Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — ERDMAN DIES OF APOPLEXY [ARTICLE]

ERDMAN DIES OF APOPLEXY

Author of National Arbitration Act Dies at Pennsylvania Home. Former Congressman Constantine J. Erdman is dead at Allentown, Pa. When be entered congress in 1893 he drafted the bill for the prevention of strike and some of the labor disputes. He secured the ideas embodied in the measure while serving as adjutant of the national guard of Penn- ; sylvania during the bloody Reading railroad riots.