THE ROLL CALL
The Roll Call ON MEN AND MEASURES Standing Firm and Pointing Oat a Duty CONGRESS has again given strong expression of the legislative intent not to include labor organizations and farmers'...
...All attempts, therefore, to make this occasion serve as an opportunity for meeting what is clearly public demand and social justice by adding a provision to the Sherman anti-trust law definitely and clearly exempting labor unions and farmers' associations from its intent and application, were frustrated...
...The school will begin the last of August and last one month...
...Here is the Vote: Voting for the Gallinger Amendment—32...
...General Legislation" Debarred A GAIN AND AGAIN during the debate Sen-ators called attention to the fact that nearly every speaker, whether for or against the Gallinger motion, appeared in favor of exempting labor unions and farmers' associations from the application of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...Gallinger voted with the Democrats...
...This, however, but emphasizes the further duty of the Senate—and of the House—to write into the statute a provision expressing unmistakably the legislative intent not to permit this law directed against trusts and monopolies to be aimed by the courts against organizations of wage earners and farmers for equality of bargaining power with organized industry and trade, and for self-betterment...
...The Senators who held to this last named point of view constituted a majority of those voting upon the Gallinger amendment and the provision was not stricken from the bill...
...and if the report of said committee shall be in favor of such exception it is further directed to accompany the report with a bill to accomplish the purpose...
...to indicate that it was by a mistaken and wrongful construction that the courts applied the anti-trust law to labor unions...
...On April 22 the House of Representatives passed the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill containing a provision that none of the money appropriated for the uses of the Department of Justice shall be expended in bringing suits against labor unions or associations of farmers under the law aimed at trusts and monopolies...
...The President objected to this bill because it contained a provision that no part of the money appropriated for the Department of Justice should be used in bringing suits against labor organizations or farmers' associations under the Sherman law...
...Weeks Cummins MeLean Smoot Worka Voting Against the Gallinger Amendment;—41...
...His point of order was sustained by the chair, in accordance with the rules of the Senate...
...The Senate Refused to do this...
...Ashurst Johnston, Ala.O'Gorman Smith, Md...
...When we remember that the great Woman Suffrage Party of Greater New York originated in Mrs...
...Gallinger's Motion IT WAS Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire, reactionary Republican, who moved that the provision be stricken from the bill...
...She expects to gain from this enterprise from 25 to 50 trained workers...
...Lenroot...
...The Sherman anti-trust law is amended by adding the following provision, "provided, that this act shall not be construed to apply to any arrangements, agreements or combinations between laborers made with the view of lessening the number of hours of labor or of increasing their wages...
...Gallinger immediately made a point of order against the Gronna proposal on the ground "that it proposes general legislation on an appropriation bill...
...By refusing to strike out the provision as attempted by Senator Gallinger the Senate did its duty toward labor and the farmers...
...Senator Cummins moved that the further consideration of the bill be postponed until May 17, and that the Committee on Interstate Commerce be directed to make a report to the Senate not later than Wednesday, May 14, whether the organizations and unions mentioned in the pending amendment to the bill under consideration should be excepted, in whole or in part, from the operation of the statute commonly known as the anti-trust law...
...But this proposal, too, was defeated by a vote of 43 to 31, the Democrats voting against it in a body as an interference with their legislative program...
...burleigh dillinghana owen stone catron fall penrose tilluman chamberlain jackson Pittman Lenroot for Labor IN THE article on this page for May 3, "A Wrongful Application of the Anti-trust Law," the name of Congressman I. L. Lenroot of Wisconsin was omitted in printing the vote of the House on March 4 to pass the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill over President Taft's veto...
...3) the provision should remain in the bill to give emphasis to the legislative intent not to bring the unions under a law designed to prevent trusts and monopolies...
...Catt's fertile mind...
...But if that is so they are not saying anything about it...
...that it is now well located in many parts of the state as an efficient mode of propaganda, it is safe to prophesy this: York State women may not emerge from the pending campaign with the vote but they will emerge a long way on the road toward being able to use it intelligently—when they do get it...
...in Parliamentary Usage...
...la follette reed thompson fletcher lea robinson thornton gore lewis saulsbury vardaman hitchcock martin, va...
...Catt will herself manage the practical field work with which the school will bring its career to a finish...
...The first essential is a great leader and none other than Carrie Chapman Catt of world-wide fame is slated for the position...
...On this motion there was an extended debate...
...She has accepted provisionally and is now on her way to Budapest where she expects to decline a re-election to the presidency of the World Suffrage Alliance...
...Senator Gronna offered in place of the provision under discussion the following amendment...
...Gallinger, however, was forced to admit that "I think the law ought to stand precisely as it is...
...2) the provisions should be stricken from the bill because it would have the appearance of sanctioning class discrimination in the enforcement of an existing statute, and that Congress should change the form of the law if it wished to make certain that the labor unions were not to be brought under the law by the courts...
...norris smith, ga...
...nor to any arrangements, agreements or combinations among persons engaged in horticulture or agriculture made with a view of enhancing the price of agricultural or liorti-cultural products...
...shafroth walsh Hollis martine, N. J. sheppard williams myers shields james Newlands simmons johnson, me...
...Borah du pont nelson stephenson Brandegee Gallinger page sterling Bristow Goff perkins sutherland Burton Gronna Pomerence Thomas Clapp Lippitt Root Townsend Colt Lodge Sherman warren Crawford McCumber Smith, Mich...
...Congressman Lenroot was present and voted "Yea...
...She plans to open the New York struggle by opening in the autumn a training school for suffrage workers...
...Bacon Jones Overman Smith, S. C. Bryan Kern Ransdell swanson clarke, Ark...
...Not Voting—23...
...They are better occupied by sharpening their weapons for the greatest campaign in the history of the suffrage movement...
...He voted to protect labor unions and farmers' associations against a wrongful application of this law aimed at trusts and monopolies...
...What The York State Suffragists Have Learned from Michigan By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ IT MAY BE that the Michigan defeat has taught the York State suffragists the impossibility of carrying New York State...
...But there were very few voices raised in support of this opinion...
...Three points of view were presented: (1) the provision should be stricken out because labor unions and farmers' associations should be held under the application of the Sherman anti-trust law just as trusts and monopolies...
...that it was built up under her able management...
...The Roll Call ON MEN AND MEASURES Standing Firm and Pointing Oat a Duty CONGRESS has again given strong expression of the legislative intent not to include labor organizations and farmers' associations within the meaning of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...Bankhead chilton kenyon poindexter bradley clark, wya...
...Senator Gallinger Attempted to Have Stricken Out of the Sundry Civil Bill the Provision to Protect Labor Unions and Farmers Co-operative Associations from the wrongful Application of the Anti-trust Law...
...lane shively brady culberson oliver smith, ariz...
...to hasten the passage of an amendment to the Sherman law providing clearly and unmistakably and in terms that may not be misconstrued by the courts that this antitrust statute is not aimed at labor unions or farmers co-operative associations...
...Points a Further Duty THE PROVISION in the Sundry Civil Bill, therefore, was the most that could be obtained on this occasion by way of protecting labor unions and farmers' associations from a construction of the anti-trust law made by the courts mistakenly and unjustly...
...in compiling and delivering suffrage speeches will be opened...
...Classes in Constitutional History...
...By a vote of 41 to 32 the Senate refused to strike out this provision...
...We regret this omission, but it is a pleasant duty in correcting it to note again the progressive record of Mr...
...Catt will tour the state collecting data and consulting with workers, after which she will appear at the state convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association with a resume of her experience and plans for further work will be perfected...
...And on May 7 the bill was passed in the Senate with this provision included...
...After this educational venture is consummated Mrs...
Vol. 5 • May 1913 • No. 20
