The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-12
HAVE BEEN
misunderstood.
That Is the Way Reed and Com
pany Feel About 1t.
PROPOSED CHILD LABOR LAW
Not Likely to Pass In the Race Of OpposI-
tion--stark County Mans Sentence
Cut Down--The Latest
From Columbus.
Special to News-Democrat.


Massillon, appear to think they have
not been quite understood; and their
motives not given Just consideration,
by Labor Commissioner John p. Jones,
Judging from his structures upon their
bill to amend the Davis child labor law.
However IL is said that they will rec
ommend' the representative having the
bill in charge to place the age limit at
which child may be employed, in shop
or factory, even on the affidavit Of the
parents that such child's labor. is nec-
essary to help to support the family.
at IA. The original draft of the bill
does not place the limit. The Davis
bill places the limit at 16 and Is for
girls and boys, respectively. Messrs.
Reed & Co. still maintain that their
highest motive is the amelioration of
the condition of the working classes
Three bills were presented in the
house Yesterday, the provisions of
which, in the aggregate, will give alb
solute protection to quail and pheasant
until November Z, 1904. After that date
the season for quail, (now open from
November 10 to December 15) and for
pheasant (now open from September 1
to December 15), shall open the day
after the November election and close
December 1. 1t also provides that the
season for dove, woodcock and squir-
rel, which opens July 4, and for grouse
and prairie chicken, which opens Sep
tember 1, shall close December /, so
that the season for all game shall close
December 1.
The annual meeting of the United
Mine Workers of Ohio has convened
here, and will last for several days.
The credential committee did not reach
a report, and it will be almost another
day before the convention gets down
to business. The chief or at least the
all important business of the conven-
tion will be the arranging of the wage
scale for the coming year. The present
36 and 3S cents for machine mining
the latter figure where the operators do
the drilling for the machine miners. BY
contract the present scale holds until
April 1: and, while an advance is not
likely to be asked prior to that time,
yet there is said to be pretty strong
faction in the convention who would
like to insist upon an earlier settlement I
of the scale, with some advantageous
adjustments in favor OF the miner,
since. the operators put the prices down .
from the scale figures a part of the
past year owing to dull trade. The
pick miners are a good deal dissatis-
fled with the low figure at which ma
chine mining is done, claiming it has q
tendency to pull down and keep down
the product of hand labor. They claim
that in many of the mines, where the
machine was first introduced, every adj
vantage was given to it, and it was
pushed in every way possible to make
high record Of work, before the price
of machine mining was fixed. And as
a result the record was abnormally
high and the mining price proportion
ately low.
A somewhat peculiar situation under
the laws on usages of the state Is de-
Veloped under State Treasurer I. B.
Cameron's removal from Lisbon to- this
city. He has rented a house on Neil
avenue, brought his household goods
here and set up housekeeping, expect
ing to make Columbus his home during
his official life. Nevertheless he told
the ews-Democrat correspondent to-
day that he proposed continuing to
vote in Columbiana county. He is
cha irpnpn nf hn inl,t
congressional committee and also OF
the Republican central committee OF
Columbiana county, both of which po-
sitions he expects to hold until his sue
cessor is chosen into Office. every
citizen Is entitled to vote in some one
place." said Mr.. Cameron, "and pre-
fer to hold my citizenship i'm Columbi-
ana rather than in Franklin county"
The fact that the Republican party
might have greater need Of him in
Franklin than in Columbiana county
does not seem likely to have much
weight in determining the question
with Mr.. Cameron.
a meeting of the executive board of
the Ohio Association of Democratic
clups was held here yesterday, to make
arrangements for the annual meeting
to be held in Columbus April 10, for a
proper observance Of Jefferson's birth
day. Charters were issued to A clubs,
and the association will doubtless make
its power felt in the coming national
campaign. The Young Mems Demo-
cratic club OF Columbus is making ar
rangements to entertain the delegates
fromlother cities at smoker the even.
ing fApril 12.
The regular annual meeting of the
legislative committee of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers was held
here today From Stark county, c. w.
coe. of lodge No. $50, Massillon, was
in attendance.
The state board of pardons held its
January meeting today. Among the
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