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Show SENATE REJECTS PENALTY BILL Clause Granting Right to Strike for Better Wages Voted Down. HOUSE TO RECONSIDER i Bitter Denunciation of Labor's Attitude in War in Congress Con-gress Debate. WASHINGTON, pril 11. The con -ference report on the bill providing severe penalties for destruction of. or Interference with production of essen-tial essen-tial war materials, containing the j clause giving workmen the right toi strike for better wuees or working conditions, was rejected today by the senate 34 to 2". The roll call on adoption of the con- ference report follows: For Democrats: Culberson, 1 letch -er, Gerry, Henderson, Hollis, Janie Jones of New Mexico. McKellar, Martin. Mar-tin. Overman Pittman, Ransdell, Sha-froth. Sha-froth. Sheppard. Shields. Simmons, Swanson, Thompson. Tillman, Tram- mel and Vardaman. Democrats, 21. Republicans John -on of California,! McNary, Aelson and Norn. " Republicans, 4. Total for adoption. 25 Against Democrats Bankshead, Chamberlain Hitchcock, Kirby, Myers. I'oruerene, Reed. Smith of Georgia, Smith of South Carolina Thomas and C ndej woe.! Democrats, 11 Republicans: Baird, Prandegee, Cummins, Fall, France, Frelinghuysen, Ga Dinger, Hale, Harding, Jones of Washington. Kellogg. Knox, Lodcre, McCumber. New. Pane, Penrose, Poin-dexter, Poin-dexter, Sherman. Townsend, Wads-worth, Wads-worth, Wairen and Weeks. Republicans. 2 I Total against. 3 I i-iouoe to i-icconsiaer. The vote, taken immediately today uion reconvening of the senate and following yesterday 's bitter denunciation denuncia-tion of labor's attitude in the war in the numerous strikes on war jobs, will cause the house to re-consider the bill. The senate's opposition was directed solely to the clause providing that the bill should not restrict workmen work-men from striking. i Many senators who objected to the ; pro lsion regarded today's vote as a ; rebuke to workmen who have struck at j shipyards and lactones engaged on war work Senator Overman of North Carolina, who had charge of the measure yesterday, declared that "should the senate defeat the conference confer-ence report because of the labor clause, the entire legislation would die " While the sennte was rejecting the much-discuss'-d resolution. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, ipeaking before the National Na-tional Conference of Lecturers here, was denouncing the proposal to prohibit pro-hibit strikes and walkouts. ' A - a pairioile A nieriea n citizen," declared Mr Gompers. "I serve warning warn-ing on congress not to permit ih-deviltry ih-deviltry and folly of such a law. It will serve only to make strikers law-oi law-oi i lakers as well. "Nothing will do more to creat resentment re-sentment than to make it unlawful for men to stop work." Mr. Gompers complained that Amer- (Continued on Page 11.) 1 SENATE REJECTS ! PENALTY BILL (Continued from page 1.) lean newspapers are giving to unsparing un-sparing criticism of strikes apparently appar-ently forgetting that isolated instant 1 a are of minor importance when it la considered that millions of organized laboring men are giving their best efforts ef-forts to the nation Labor troubles, he said, have been few and in most cases easily adjusted. Nobody, be declared, has served more effectually in offsetting the influence in-fluence of pernicious German propaganda propa-ganda than organized labor. "No one has done more than the representatives of the labor movement to prevent enemy propaganda from Interrupting war industries here," said he. Conscription of labor was assailed by Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, who declared that conscription in a democratic demo-cratic nation should be used only for military purposes. |