Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-11
LABOR and INDUSTRY
Third Part OF the Industrial
Commissions Final Report
Made Public.
1t Treats Of Labor, Taxation. and
Irrigation.-The Eight
Hour Day.
Report Favors That System Gen.
Report Favors That System Gen.
erally..An Income Tax
Recommended.

of the industrial commissions fina
report has been made public. 1t treat
of labor, immigration, taxation and irri
CATION. The commission takes stroni
grounds upon two important question:
now before the country. 1t insists tina
corporations should be taxed upon TIL
value of their franchises, as determined
by the value of the stocks and bonded
debts, and it holds that injunction!
should never be issued in labor troubl,
except after the most careful examina
ton by a tribunal thoroughly conipe.
tent"
Regarding labor, the following rec.
concentrations are made
Congress having no power to legis-
late directly upon the subject, II Is rec
commended that the several states es-
-tablish uniform hours of labor and also
specially regulate the hours of employ
snent of persons between the age of IL
and 81" The working day of all pub
lie employment, the report says. should
he eight hours, in the hope that 1t would
bring private employment to the same
standard. The period of work in I'M
derground mines should be eight hours
day. 1t is recommended that con-
aress, under it's powers as to inter-
state commerce, prevent any person
under is years being employed as a tel-
tgiaph operator on railroads: that all
engineers and switchmen should submit
TO an examination for color blindness;
that it should be misdemeanor for an
engineer or switchman to be intoxicat-
ed while on duty. The report says the
state should adopt law providing that
labo rshould be paid in cash or cash
orders without Discount and not in
goods or due bills, and that company
stores should not be allowed. Provis-
ions should be made for fair weighing
at mines.
Regarding injunction the commission
Gays:
The question of enforcement OF the
labor contract by Injunction or con-
tempt in equity process is a very diff
cult one, mainly SO made by the abuses
which have arisen from injunctions
{. carelessly issued by learned judges of
inferior courts in states which confuse
chancery and comomn law Jurisdiction.
The injunction is a high prerogative
writ, and should be awarded only after
the most careful examination by tri-
bunal thoroughly competent"
A statute to prevent intimidation at
federal elections is recommended. Con-
gress should legislate to prevent the
importation and sale of convict-made
goods from one state into another with
scut the consent of the state into which
the goods are imported, or where they
; are sold. On the subject of railway la
Dor, which the report says is undoubt-
eddy covered by the interstate powers
of congress, the commission is of the
opinion that congress should adopt
consistent code of law regulating all
matters concerning employment in that
industry.
The recommendations of the commits
sion on the subject of immigration
are:
General revision and codification of
the immigration laws Including such
verbal changes as are necessary to
make the existing principles of legisla-
+ ton effective.
Increasing the head tax from 81 to
! So.
Exclusion and deportation of anarch-
lists.
Renewal and continuance of the Chi
nese exclusion laws.
AS to taxation the commission rec
Ommends:
That the states abandon the general
property tax and raise their revenues
by taxes upon corporations. inheri-
Z tances and incomes, supplemented
I. when necessary by indirect taxation.
Z That corporations, public service and
other, be taxed by state boards. at
rats fixed by the legislation, upon the
value of their franchises assessed ac-
cording to the actual value Of their
stocks and bonded debts, less the value
of their real estate as assessed locally.
and that real estate owned by them be
taxed locally as other real estate Is
taxed.
That the system of levying graduated
taxes upon fnheritances be adopted by
: thase state which do not now employ
it and that it be abandoned by the
] federal government.
That taxes upon corporations, ,nher-
itances. etc, be supplemented bya grad
uated tax upon incomes, to be levied
and collected by the state.
That notes. mortgages and other like
property be taxed by the state at full
value, but at low fixed rates. thru APP
propriate listing and recording sys-
TENS
Regarding Irrigation. the commission
recommends that congress enact laws:
! To provide for national control of
sources of water supply upon which
two or more states may depend for ir-
rigation.
To provide for the construction Of
storage reservoirs and irrigation works
by which to utilize the water supply of
. the arid regions to the greatest posi-
BILE extent; to reclaim said arid lands
of the United Staes, reversing control
of the distribution of water for irri-
cation to the respective states and
!. territories. and the holding of such
lands for actual settlers under home-
. stead entry.
LEE ON NATIONS FUTURE.
All the Clouds Have Rolled Away and