The American Labor Legislation Review Volumes 10 11 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...the recent session of the New York legislature one of the most deplorable records on protective labor laws in the history of American states. More significantly, they won public condemnation which is faithfully reflected in the following from a New York Globe editorial--typical of the protests made generally by the metropolitan press in both parties: When it comes to describing what took place in the Assembly neither Walter Arndt of the Citizens' Union nor Governor Smith succeeds in phrasing the popular opinion. Temporary expedients, calculated to allay but not cure, were in high favor. Measures intended to bring about permanent improvement for the future were brushed aside. The disciples of Bourbonism and reaction effectively controlled legislative action. Thus the governor. Mr. Arndt refers to the session as a brainstorm. But words are feeble to express the disapprobation of a defied and disappointed citizenry. Something more enduring than anger, something deeper than contempt, has gone out against Speaker Sweet and his old guard. The executive council of the State Federation of labor in a summary of legislative results for 1920 issued May 24 declared: The legislature seemed to have energy only for battling with the haystuffed monsters of sedition it had hysterically created. Designed really as a smoke screen to obscure its purposes, the so-called Daly lobby--maintained by a reactionary group of manufacturers with the intent of preventing the adoption of progressive laws in this State--prompted the procedure by which the Socialist assemblymen were ousted from their seats in defiance of the Constitution of the United States. We deplore and condemn this autocratic action, mindful that if such a...