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chiselling type of employers, seeking
to protect their benefit account in the
unemployment compensation fund and
reduce the amount of their contribu-
tions after 1912, would appeal every
claim allowed their unemployed work
ers in the hope that they would get
another job before the appeal could
be heard and the claim finally allowed
and benefits paid.
Minority Leader Feighan's OBJ
jections to the emergency clause were
filed in formal, written form with the
Clerk of the House, asserting:
No emergency exists. The rec
ords show that the facts alleged to
create an emergency are fallacious.
The Legislature should respect the
peoples rights. The constitutional con-
vention of 1912 created for the people
the right of Legislative review, namely
the referendum. The passage of this
bill as an emergency measure has only
one object, to deprive the voters of
their constitutional privilege to have
the ultimate say on legislation affect
ing their welfare. This right should
not be denied the people for ulterior
motives or to crafty political appe-
tites.
"The manner in which this bill has
been jammed through constitutes a
big travesty of representative govern
ment as the emergency section is a
mockery of the constitution
Representative Lody Huml, (D),
Cleveland, predicted the political
downfall of those who ignored the
wishes of majority of their constitu-
ents, and charged that if the bill pass
ed, the Republicans were violating
their oath of office and the pledges
of their platform. He pointed out that
organized labor and other progressive
groups which drafted and fought for
the unemployment compensation law
had not been consulted on the pro-
posed changes.
Representative H. L. Mason, (D), of
Upper Sandusky, declared that the
Republican leaders had not shown or
attempted to show where the public
labor or employers had been injured
by the law in it's present form.
"If the law in it's amended form
works, it will be fine," Representative
Mason said, "but if it doesn't it will
work a terrible hardship on the un-
employed of this state that cannot be
rectified."
Representative Martin E. Blum
(R), Cleveland, a member of organ
lied labor and chairman of the House
Committee that recommended the bill
for passage, defended the bill and said
he was Every happy and pleased to
stand here and ask for the passage of
this bill as an emergency measure"
Representative Graham kirkpatrick
| (R), Utica, Licking county, a member
of the Machinists' Union, denounced
the action of the Newark Federation
of Labor and affiliated Local Unions
in appealing to him not to support the
bill as an emergency.
He urged other members of organ
lied labor in the House to have the
courage" to vote according to their
own minds and disregard the tele-
grams and letters from Unions asking
defeat Of the proposal.
81 resent the methods being used
in attempts to force me to vote against
my own convictions" Representative
Kirkpatrick read from his prepared
statement. ''If this is continued, la
tbor in Ohio will be faced with the same
restrictions imposed upon organized
labor in the State Of Oregon
He accused Edgar E, Baker, secre-
tary of the Newark Federation of La
Dor, of Withholding the facts pertain
ing to the bill in order to obtain fav-
orable vote by the Central Body
against the measure for purely po-
litical purposes"