| Show LIBERAL LAWMAKERS the following report was submitted and adopted at the meeting of the federated trades council last night to utah federated trades and labor council delegates your committee on legislation respectfully report that there is now before both branches of the territorial legislature bills for the amelioration and protection of labor to wit first mechanics lien law second an act appointing mining in their duties and providing penalties for neglect of proper safe guards to employed emp loyes of mines third labor day a legal holiday fourth establishing free employment offices fifth anacito an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about coal mines manufactories manu factories of iron and steela steel and all alf other manufactories manu factories or buildings the payment of their wages at regular intervals iner vals and in lawful money of the united states so far indications point unfavorably to the success of those measures which are not needful for the protection and progress of organized labor in n the territory the mechanics lien ilea bill comes from the upper house with two sections relating to claims of miners stricken out though thong no good reason has been assigned why the miners should be excluded from the benefits of the act in what shape it may be reconstructed in the lower house remains to be seen the bill creating a bureau of labor statistics was rejected in committee A bill introduced by mr montgomery to fix the liability of railway way corporations in case of accident to employed emp loyes failed of passage it was subsequently reconsidered and the bill amended by inserting the word person persan after the word corporation in such a form it would bring the liability to the doors of every employer hiring men in dangerous and hazardous pursuits and in this simple form meet with the overwhelming wh elming approval of organized labor the bill as amended was defeated by a vote of 13 to 9 those voting for and against it being ayes allen alien arnett irvine W H irvine irvane J D montgomery moritz mackay snow tuttle 9 noes adams cotton colton cunningham kimball lawr nee marshall olson pierce pike sargent stoker wright 18 13 the bill introduced by mr moritz for an act making eight hours a days labor on all public works shared a similar fate we copy from the house journal thursday february alth H F no 23 a bill for an act making eight hours a days labor on all public works read third time up mr kimball moved to strike out the enacting enact clause motion adopted ayes Cunning cunningham bam irvine J D kimball lawrence mackay marshan marshall a olson snow stoker tuttle wright 12 1 noes adams allen alien colton irvine W H montgomery moritz pierce pike sargent r 9 apte absent b n t arnett ferr ferry 2 10 when it is recollected recollects that an eight hour law was recommended in the governors message that it was emphasized in the platforms of all the political iod parties 0 of the territory and that it must be as aa well known to every legislator as aa it is 18 to every well informed citizen that the eight hour law is in operation on all public works in nearly every state in the union the state thereby preparing the way tor for shorter hours in all the walks of labor when we remember acts words become inadequate to express ou our condemnations of legislation which is as barbarous as it is ungenerous barbarous because it is a relic of european slave labor ungenerous because the representatives senta tives of the liberal party who voted against labor legislation would stand as aa much chance as a snowball in bell to be elected lawmakers of the people did their antipathies antipa thies to labor find express expression li un before such election the bill for the abolition of the truck system in the payment of wages is the outcome of abuses which have arisen in the building trades and has our hearty approval respectfully hespect respectfully fully submitted PHIL CORCORAN JOHN DUGGAN REPORTS in addition to general routine and reports of committees the ou sub joined reports of trades were filed car carpenters penters on the eve of prosperity not doing ay u uch now but everything looks bright union men were generally employed up to the new year nonunion non union men and those who had dropped off were butof out of employment in november plumbers dull about two thirds employed printers fair painters very dull prospects good union gaining strength building laborers dull miners all in the eureka district generally employed complaint that the boarding arding bd houses have discharged female hol help epand and employed employed loyed and that emt th the da day y shift bif have ave to eat their dinner now in the mine instead of at the table which leaves the miners buried tor for twelve consecutive hours in the bowels of the earth something unheard of in the experience of old miners machinists and blacksmiths very dull two men out of employment international association of machinists dull the rio orande grande shops have laid off a third of the force newsboys Newsboy sales ales of papers to nonunion boys interfering with the union boys progress |
