UNEMPLOYMENT RECORD FACES KOHLER FORCES
UNEMPLOYMENT RECORD FACES KOHLER FORCES Must Explain Action in Killing Unemployment Insurance Bill to Workers Reports from the Industrial cities of WisctJnatn which will be the principal battle...
...The address was listened to by a large element of citizens outside organized labor...
...Hanson, Hftt, Hurkstead...
...Pr/yhvlskl, Shau-ger, Schmiege, Schoenebeck...
...Green, president A. F. of L...
...and Pahl...
...True to form the Stalwarts began attacks upon the bill as a piece of socialism, and mustered sufficient votes to kill the bill...
...Lor-feW...
...With unemployment still on the increase...
...Sommers...
...Mentink...
...Piatteville...
...Racine, for many years a Progressive leader, ha...
...Keller...
...The following votes to indefinitely postpone and kill the bill: . Stalwarts—Ashley, Barnard, Brunette, Carow...
...The Kohler faction mustered 3S votes againsr...
...Janke and Smith —all ducked the roll call on the bill, although they came from industrial centers where the bill would have been the greatest, benefit...
...Green Advocates Higher Wages in Carolina Speech Every Man Is Entitled to At Least a Living Wage...
...It had received the endorsement of labor leaders, and even of many business captains...
...Edwards, Engel, Gebert...
...From the beginning the Money Ring's legislative- forces were marshalled into a unit of opposition against the proposed measure...
...Slack stated that he will run as a Progressive...
...Walter S. Goodland...
...Hilker, Hoesley...
...The provisions of the Nixon bill did not provide for temporarily employed men...
...Kieker, La Bar, Laey, Lamoie.mx...
...Miller...
...Pinn, Refa, Rheln^ans...
...Moul...
...he said, it is highly Important that labor look after its interests in this part of the country...
...Unemployment will be the chief issue in his campaign...
...Rowlands, Saugen, Slagg...
...William H. Sommers...
...The trade unionist, declared that labor would eventually be fully organized...
...A. Nixon...
...Loomls...
...Malrhow, Nehon, and Thayer...
...Wrnz and Woller...
...McDowell...
...Nixon...
...Green traced the recent changes In the South, declaring that, two decades ago there was liule in the South to indicate that this would be a great industrial center...
...but provided that ell large companies must carry insurance on their regularly employed force in order that they would not be left without income during slack periods in the business...
...UNEMPLOYMENT RECORD FACES KOHLER FORCES Must Explain Action in Killing Unemployment Insurance Bill to Workers Reports from the Industrial cities of WisctJnatn which will be the principal battle grounds of the 1930 campaign indicate that, sentiment is swinging heavily to Phil La f'ollette for governor...
...Lanrve...
...and were thus able to kill it...
...Slater...
...Stalwarts launched into a fight on the measure and succeeded in killing It...
...Green, president of that organization...
...Led by Assemblyman Robert...
...announced his candidacy for the state senate in opposition to Sen...
...a. Stalwart...
...Dugdale has thus far declined to state whether or not he will be a candidate...
...Springer, Stephens...
...is well known in union labor circles in Racine, and for 15 years has been custodian of Union hall where Racine labor unions meet...
...v -t* *t* Former Assemblyman Henry Slack...
...the mea.mre...
...Meyer, Mulder, Phalen, Prescott...
...se"sion sponsoring a measure modeled after the unemployment insurance bills which had been offered at previous sessions...
...The speaker declared that to discharge a man with a family because he Is a member of a labor union is the most reprehensible art an employer can do...
...he said...
...Economists had pronounced the bill economically sound and fair...
...Hunter...
...Washburn, one of the young leaders In the Progressive group in the legislature, the Progressives went back into the 1929...
...Pres...
...has announced his candidacy for the assembly again as an opponent, to Assemblyman Harry E. Stevens, also of Platteville...
...Ftonek, Gran-dine...
...Grobschmldt...
...Four other Stalwart assemblymen—Buntln, Conway...
...announcing his candidacy...
...Sommers declared ir...
...Dewey, Dihring, Eber...
...Gilbert-son, Goff...
...Huber, Husband, Insalls...
...It has been reported that Robert Dug-dale...
...said Wm...
...Laf-fey...
...editor of the Grant County News, and a veteran Progressive leader in Grant county, may decide to enter the race...
...Kohler is shouldering the burden of the Hoover administration's feeble record, and the significant, record of his own cohorts in the legislature In killing the unemployment insurance bill at the last session of the legislature...
...At each .session Progressives came back urging enactment of the bill into law pointing to the Increasing trend to the use of machinery as u Milxsiitution for man labor...
...Projressives—Hall, Hamper...
...at a mass meeting in this city...
...of A. F. L. Declares WINSTON-SALEM, N. C—"National tranquility can not exist where wealth is unevenly divided...
...No man should have to work without a decent living wage and any industry which is so poorly managed that the workers must live in poverty ought not to exist...
...Platteville...
...Mauthe...
...The Winston-Salem Journal editorially said: "The aims and purposes of the A. F. of L. could not have been more concisely presented nor more earnestly championed than they were by Wm...
...Cords, navies...
...Stalwarts—Chmurski, Kryseak...
...Rohan...
...Larson, Mersth...
...Voting for the unemployment insurance bill were the following: Progressive* — Raker, Barber, Beck, Be ires, Burnham, Ehbe...
...Several years ago Wisconsin Progressives began a fight in the legislature for the enactment of an unemployment insurance bill for the protection of regularly employed men and women laid off because of business depression...
...But facing a winter when Wisconsin was to have more unemployment than it had ever had in its history...
...Sullivan, and Perry...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
