Show A CRISIS IN LABOR LEGISLATION Probably the most Important in labor affairs n this thin country has arisen In Washington In connection with legislation desired d by the he affiliated ed unions whose representatives are ure arenow now in conference at the capital A number of or questions are up chief chef among which are the t E employers Habit liability liability ity bill as modified to meet the th recent decision of the supreme court the leg legislation Je legislation desired by the unions 10 to re r relieve lIeve them from the decision that boy boycotts b boycotts y cotts are illegal and nd tho the effort to se secure secure e cure a modification of ot the law aw which would prevent the te issuance of injunctions injunctions lions in labor disputes except after l hearing All AH three of or these subjects are of vast importance to the labor lab unions and hey are making a desperate ef effort effort effort fort to secure action on them before the adjournment of congress con The lh president is on record as favoring the employers liability bill but buc he is understood un understood to oppose any action which would look like legal sanction of the boycott nor is he willing to restrict the power of Injunction now possessed by the federal courts Whatever is done the action cf congress con congress congress gress either negative or positive o i l h hs sure s re to be a potent factor in m the th national na national national campaign In recent years the laboring men have gone to the polls polln with childlike confidence in the benevolence benevolence olence of the Republican party only to find when congress mst met l t that the Republicans had mighty little use for them after the polls pOlis closed The rho speak speaker er of ot the house and every evary Important committee in either house has systematically systematically prevented the most im important important important legislation asked for lor In n at least one committee hearing Mr Lit Littlefield of Maine llaine was deliberately In Insulting insulting insulting to Mr 11 Gompers Campers of o tho the Amer American American Amerlean ican lean Federation and the delegation accompanying him when they at attempted attempted attempted tempted to procure a committee committe r rJ Olt on ot a pending bill Now that the Republican elephant has stepped on the time full tull dinner pail pan and made that a delicate subject for campaign reference it is baiely bately ble the labor interests int rests will wilt hesitate quite a while before they stampede to the polls for the party that has bal made them promises only ohly to brak them o |