The Advocate and news., 1899-01-11
House Bill No. SO.

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retary who shall succeed TO the powers
and duties OF the commissioners OF labor
statistics and be ex o1iiciO state factory
inspector and an assistant secretary VINO
shall be assistant c0mnlssioner OF ihDo5
statistics. and to collect, report and
disseminate statistics OF labor and indus
try and repeating chapter 1SS, laws OF 1873.
Be Il enacted by the Legislature Of the
State Of Kansas:
Section l. Whenever seven or more la
bOrers workngmen, miners OF coal, zinc
or other minerals for wages, mechanics,
railway laborers or other wage earners
are now organized or shall hereafter organ
ize as q labor association or labor society,
In any county, city, or other municipality
in the State OF Kansas for the purpose or
collecting, studying and disseminating sta
tIstlcB OF labor and industry, or for the
investigation OF economic, commercial OF
industrial pursuits or for the improve
Hnent and promotion Of the various
soclations or societies, or for other pur-
poses hereinafter mentioned IN this act
+, said association or society shall be author-
ICED TO choose one delegate TOR the hrst
4 nifty members or fraction thereof and one
delegate for each additional one hundred
members or majority fraction thereon TO
represent such association OF society IN the
annual meeting OF the State Society on
Labor and Industry, and said delegate or
delegates shall be duly certified under oath
as elected on the above basis by the pre-
siding officer and secretary OF such asso-
citation or society; such delegate or dele
gates shall be admitted to and become
members Of the State Society Of Labor and
Industry, until the first Monday In Febru-
ary next following or until their success
gors shall have heen chosen ana admitted;
provided, that such association or society
shall have been organized at least ninety
days and that the officers OF said associa-
tlon or society shall have made report TO
the commissioner OF labor statistics for
the previous year upon the labor and indus"
trial conditions and otherwise shall have
answered such lnterr0gatorles propounded
by the commissioner OF labor statistics in
his annual blanks; and further provided,
that at any time any such association or
society may recall its delegate or delegates
NV choosing their successors as herein pro-
Vlded for.
Section q On the first Monday in Febru-
ary 1899 and every year thereafter, the
Delegates elected TO said State Society OF
Labor and Industry shall assemble at the
state capitol at an hour and place to be
BkeN by the secretary in his annual call
therefor said call to be sent to each asso-
clatlon or society at least thirty days before
such assembling: Provided. that the call
FOR the first meeting In February, 1893,
shall be Issued by the commissioner OF laDor
statistics Immediately after the passage OF
this act. and he shall preside at said meet
ing until the State Society OF Labor ana
Industry shall have organized: Every as
gOciatiOn or society desiring 70 be repre-
sented in said meeting on the first Monday
in February, 1899, shall et least iive Gays
before said meeting certify to the COM
missioner of labor statistics, the election OF
its delegate or delegates The delegates
present az the time and place fixed for the
said FIRST meeting or any subsequent meet.
ing shall be deemed q quorum competent
TO transact all business TO be done by said
meeting under this act, and said state
Society OF Labor and Industry. shal! De
competent to adopt and amend constitu-
tIOn and bylaws and other regulations for
the government OF said society and TOT tne
promotion OF the purposes OF this act not
conflicting with the provisions Of this act
The delegates shall elect president, vice.
president. secretary, and assistant secre-
tary, which officials shall constitute 9
State Bureau OF Labor and Industry, and
said secretary shall be ex oftlcio commits
sioner OF the bureau Of labor and industry
and state factory Inspector, and said as
slstant secretary shall be ex oitclo assls,
the terms OF said officers shall be as fol-
lows. The president and Vice-president
ahall hold their ofRlces until the next annual
meeting or until the election OF their sue
cessors. the secretary and assistant secre-
tary shall hold their offices for two years
or until their successors are elected and
qualified, unless removed by two-thirus
majority vote present at the next annual
meeting The election OF the Secretary OK
iheState Society Of Labor and Industry, and
the assistant secretary OF said society snail
be certified. under oath, to the Secretary Of
state nv the president and vice-preSident
al the state Society of Labor and Industry.
and before entering upon the discharge OF
their duties said officers shall subscribe 70
3he usual oath Of office administered by the
Secretary OF State, and the official terms
OF office Of said secretary and assistant
secretary shall begin July the first, 1899
and biennlally thereafter except In case
az removal. When said delegates shall
have assembled on the first Monday IN
February, 1899, and shall have elected said
officers, as provided N this act. the state
Society OF Labor and Industry. shall be
deemed constituted, and the presiding Of
fcer.Ehall so declare, and the president and
vice-presldent elected shall thereupon as.
sumo the functions of their offices, ana
said society shall thereafter continue and
shall be known by said designation or
the state Society OF Labor and Industry
The present officials of the Bureau OF La
bor and Industrial Statistics shall continue
10 act as such officers and perform their
duties under this ace until the expiration OF
their terms OF Office and until the end OK the
Hscal year, June S0th, 1899. and the un-