 the Farmer-Labor
group controlled the lower House OF
the Minnesota Legislature. What was
its record? President E G. Hall OF
the Minnesota Federation Of Labor, II
his report on the legislative session
pointed out that fourteen labor bills
which passed the so-called reaction
ary" Senate failed of passage IN the
so-caIled liberal House. Here they
are listed by President Hall:
S. F. 500 and H. F. TOO, adding
definition to the term minor in thu
minimum wage law.
s F. 28s and H. F. 323, requiring
employers TO give notice to employee:
concerning certain conditions OF en-
ployment.
S. F. 621, requiring employers to GIVE
dvance notice of discharge TO employee
who have been in their service
months
s. F. 28I and H. 2. 325, relating Il
deductions from wages.
S. F. GAL and H F. ISL, relating Q
violations of the minimum wage law
recalled from the Senate after it hat
passed there and allowed to die in tn
House.
S. ?. 327 and H F. al, relating {
amount which employer shall pay inn
special compensation fund in case o
death of an employee where no per
sons are entitled to compensation.
s. r $40 and H p 416, relating {
payment of compensation during tn
healing period in case of permanent
partial disability.
s. r 326, relating to appeals to tn
Industrial Commission from decision
in compensation cases.
s. F. 322 and H. F. AIT, amending tn
Worknen's compensation law relativ
TO dependents.
s. ?. 324 and H. F. 418. amendin
schedule of compensation for certai,
cases of permanent partial disability.
s F. 742 and H 2. 828, requiring pay
meut of not less than the highest rat
of wages on public works.
s. F. TOT, subjecting products c
prisons in other states to the laws G
Minnesota
S. F. 708. requiring the branding an
labelling of convict-made goods sold i
this state.
S. F. 267 and H. F. BAT, providin
for one days rest in seven.
Representative Roy Wier, vigorou
champion, of labor in the Legislator
and secretary of the Central Labo
Union of Minneapolis, made report
that body The Senate, which wa
called conservative, was more hbers
on labor measures than the House" h
said
The rank and file of labor. it woul
seem, is now beginning to sense TIL
situation. Early this month ''Centrs
Labor Political Committee" was organ
lied by the Duluth Federated Trade
Assembly with the avowed purpose I
support friends and defeat enemies
on the political front. The new organ
ization divorced itself from the Centr:
Political Committee of Laborers an
Farmers of southern st. Louis count
which it denounced as a 'patronae
seeking" body, practically all of who's
officers were state employees" TT
new set-up was perfected by the Fec
Grated Trades Assembly, the Dulut
Labor World said. to emphasize til:
"reactionary legislators had put aero
more progressive labor legislation tina
So-called Farmer-Laborites and TO urG
all union labor men to go back to tt
days when they elected their FRIEND
and defeated their enemies
The action of the American Feders
ton of Labor in at last taking ofici:
cognizance of the charge of commu
niStic faint and red origin in the labe
troubles which have afflicted Mime
apolis for two years, threatening til
end of industry in the chief manufac
turing center of the northwest, exact
ing a fearful toll Of loss and miSer
from the union men who had no griev