Show U fin 0 HS S E N AT U N S and representatives WORK IN CONGRESS REVIEWED BY aa mm FRIEND OF THE workingman DEFEND THEM IF MY ARE ABLE at tho the recent republican rally in the speakers were introduce intro duc ed to the audience as aa the best men in in the state who were the worthy gentlemen why spry and II owell to be sure what they had done to merit such high r enc the chairman neglected to state how everee ever we were sure they had done wonderful things for utah and her people but wo we were not at that taine able to buttonhole our friends and tell them just exactly what glorious stunts they had pulled off we are now able to give you a line on and II owell and such is our purpose in in this article we also have some so dope on heed smoot some of you may have rd adad ad these th things ings before but 1 repetition will serve tonetter to better impress them t ion upon n your minds it should I llou id be rd remembered that the senators and congressmen were tp 1 I 1 1 R 19 n 10 b A d k I 1 egme va n I 1 women wo M I 1 e eno 0 utah ut MI ilow how well they have repaid the sons and daughters of toil is told by the facts after being 14 years on the sta tute books and honored tilt all departments of the government tile the 8 hour lay day for government em aloyes was taken by the throat we must worl work the laborers on the panama canal from sunrise to sunset sui iset was the wall wail of the tri trust tools as they urged the 8 hour laws repeal on the coral zone it was repealed in tho the house by a na row margin josph howells ed cd to repeal it when the ship subsidy bill was passed it also carried the conscript clause that is the men on the vessels were made against their organized protest members of I 1 the naval reserves joseph howell a gain again planted a liot hot one in labors I 1 solar plexus by voting for ship sub sidy and conscription ot of worming C men the dick military low law makes a 1 1 soldier of every able bodied man be tween IS and 45 subject not to a declaration of war by congress but to io the call of the president at any time lie chooses under this law you yol are r 0 liable to be called out some day to shoot your brother workingmen I 1 the original appropriation avas v as so tile the proposition to double it making it 4 million ini ilion dollars a searf was brought up in the house howell Hov vell at bat ba t again drove out a home run scouring for the strike breakers the file railroad interests presented abill a bill aimed to compel railroad em m aloyes to accept arbitration of at all I 1 labor the bro brotherhoods brothe the got ot busy aud and succeed cd in blocking its passage but our friend howell was johnny on the spot with lii 3 ever ready vote for the strike crushing bill several in their figh fight tasA again M ni st at the power of great corporations had their hands rhanda tied hy by injunction issued against them by 1 federal judges by a miracle A law was via passed eair wa ivr in to sonie ex c lit Is ia P practice of tho the judges howell miss ed cd this ono but his hia place was filled by liia his of tho the senate reed sot smoot mid and george who voted against them the bin bill anti and in ill favor of tile tho injunction judg es 63 tho the house passed on amendment exempting unious unions from the opera tion of the sherman antitrust anti trust law lav i grounds that a 1 union wat wa an organization formed with the purpose of bettering C the conditions of labor etc but howell after lodging dodging the question voted against exempting unions the bill was killed in the senate and smoot helped to kill it sneak ed cd out of it iv by not voting we ive see the good trio working in harmony of course 1 A decent employers liability measure was put before congress F but the life was taken out of it by sonic some of the dear millionaires millio million naira airs sena tor borsand sand when it was finally nally allowed books it was a 3 td go on the statute poor skeleton indeed the two good senators irom horn utah assisted in 11 tile job of letting the blood out of the inca men toward reducing tho the As a i step terrible and senseless slaughter of railroad workers the 16 hour bill was presented to congress it limited the hours of continuous employment I 1 on railroads to 10 10 16 to oppose po c such a measure is to condone wholesale slaughter yet all three of our best men inen are recorded as Ls having cast their votes against th the e bill and against the lives of thousands ands of workers wor kera but the unkindest un kindest cut of all I 1 came when our beloved senators voted for child labor they helped to lower tho the working tage age from 14 to 12 bithe dist of col columbia embla and na ate afi tw erss I 1 permitted b boys and g girls i rl 0 of th tins ten der age to york ork at any oc occupation pa in case they hive have poor and dependent parents that ii their beautiful way of solving tig the diio question of poverty send the children out to keep back the wolf wol lf the committee on judiciary was entrusted with the task of ascertain ing if congress could legally pass pas a national child labor law that was 4 years ago and the committee is still ascertaining while little backs are arc being bent and young minds do dc formed in the slave shops ask why the delay ile he is a member of that committee re republican publican workingmen you have been stung you will be stung a gain again and yet again until you get wise enough to send men of your own owl class to washington wisconsin will probably send two socialists to cong congress this fall and if such is tile ease case we ask you to watch them Comp compare tive their record with the records of tho the others then you will be ablo able to see tile advantages t of having representatives 1 to take care of oe your interests instead of your bosses interests socialist county committee |