Show BLACKLISTED The Republican organ in this city in a hote on the Provo convention remarked re-marked on Wednesday The ringing resolutions Incorporated I I into the platform were largely the work of Governor Thomas chairman i lof the Salt Lake delegation I In this connection we couple the annexed I an-nexed paragraph from that platform Sixth We oppose as cruel and tnjust the blacklisting of the employees who are discharged from or leave the service ser-vice of their employer Now notice these facts At the legislative legis-lative session of 1892 sometimes called i tlie Democratic legislature a bill was introduced in the House entitled A t Bill for an Act for the Protection of Discharged Employees One of its jcflief features was a provision intended intend-ed to prevent what is known asf blacklisting black-listing It was House file No 43 and was referred to the Committee on Incorporations In-corporations because it was designed to restrain corporations in wanton encroachment en-croachment upon the rights and liberties liber-ties of their workmen requiring a discharge dis-charge to be made in writing with the reason for such discharge It passed the House by a large majority I ma-jority and the Council by a vote of seven to five It was vetoed by the Executive and the signature to the veto was Arthur L Thomas Gov ernor So much for the history of I the bill Under these circumstances there are numerous Inquiries as to whether A I I L Thomas has had a change of heart or whether he has forgotten or thinks others have forgotten his veto or whether the resolution as to blacklisting black-listing like other buncombe planks in the Provo platform is only a sop to I the laboring element and a bait for votes from the railway men for the g o p Thee little quirks and shiftings are characteristic of the little egovernor I who like Diqkens Joe Bagstock is I sly devilish sly But he does not I sense the fact that railroad men have a keen sense of injuries received and some of them have retentive memories as well as clear heads if they have hard hands The hook In this instance is badly baited and the railroaders are laughing over4 the idea that they could be caught on any such a line as that thrown by peewee Railroad men can do a little blacklisting black-listing of their own when necessary And if the names they have marked but not for glory were to be scanned that of the slayer of the bill they wanted and the thrower of the sop which they will not swallow will be found marked with the blackest of the black lines on their list |