THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFON IE, PA. OCTOBER 9, 1902, 3 PATTISONS GREAT LABOR RECORD Fifty Acts That Were Approved By Former Governor, HIS SERVICES TO HUMANITY Mining Law Revision—The Odious Abolished. Workmen's “Company Store" Protection to Wages—Anti-Conspiracy Law. WISE PROVISIONS FOR SAFETY Building and Factory Inspection—Fire | Escapes—The Anti-Pinkerton Law—Arbitration—*"La. bor Day.” THE RIGHTS OF LABOR UPHELD ROBERT E. PATTISON. Bverything fs grist to the Republi | every campaign | ean machine in credit is falsely claimed where it not justly and the attempt made to Influence the minds of voters regardless of facts agents and speakers of the Quay or ganization have is due, other workingmen, seeking to make it appear that their best friends are the legislative servants of the boss fact is the great reforms in the workers in the coal mines, were brought about during the two terms of Governor Pattison, who, in annual and special messages, and in every way open to him as the executive of the state, urged the enactment of legisla tion which should recognize and main- tain the rights and promote the best | interests of labor. Revision of Mining Laws. At the session of 1883 a special commission was created to revise the | mining and ventilation laws in the an- | thracite coal regions; also, an act was | passed, approved June 1, to protect miners in the bituminous region, pro- | 1 viding for just arrangements in con- nection with the measurement and weighing of coal; and June 13, an act was approved amending and revising ! law, | the general bituminous mining creating additional inspectors and pro- viding means for securing the health | At the session | i and safety of miners. of 1885 there was still further revis fon of the bituminous laws June 30 Pattison affixed his signature to an act providing for the health and safety of anthracite miners, this law being the result of the work of the commis sion appointed by him two years pre viously. It provided for seven in spectors, examining boards, and strin. gent regulations for the ventilation and protection of workers at all times. At the session of 1891, Governor Pattison approved, June 2, a supple mental act affecting the anthracite miners. At the same session, May 2. he approved an act protecting the wages of miners, laborers and farm workers. At the session of 1893 the bituminous laws were again revised and approved, May 15. On June 9, 1891, Governor Pattison signed the act providing for the abolition of com. pany stores. In every way possible the present Democratic candidate for governor showed his sympathy with wise and just efforts to promote the best interests of coal miners and all classes of workmen. Measures of Vital Interest, In addition to the above mentioned acts, at the session of 1883, Governor Pattison approved measures of special Iuterest to the workingmen of the state, an follows: Act of April 26, authorizing the crea tion and providing for the regulation of voluntary tribunals to adjust dis putes between employers and em. ployed In the manufacturing and coal trades, the first step taken In this commonwealth toward arbitration, Act of May 17, relieving commercial men, “drummers,” from paying local Hcense fees, Act of May 17, preventing the ex. emption of property on judgment ob tained on wages for manual labor Act of May 23, providing free even. Ing schools for children compelled to work during the day. Act of May 23%, exempting mutual GL A — loan and building associations from taxation for state purposes. Wise and Just Laws, Act of May 24, protecting dafrymen and the public from the sale of imi tation butter and cheese, unbranded. Act of May 25, providing for the care of Injured miners and theh transfer to their homes. Act of May 25, regulating intelld gence and employment offices, provid ing for the protection of persons geek ing work, Act of June 1, amending the escape law, with severe penalties, Act of June 18, amending the lottery law, protecting the public against swindling schemes, Act of June 5, amending the insur ance laws, exempting fraternal socle ties from the payment of fees. Act of June 30, providing for pay ment to miners for all clean coal mined. fire is | For weeks past been endeavoring to | make capital with the coal miners and | The | legisla | tion so long demanded, particularly by | approved | On the same date, Governor | Act of June 13, abolishing the con tract system in prisons and reforma tories. Act of June 13, securing the wages of workpeople. Act of June 20, branding all convict made goods. Act of June 20, providing for the disposal of property of benevolent as soclations Protecting Workmen's Lives. At the session of 1885, Governor Pattison approved, June 8, thorough revision of the fire escape law, pro viding severe penalties for bpeglect Ww earry out the law fo letter and In spirit. He also approved joint resolu tion No. § requesting Pennsylvania senators and representatives in eon gress to use thelr influence for the passage of the measure known as “The Foreign Contract Labor Bill" At the eession of 1801 Governor Pattison approved the act of May 20 providing an eight-hour day for state employes In public institutions Payment of Wages—Anti-Coneplracy Law. Act of May 20, amending the act of | 1887, providing for the semi-monthly payment of wages and muking refusal to comply with the law a misdemea {| mor, with $200 fine Act of May 23, authorizing corpora tions to pay accidental and sick bene | fits. Act of May 26. making the crime of railroad wrecking a capital offense Act of June 8, enabling soldiers and | saflors of the war for the Unlon to recover bounties for reenlistment Act of June 9, enabling all honor ably discharged soldiers and eallors to peddle without a license Act of June 18, to work people on strike from prosecution for conspiracy “Labor Day"—An Arbitration Law. At the of Pattison approved the following Act of April 8, regulating ganization of secret and beneficial so cieties and orders, and protecting the rights of members therein Act of May 11, to protect the life and limbs of workmen employed in the construction of buildings Act of May 11, authorizing corpora tions to provide pensions for aged or | disabled employes Act May 1 creating “Labor | Day.” now the first Monday In Sep | tember, Act of May 10, prohibiting the pay ment of naturalization fees by politi | cal organizations Act of May 18, to establish boards of arbitration to settle Act of May 24 | ment of boys under protect session 1883. Governor the or of labor troubles prohibiting employ 14 to run eleva tors The Anti“Pinkerton Deputy” Law. Act of May 29 regulating appoint ing employment as such of men citizens of Pennsylvania Act of May 27, providing for not | the | erection of the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ | Orphans Industrial School Act of May 31, creating Saturday half-holidays. | Act of June 8B, regulating the em | ployment and providing for the safety {| of women and children and inaugurat- ing the factory inspection system | Act of June 8, revising the building | fnapection laws of Philadelphia, pro viding greater safety for workmen, employes and the public. Act of June 6, authorizing special inspection of public schools and re quiring that provision be made for all children of the district Act of June 6, providing for relief of needy sick and injured Act of June 6, providing for better protection of the health and morals of school children Joint resolution of February 11, re questing senators and members of congress to vote against opening the World's Fair at Chicago on Sunday. Will Fight Them All the Time. Ex-Governnr Pattison had an enthu. plastic reception at Bradford last week, the home of ex-Senator Lewis Emery, the Independent Republican leader, who urged his friends every. where to vote for the Democratic ean. didate. In his speech Mr. Pattison, amid great applanse, aald: “It has been asserted by the ma- shine candidate that | ought not to be | glocted, because 1 would not be in har- | mony with the legislature, Well, 1 | thank Heaven, that 1 would not be, If | you expect me, If eiected, to be in har mony with them, you are greatly mis. taken. There Is not a JoAMBING for any man of integrity, who stan the constitution, and who Is sworn obey, to defend and to maintain constitution—~no man of principle-—to be in machine's legislature, ment of deputy marshals and prohibit. i GEORGE W. GUTHRIE. Hon George W. Guthrie, the Demo- eratic candidate for lieutenant gov- ernor, has been a revelation to the whole state. Until he started out with Governor Patuson, on thelr great cam- paign tour, he was comparatively un- known to the people at large, In Pltts- burg he had made a brilliant reputa- tion as an {otrepid reform ieader. To- day he stands on the front line in Pennsylvania as one of the ablest champions of clean politics and bonest government who has yet appeared upon the platform. His speeches at every point have been models of clearness and force, carrying conviction to the minds of thoughtful volers everywhere Pattison and Guthrie are leading a mighty crusade for the redemption of Pennsylvania that grows in strength every hour. THE LOST MINING BILLS How the Miners Were Betrayed at the Last Session of the Legislature. Concerning the significant efforts of Mr. Quay and his associates to utilize the great strike of 1903 for their own purposes, the Philadelphia Record thus polotedly turns on the light: The Machine and the Strike. The Republican managers may well be anxious on account of the far-reach- ing effects of the strike In the anthra cite coal fields. There would have been no strike at this time if the ip machine in control of the last legisia- ture had not prevented the senate com- mittee on mines and mining from re- porting for consideration House bill No. 216, which was passed almost unanimously by tue house of represen tatives “ This bill provided that in every an- thracite mine where coal is mined by weight or measure the miners should have a right to employ a competent check weighman measurer, who should see that coal was fairly weighed and miners given due credit for thelr work, This bill passed 1ne house by orders of the machine, on a deal in return fo votes in behalf of the notorious bill the abolition of the board of revision « taxes, but was never allowed ta be re ported out of the senate mmitt } mines and mining, of which that distin- uished follower of Mr. Quay, Milton feidelbaugh was chairman, and Messrs. Scott, Vare, Sproul, Haines and Stiles were among the members, three fourths of the committee being Quay men If this bill had become a law and the rights of the miners in the districts In which the miners are paid by weight or measure had been recognized, it can be asserted with confidence there would have been no coal strike; for, as is weil known, the vote in favor of the coal strike was carried by representatives of the seventy-five thousand and m miners in the Lackawanna and Upper Luzerne coal fields It is easy to understand why the Pen- rose Club should give $500 to the strik- ing miners, and why Governor Stone and Senator Quay should be anxious the strike should end. but the people who have to pay the Increased price for coal, and the miners and their families should understand that those who de- ceived and cheated them and defeated the just legislation which would have revented this strike are Republican yosses. that all their talk about sym- athy for the suffering miners, an ex ra session of the legislature and a compulsory arbitration law is bosh corr or the the oe OF ore LABOR'S JUST DEMANDS The Erie Platform On the Rights of Labor. The platform of the Democratic state convention, adopted at Erie in June last, contains plain and em phatic reference to labor contests, and particularly the coal strike, to the carrying out of which, In letter and spirit, its legislative and state candidates are solemnly pledged. Let every workingman, who wants to make his vote count, read and re member this declaration: “We deplore the existence of the labor trouble now affecting Important Industries and a large portion of the people of our state, and express the hope that through concession, mod eration and fair dealing an early ad Justment may be reached. While we concede to capital its right to the ut most protection guaranteed It by the constitution and the laws, we declare 1 as the conviction of this convention that labor also has the right to that protection which comes through or ganization and union. We believe that labor unions organized for the better ment of the condition of the wage earners, acting within the Iimitg of the law, and not subversive of public order, are not only lawful but com mendable, and should be met, recog: nized and dealt with accordingly, The right of labor to organize within these limits ls as sacred as any right of person or property. For the evils un: der which Pennsylvania suffers the Republican organization suggests no remedy. its platform Is absolutely barren of reference to them. It neither affirme nor denies their existence and promises no change.” An antl-machine majority in the leg- islature in now almost assured, Push the battle for reform In every distriot and the victory will be won, FORTY MORO FORTS DESTROYED Captain Pershing’s Column Routs Min danao Sultons, | Manila, Oct. 6. Captain John J. Pershing's column has completely | routed the Maciu Moros, in the Island | | of Mindanao, killing or wounding 100 { of them and capturing and destroying 40 forts, Two Americans were wound- { ed, On Tuesday the Moros retired to | thelr largest and strongest fort, on | the lake shore, and Wednesday Cap tain Pershing attacked them with ar tillery, bombarding the enemy for three hours. At noon Lieutenant Lor ing, leading a squad of men, attempted to set fire to the fort. Hp crept un. der the walls and started a blaze, but the Moros discovered him and forced the Americans to retreat. During the afternoon the Sultan of Cabugatan led a sortie at the head of a band of fanatics armed with krisses, They crept through grass and sprang up and attacked the Ameri cans. The sultan was wounded six times, and boloed an American before he died. His followers were killed, In the darkness Wednesday night Captain Pershing took his batteries within 100 yards of the fort, closed (n his Infantry and resumed the attack. The Moros broke through twice and attempted to escape by the beach, but were discovered and many of them were killed. The Moros aban doned the fort early on Thursday, af- ter 16 hours’ bombardment, and Thurs day Captain Pershing destroyed the rest of the forts and returned to Camp Vicars It is believed the moral effeet of the defeat of the Moros will be great General Davis Las ordered that hos tiities be stayed in order to permit the Bultan of Bacolod and other hos tle sultans to make peace the 1 LLos BRYAN ON MINERS’ 8TRIKE Bays President Roosevelt Bhould Be Commended For Efforts to End It. Lincoln, Neb, Oct, 7.—~In a statement made last evening W. J. Bryan says President Roosevelt should be com- mended for his efforts to settle the min- ers’ strike He suggests, however, that since the operators to ar- bitrate, the president's hands are Ued, and urges him call an extra session Five measures should be for passage Summarized they Mr. Bryan's words, as fol- lows: A law estabishing a national board of arbitration to consider and report on all controversies between all parties engaged In inter-state merce and thelr employes; a law abol- ishing government by aw 14a decline to of congress presented are. in coin~ natural-made man created by the Al- mighty and tae corporate giant created by legislation; a law taking the tariff off coal; a law which will prevent raii- roads from coal mines ex- cept for the purpose of supplying fuel for their own engines operating HAWAII'S TREASURER ABSCONDS Over $17,000, Honolulu, Sept via San Francis- Oct. 7.Willlam H. Wright, treas- urer of the territory of Hawall, leged absconder and a de fauiter to the extent of over §17.000. It is believed he stowed away the steamship Alameda, which left here last Wednesday at noon. bdecretary of the Treasury Henry E. Cooper has been appointed treasurer temporarily by ei, on to be an on injunction. a! Laat will discriminate between tue | William MH. Wright Disappears With | is al} Governor Dole Under the territorial act the treasurer is not required give bonds, and the legislature at Iast failed to make vision for bonds io session any pro- colin is in circulation It is belies the made in China. in this territors ed counterfeits were President Invited to Munt Moose. Minneapolis, Minn, Oct. 7.--Frank H. Kratka, mayor of Thief River Falls, Minn, yesterday sent to President Roosevelt an invitation to hunt moose in Northern Minnesota for ten days, beginning November 12. The invita tion was burnt on birch bark and was accompanied by a special hunters’ license, also on bark, for which the president, if he accepts, must pay $25, like any other non-resident hunter. The party is to include Senators Clapp and Nelson, Governor ‘Van Sant and Congressmen Fletcher and Morris Philadelphian Drops Dead. Washington, Oct. 7.Alfred W. Bow, sald to be a well-to-do resident of Phil- adeiphia, dropped dead in the Chesa- peake and Ohio Rallroad ticket office here yesterday. Mrs, Bew was across the street and saw her husband fall, but he had expired before sue oould reach him. He was 71 years old. They reached the city on Sunday from Flor Ida, where they had been visiting thelr daughter, Boss Carpenter Killed On Railroad. Lancaster, Pa, Oct. 1. « John H. Gelszel, a boss carpenter on the Penn. sylvania Rallroad, was instantly killed at noon yesterday by being struck by the fast mall on the outskirts of the eity. He stepped out of the way of a freight train directly in front of the fast mall. Almost every bone in his body was broken. He was 52 yoars old, and leaves a widow and two chil dren, Fatally Injured In Football Game, Hagerstown, Md, Oct. 6. Benjamin Thompson, 23 years old, of Martine its | A large amount of counterfeit silver Gained Forty Pounds in Thirty Days, For several months our younger brother had oeen troubled with indiges. tion, He tried several remedies but got no benefit from them. We purchased some of Chamberiain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets and be commenced taking them, Inside of thirty days he had gained forty pounds in flesh, He is now fully recovered. We have a good trade on the Tablets. Horry Bros, Mer. chants, Long Branch, Mo. For sale by Green's Pharmacy. R.B. MONTGOMERY. We Don't Promise More Than We Give You, But-- We Give You All we Promise IN THE LINE OF sew Wall Paper, House Painting, * Paper Hanging, Graining, Etc, R, B. MONTGOMERY, KE. W. Corner Public Bguare BELLEFONTE, PENN'A E.K. RHOADS At his yard opposite the P R. R. Passenger station, sells only the best qualities ANTHRACITE _ BITUMINOUS COALS. Also all kinds ot Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw and Sand. Bupericr screenings for lime burning. Builder's and Plasterers’ sand. TELEPHONE CALLS: Central - - - + « «. « « Commercial . - - - McCalmont's New Store. In Bush Arcade is attracting more attention every day. Three large rooms on first floor and the extensive basements are filled with a variety of goods, Enlarged Stock. To-day this firm is carrying a larger and more varied stock than the additions formerly. Among you will find Hardware embracing a fine selection of the best Carpenter Tools, Blacksmith Tools, Stonemason Tools, Bricklayer's Tools Ete. we have tinware buggies, Remember graniteware, woodware, and heavy harness, brushes of all kinds. Every kind implements of the Best carriages, light of farm make. At this time of the year you may be thinking of an Ice Cream Freez- er, Lawn Mower, we have them. We are anxious to have you drop in and see this modern store, when in town. Location is next door to Post Office. McCalmont & Co. You want to see the a000 BARGAINS we have in ens Work Shoes for 6ager & Davis The Shoe Money Savers, Belloc aid Philoshry, Pa. J
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