Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — Cleveland’s Labor Record. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland’s Labor Record.

Governor Cl eveland signed the bill, passed by a Democratic legislature, to allow the people to express their opinion against the -competition of convict with honest labor. Governor Glevefland compelled the last Republican legislature, much against its will, to pass a bill in accordance with the wishes of the people so em • phaticallv expressed at the polls last Fall, against the continuance of the prison contract -system. Governor Cleveland signed <he bill to abolish contract child labor »a all the State reformatories. Governor Cleveland approved two bills against tenement'house cigar manufacturings Governor Cleveland signed tbe bill making workingmen first creditors for sages in case of the fa Sure of the employer or contractor. Governor Cleveland signed the >kill to protect hat mak-ere from convict factureGovernor Cleveland signed the bill to protect widows and orphans from swindling irsuraaee corporations Governor Cleveland gave his signature to the emigration bill to protect emigrants from extortion and robbery. Governor Cleveland signed the bill to prevent pawnbrokers from roobing the poor and unfortunate. Governor Cleveland signed the bill for the better protection of those who place their earnings in the saving banks Governor Cleveland signed the bill which provides for tbe testing of steam boilers, that laboring men might b - better protected fiom accident resulting from the careless indifference of wealdn Corporations. Governor Cleveland asked the last Republican legislature to appropriate sufficient funds allow laboring men to continue work mi the capital. This the Republican levisMure refused to do, pieieiTUig to squ .udet lhe IS'ate funds on commissions and political investigating committees rather than for the benefit of workiugmen What Goyernor of New York has done more for labor than Grover Cleveland. —Aloany Argus.