Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-08-04
A FRIEND OF LABOR.
Theodore R,osevelt's Record For
Twenty Years.

his tirSt entrance INTO puOllc lie over
twenty years ago, has been consist
ent and unseltsh friend of the man
who tolls. AS a member Of the New
York Assembly, as Civil Service Com
missioner, as Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, as Governor of New York,
as President of the United States he
has never failed to show real loyalty
to the true interests of labor. In his
first message to Congress as President
he said
The most vital problem with which
this country and for that matter the
whole civilized world, has to deal is
the. problem which has for one side
the betterment of social conditions,
moral and physical in large cities and
for another side the effort to deal
with that tangle Of far reaching cues
tionS which we group together Wheh
we speak Of ''labor."
His entire record as legislator and
executive is consistent with that ut
terance.
IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY.
AS a member of the New York AS
sembly he voted for the following
bills:
AboliShing tenement-house cigar
making in New York City.
Restricting child labor in factories
and workshops.
Regulating the labor hours of min
Ors and women in manufacturing es-
Establishments.
Safeguarding the lives and limbs OF
factory operatives.
Regulating wage rates of laborerS
employed by municipalities.
Making employees preferred credit
ors.
Providing for building mechanics
liens.
Prescribing the lien rights of work
ing women.
Protecting mechanics and laborers
engaged in sinking oil or gas wells.
Abolishing contract child labor in
reformatOry institutions.
Creating commission to examine
into the operation Of the contract
system of employing cOnvicts
Establishing the bureau OF labor
statistics.
To promote industrial peace.
For scent fare on the New York
City elevated railroad.
Incorporating the New York City
Free Circulating Library.
For free public baths In New York
City.
AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
While Governor of New York be
approved the following measures:
Creating tenement-house commits
sion.
Regulating sweat-shop labor.
Empowering the factory inspector
to enforce the scaffolding law.
Directing the factory inspector to
enforce the act regulating labor hours
on railroads.
Making the elght-hour and prevail
ing-rate-of- wages laws effective.
Amending the factory act
~ Protecting employees at work
on. buildings.
(2) Regulating the working hours
Of female employees.
81 Providing that stairways shall
be properly lighted.
(4) Prohibiting the operation Of
dangerous machinery by children.
(5) Prohibiting women and minors
working on polishing or butling wheels
(6) Providing for seats for wait
resses In hotels and restaurants.
Shortening the working hours Of
drug clerks.
Increasing the salaries.of New York
City school teachers.
Extending to other engineers the
law licensing New York City engi-
neers and making 1t a misdemeanor
for violating the same.
Licensing stationary engineers in
Buffalo.
Providing for the examination and
registration Of horseshOers in cities.
Registration Of labOrers for munich
pal employment.
Relating TO air brakes on freight
trains.
Providing means for the issuance Of
quarterly bulletins by the bureau of
labor statistics.
In addition to the foregoing, while
Governor Of New York he recon.
mended legislatlon( which the legisla.
ture failed to passl in regard to-
Employers liability.
State control Of employment offices.
State ownership OF printing plant.
Devlsing means whereby free me.
chanics lshall not be brought into
competition With prison labor,
As PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.