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Show INDUSTRIAL COURT'S WORK DECLARED FAILURE Mine Worker' President Sy Plan Doe Not Bene- fit Laboring Man TOPEK A, Kan.. March IS A review of th worVtftff of th Kansas tndm-trlat tndm-trlat court law from a mint union official' of-ficial' point of view ha nea mu by Aletaader Howat. prealdaM of district dis-trict No. H, L'nlted Mlna Workers of America. Mr. Howat ray: "Th Industrial court has n lit ettatence on year. Ourtn P riod It hap acomptlh?d not h in In bettering labor' condition In thl mat, a few wag; claims Involving but a very small nuinbr of mtn have been handled by th Industrial court, a few crumb handfd out as a ba.it to lAbor, but for every pnny thut has ben paid out to labor, hundred of dollar hav been ffiven to th public utilities corporations In increased ralr a. ICtajht of l cents an hour In -crtae was civen to the employes of the Joplln Hiituburn Kallway company, com-pany, who were already working for a starvation wign of $3.10 or $4 per day, and th panaenver rates of th company were almoin doublsd. "Th Industrial court alao added about 15 1 -J per cent to the value of th telephone company at Tope k a, and did th name at Kansas City. Kan., and permitted their rales to b ad- I JltSted, riMngly COST 19 HIUM. "The Jndtistrial court has font th taxpayers many thousands or dollars ' directly, and many hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars In Increased rates to public utilities that hav been given by th Industrial court. It has prevented pre-vented no strikes and has don nothing noth-ing but aggravate th labor problem and Create Industrial strife. "Every honest, self-respecting working work-ing man In the state should resent a law of this character. There Is no law even In the moat autocratic country coun-try of Kurope today that enslaves the workers In such a. manner as U Intended Intend-ed by this law. "This law la aa Infringement en the saeret rights of every honest working work-ing man Tn the state of Kansas This called Industrial court law Is an Insult In-sult to every man who believes la the principles of liberty and ustlcs and Is a disgrace to the state of Kan. This law 1 meant is enslave organised labor la-bor an dte place us In the same condition con-dition that we were In year ago, before be-fore we had established the I'nlted Mtne Workers. It Is meant to place us at the complete mercy of the employers em-ployers of labor. It Is Intended to destroy the usefulness and effectiveness effective-ness of our organisation, and. In fact. Is only the beginning of a movement that Is finally Intended to enslave the working class of America and to destroy de-stroy the organised labor movement of the entire- country. "Orrinlsed labor la not opposed to the lnduatrlal court law because of our desire to call ntrikre. but we know from bitter eaperienca of the past what It means to us If we surrender the right to atrike. or if that right la taken away from is. It la only because we have In the past enjoyed the rlarht to atrlka that we have ever been a-bla to compel the employers of labor to srant any concessions that have been accorded ua. We know how little sympathy or consideration we may expect at the hands of the employers em-ployers when we are chained to our jobs like a lares. Organised labor in Kansaa has a right to sxpect the a me deirree of liberty and Justice tbat la accorded the organised workera In tn other stsvtes of the nation, and we ara going to continue to fight until that frlnrlple Is recognised and reestaO-Ished reestaO-Ished in this state. Injunctions and Industrial courts shall not be permit ted to Interfere with our policy in any way. The Kansat Industrial court law was the outcome of the miners' strike of and was paseed chiefly through the Influence of Governor Henry J. Allen. It created A court of throe members mem-bers to hear controversies in Industries Indus-tries and ut Hit lea; was given the power to Intervene on Ita own Initiative Initia-tive In Industrial controversies and may make orders relativa to wages and hours of employment. IOMU PROVISIONS. The law declares it unlawful- for operators to willfully limit or ceaac operations for the purposes of limit -Ins; production or transportation or to effect priceo for the purposes of avoiding any of the provlsiooa of the act The law also declares It to be unlawful un-lawful for any two or more 'employe-in 'employe-in Industries .named to conspire to quit emplovment for the purpose of hindering, delaying: or suspending opera op-era t ions. The right of any Individual t quit employment at any time Is rerognUed. The law provides thut a willful violation vio-lation of provisions of the net or of an ordr of court is a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum fine of $1000. a maximum term of one year, or both. In the case of an officer of a corporation or the officer of a labor organisation willfully violating the provisions of the act. they will be gutltv of a felonv. punishable by a maximum fins of 15000 or a maximum term of two years, or both. |