The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-18
BARBER'S UNIQUE BILL,
Measure Which is Proposed for Pas
sage in GearEia

session of the Geenral Assembly is at
tracing no little attention through
out the state, because of the manner
in which it has been gotten UP. Charles
Bolden. local boss barber. started the
agitation and sent out the letters that
have attracted attention.
Bolden had a circular printed to be
sent to the senators and representa-
tives throughout the state, and it is
this document that has caused com
ment. The letter is unique in its
wording and general get-up. Follow
ing is the letter sent to the senators:
We the undersigned boss BARRIERS of
Savannah, Ca, humbly ask you to as
sist our Honorable j. Ferris Cam,
senator of the First district, Chatham
county. in getting the BARRIERS State
bill passed at the next session of the
Georgia Senate when it comes from the
House in October, 1901.
Section l. That no barber nor per-
son, copartnership, corporation shall
be permitted to open or conduct bar
Der shop unless he holds a regular
qualified certificate stating he has
served as an apprentice at the barber
trade for a period of no less than three
years.
Section 2. The boss whom he served
under must give him a certificate stat
ing how many years he has served in
his shop as an apprentice.
Section 8. To provide for villages
and towns where there are no more
than one barber shop, the said barber
when leaving said village or town,
must get a qualified certificate from
| the merchants of the said village or
| town, stating how many days, weeks,
months or years he was doing barber
business there.
| Section 4. All BARRIERS leaving cities
! and towns to go to any other place IN
the state to work, he must get a GER
tificate from his last boss stating how
long he has worked for him.
Section 5. If barber leaves a vii
lage or town to go to another village
or town to work where there is but
one barber shop, the barber of the said
village or town must examine said
barber.
| Section g. If there is no barber IN
said village or town the merchants
have the right to examine all barpers
leaving cities and large towns coming
there to work.
Sec. Z. Each city and town in the
| state must have an examination Doaru'
In towns where there are but two or
more barber shops the examination
| board must consist of two or more
bosses and three or more journeymen,
and for large cities five bosses and
four journeymen.
Sec. g. If the barber should pass
! the examination board successfully, the
chairman of the board must give a
certificate that he has; signed by the
| whole board!
Sec. 9. One week after the bill has
been passed, in each large city in the
state, the boss BARRIERS must call q
meeting and call a president, vice pres
ident, recording secretary, correspond
ing secretary, treasurer and finance
committee, consisting of two boss bar
bers, and three journeymen and an ex-
animation board of five bosses and -four
| iourneymen. The treasurer must give
a bond 30 days after election. The bond
not to exceed (S100) one hundred dol
lars.
Sec. 10. Where there are two oil
more than two barber shops, they mus
select two or more bosses and one Of
more journeymen to serve on the ex
animation board for examining bar
bers and for large cities, five or more
bosses and four or more journeymen.
employ a barber to go to every shoI
in the city and take the name and ad
dress of each boss and journeyman anc
report the list to each boss twice
week, viz, Monday and Friday; anc
the said barber to correspond witt
every other city and get the repor
once a week, and if any barber SHOULD
leave the boss or be discharged, the
same shall be reported to each boss
and the said BARRIERS wages to be from
SO to S12 each week. Each Boss anc
journeyman must give from 10 to Il
cents every week to make up the bar
ber's wages who is employed by the
examina ton board. Where there arr
cities that cannot pay as much, they
can make the price to suit themselves
A committee of two bosses and thret
iourneymen must serve to go to eacf
city and said committee must collec
from 10 to Is cents or more from eacf
boss and journeyman to defray the ex
penses of the barber who is hired ant
to keep stationery on hand for the wei
fare of BARRIERS Each boss must serv'
on this committee until every barbe
in the state has served. That the ex
animation board must appoint the com
mittee to serve, and to hire and dis
charge the barber whose business is Il
go around visiting other BARRIERS. Tn,
said committee must go around eacl
Monday at $3.50 a. m. to collect from
the bosses and journeymen. The saiC
committee must report the same to thu
chairman of examination board anC
turn over the amount and list of thos'
who have paid. If any journeyman fai
to pay. the boss must deduct from hi
percentage that night and report thu
same.
Sec. 12.-Every village and towI
can get the report from every larg,
city they wish by applying for it t.
the chairman of the Examination
Board. Any citizen can get the re
port from any barber shop in any cit.
or town il he wishes it, If the saiC
boss fails to give him the report, h.
shall be fined $500.
Sec. 10. The barber who is hired b.
the Examination Board must report t,
the said board any person he finds co
operation. or partnership, or in connec
ton with barbershop, the said person
shall be subject upon conviction il
City Court to a fine not exceeding so
or imprisoned not exceeding 80 days
or both. The said barber must repor
the same to the Examination Board
and If he finds any one holding no reg
ular qualified certificate to show tina
he is barber he must report tn
same to the Examination Board, an
II he fails to report the same he is en-
titled to the same fine, and if the Elk