tribute to the delinquency of n
minor child.
TOM GAFFNEY ON LABOR
On Workmen’s Compensation
Insurance
The revised Workman’s Compen
sat*on Act introduced by Joseph
Murray reduced the amounts pay
able to alien mothers and rather?
>f deceased persons to 50 per cent.
The argument against the re
duction advanced by William L.
Paul was that compensation insur
ance Avas “blood money” and there
should be no discount merely be
cause the mother was an alien.
Tom Gaffney led the argument
spying that “the rate of exchange
would make up the difference” and
so he supported the amendment de
sin d by the big mining companies.
! oor Judas Iscariot! If he had
only known about the “rates o!
exchange” his thirty pieces of sil
ver might have increased to sixty.
We Avould like to hear the discus
sion that will raise in the future
Avorld when Tom Gaffney and Jud
as Iscariot meet and talk about
“V.ood money” and the blessings of
“rates of exchange.” The fight
arainst Gaffney’s “rate of ex
change” theory was lead by Dick
Sundquist.
The important amendments offer
ed were increasing the weekly bene
fits from 50% to 65%; “Station
Contractors” are considered “em
ployees;” “Independent Contractor’
is defined.
Senator Tom Jenson voted
aga;nst the bill.
“FRIEND OF LABOR”
».Tirls are continually being hired
in Seattle by the herring packers
and told about the “big money”
which they can earn in Alaska
packing herring 750 to the barrel.
When they arrive they find that
either it takes 1250 or there is no
work, all herring goigg into ferti
lizer.
A girl came before the legisla
ture and showed that she and her
pa} ba4 worked almost two months
and had earned only $1.35 above
expenses.
John Rustgard, Attorney General
prepared a bill declaring that a
barrel of herring would mean one
containing 750 herring unless oth
erwise provided by contract.
Tom Gaffney voted against the
bill because he said it would be
“unfair to capital.” But how about
the girls and the smooth talk of
“capital.” Gaffney’s record is con
stant on “blood money.”
LAW-SUITS FOR WAGES
r' he “Monthly Pay Day Bill
(H B. 58) was introduced by Wil
liam L. Paul. It provided that cor
poration's, should pay wages on the
10th of each month or on demand
within three days if the person
filed. In case of lawsuit to collect
wages, if the laborer won his sub
stantial claim, the wages should be
figured up to the date when judg
ment i's paid. This provision was
to stop groundless appeals to tire
out honest claims.
^OM GAFFNEY voted again.it
this bill because he said it was un
fair to Capital. The complete vote
wa^ as follows: FOR THE WORK
ING-MAN—Charles Benjamin. Ben
Grver, Fred Johnston, Wm. L.
Paul, H. H. Ross, Dick Sundquist,
Billy Worth.
AGAINST THE WORKING-MAN
—Walter Fisher, Tom Gaffney.
Ralph Lomen, Joseph Murray,
“SBrn” Rydeen, Thos. Scott. Rob
ert Sheldon, Sumner Smith, Charlos
Ferguson.
The motion to kill this bill was
made by Ralph Lomen and second
ed by “Slim” Rydeen.
GAFFNEY AND THE BIG MINES
Tom Gaffney, “Friend of Labor,"
was chairman of the Committee on
Labor. He supported Jim Daly,
lobbyist of the Kennecott Mine
Jack Hellenthal, lobbyist of the
Alaska Juneau, R. E. Robertson,
lobbyist of the Alaska Steamship
Company, and all othera who were
there to fight bills designed to in*
He, with Rydeen and Walter
Fi::her, voted against the Industrial
Insurance Act Introduced by Wi!
liam L. Paul and modeled after the
acts especially recommended and
approved by the Amerian Federa
tion of Labor.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1
This bill was introduced by Gaff
nev to increase the Pioneer’s Pen
sion to $30.
Later on, over the objections of
W lliam L. Paul. Gaffney withdrew
House Bill No. 1.
IRELAND
Ireland was kept in slavery for
hundreds of years by Tom Gaff
neys, enemies of home rule, sup
porters of British foreign rule and
British Bureaucrats.
The term ‘fawning Irishmen”
wss born of Irishmen who gave ful
some praise to British governors.
Not long ago, Tom Gaffney was
collecting money around Nome to
hc’p Ireland gain HOME RULE. Bui
when it came to giving his own
country home rule, he voted and
fought against it.
THE FAKE CONVERSATION
In his desire to “blarney” thj
federal Governor, Tom writes about
an imaginery conversation with
Governor Parks—we say it is im
ag nary because every one who
knows the governor, kncfvs that;
such a conversation i3 foreign to
his nature.
“The governor said, “Tom, do
not become discouraged. Your ait
mail bill has too much merit to be
killed. Your Division is in dire
need of mail communication at
this time of the year; keep up your
fight; you will win.” “Those words
gave me inspired confidence, etc.”
when there never wa3 a time when
the Legislature did not favor the
bill.