Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-04
TIE NEW LABOR BILL.
a Measure to Come Before Next
General Assembly.
STATE SOCIETY OF LABOR INDUSTRY
With Power TO Elect Secretary who
Shalt Succeed TO the Powers and
Duties of Commissioner of
Labor-,The Bill.

Among the bills which will be up
before the next general assembly of
the state of Iowa, will be one entitled
an act to create state society of la
Dor industry, with power to elect a
secretary, who shall succeed TO the
i powers and duties OF the commissioner
Of labor statistics and be ex-officio
state factory inspector, and an assist
ant secretary, who shall be assistant
commissioner of labor statistics andsto
collect, report and disseminate statis-
tics of labor aud industry, and repeal
ing chapter 8, of title 10, code of 1897
The following is a copy of the bill:
BE II enacted by the General Assembly
q of the State of Iowa:
Section l. Whenever seven or more
uaborers, working men, miners of coal,
1ron, zinc or other minerals for wages,
mechanics, railway laborers or other
Wage-earners who are now organized
or shall hereafter organize as a labor
association or labor society, in any
county, city or other municipality in
fhe state of Iowa, for the purpose of
collecting, studying and disseminating
statistics of labor and industry, or for
the investigation of economic, CONNER
cial or industrial pursuits, or for the
improvement and promotion of the va
fious branches of labor represented by
such associa tions or societies, or for
other purposes hereinafter mentioned
IN this act, said association
OF society shall be author
Ned to choose one delegate for the
hrst fifty members or fraction thereof,
and one delegate for each additional
400 members or majority fraction
thereof, to represent such association
or society in the annual meeting of the
state society of Labor and industry,
and said delegate or delegates shall be
duly certified under oath as elected on
the above basis, by the presiding off
GER and secretary of such association or
society; such delegate or delegates
4hall be admitted to and become mem
beTs of the state society of Labor and
Industry until the second Monday in
May next following, or until their sue
eessors shall have been chosen and adj
Mitted;s provided, that such association
9r society shall have been organized at
least ninety days, and that the officers
ot said association or society shall have
been organized at least ninety days,and
4 That the officers of said association or
society shall have made a report to the
commissioner of labor statistics for the
previous year upon the labor and in
dustrial conditions, and otherwise shall
have answered such interrogatories
prppounded by the commissioner of la
Dor statistics in his annual blanks; and
4 further provided, that at any time any
such association or society may recall
it's delegate or delegates by choosing
their successors as herein provided for.
Sec. 2.-On the second Monday in
\ May, 1900, and every year thereafter,t the
i delegates elected to said state society
OF Labor and Industry shall assemble
at the state capitol, at an hour and
place to be fixed by the secretary in his
7 annual call therefor, said call to be sent
to each association or society at least
thirty days before such assembling;
provided that the call for the first
meeting in May, 1900, shall be issued
BY the commissioner of labor statistics
Immediately after the passage Of this
act, and he shall preside at said meet
ing until the state society of Labor and
Industry shall have organized. Every
association or society desiring to be,
represented in said meeting on the sec
ond Monday in May, 1900, shall at least
five days before said meeting certify
to the commissioner of labor statistics
the election of its delegate or delegates.
The delegates present at the time and.
place fixed for the said first meeting
or any subsequent meeting shall be
deemed a quorum competent to trans
net all business to be done by said
meeting under this act, and said state
society of labor and industry shall be
competent to adopt and amend con-
stitution and bylaws and other regula-
lions for the government of said socie-
ty and for the promotion of the pur-
poses of this act, not conflicting with
the provisions of this act. The dele
gates shall elect president, vice presi-
dent, secretary and assistant secretary,
which officials shall constitute state
bureau of labor and industry, and said
secretary shall be ex officio commits
sioner Of the bureau of labor and in
dustry and state factory inspector, and
said assistant secretary shalItbe ex off
clio assistant commissioner of sand bu-
reau, and the term of said officers shall
be as follows: The president and vice
president shall hold their offices until
the next annual meeting or until the
& election of their successors; the secre-
tary and assistant secretary shall hold
their Offices for two years or until their
successors are elected and qualified, I'M
less removed by two-thirds majority
vote present at the next annual meet
ing. The election of the secretary of
the state society of Labor and Indus
try, and the assistant secretary of said
society, shall be certified, under oath
to the secretary of state by the presi-
dent and vice president of the state
society of Labor and Industry, and
before entering upon the discharge of
their duties, said officers shall sub
scribe to the usual oath OF Office adj
ministered by the secretary of state,
and the official terms of Office of said
secretary and assistant secretary shall
begin July 1, 1900, and bienially there
after, except in case of removal. When
said delegates shall have assembled on
the second Monday in May, 1900, and
shall have elected said officers as here
in provided, the state society of Labor
and Industry shall be deemed consti-
tuted, and the presiding officer shall
SO declare, and the president and vice
r,rasidant elected shall therelIpon as