Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17
A FRIEND OF LABOR.

Theodore Roosevelt from the day
of his first entrance into public life
over twenty years ago, hes been a
consistent and unselfish friend of the
man who tolls. AS member of the
New York Assembly, as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, as Governor of
New York as President of the United
States he has never failed to show a
real loyalty to the true interests of
labor. In his first message to Con-
gress 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-reachimg ques-
tions which we group together when
we speak of ''labor."
His entire record as legislator and
executive is consistent with that ut
terance.
IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY.
AS 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 minors
and women in manufacturing estab-
lishments.
Safeguarding the lives and limbs of
factory operatives.
F Regulating wage rates of laborers
employed by municipalities.
Making employees preferred creditors.
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. 1.
H Establishing the bureau of labor
statistics.
To promote industrial peace.
For five-cent fare on the New York
City elevated railroad.
Incorporating the New York City
Free Circulating Library.
r. For free public baths in New York
City. go.
|. AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.
r While Governor of New York he ap-
proved the following measures:
f. Creating tenement house commits
sion.
lhs Regulating sweat-shop labor.
Empowering the factory inspector
Ito enforce the scaffolding law.
PR Directing the factory inspector to
enforce the act regulatingsla Dor hours
ION railroads. .
Making the eight-hour and prevail
ing rate f-wages laws effective.
Amending the factory act
o. Protecting employees at work on
buildings. .
~ Regulating the working time of
female employees.
f 81 Providing that stairways shall
be properly lighted.
AZ Prohibiting the operation of
dangerous machinery by children.
/. ~ Prohibiting women and minors
working on polishing or buffing 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.
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 recommend
ed legislation (which the legislature
failed to pass in regard to
Employers liability.
State control of employment offices.
State ownership of printing plant.
Devising means whereby free me-
chanics shall not be brought into COM
petition with prison labor.