The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-08-05
A FRIEND OF LABOR.
Theodore Roosevelt's Record For
Twenty Years.

| twenty years ago, mas been cOnSlsten
and unsel6sh friend of the man VIII
, tolls. AS member of the New Yor
Assembly, as Civil Service Commission
err as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
as Governor of New York, as Presiden
of the United States he has never faile,
to show real loyalty to the true in
terests of labor In his first message t,
Congress as President he said:
THE most vital problem with which thi
country and for that matter the whole ciyilize,
world, has TO deal is the problem which has 10
one side the betterment OF social conditions
moral and physical, in large cities and To-
another side OF the effort to deal with tina
tangle of far reaching questions which we
group together when we speak of labor"
His entire record as legislator and ex
ecutive is consistent with that utter.
ance.
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 establish
ments.
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 re-
formatory institutions.
Creating commission to examine
into the operation of the contract sys-
tenn of employing convicts.
Establishing the bureau of labor sta
tistics.
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 he APP
proved the following measures:
Creating a tenement-house commits
sion.
Regulating sweat shop labor.
Empowering the factory inspector to
enforce the scaffolding law.
Directing the factory inspector to en-
force the act regulating labor hours on
railroads.
Making the eight-hour and prevail
ing rate wages laws effective.
Amending the factory act
Q) Protecting employees at work on
buildings.
(s) Regulating the working time of
female employees
(3) Providing that stairways shall be
properly lighted.
(4 Prohibiting the operation of dan
gerous machinery by children.
(5) Prohibiting women and minors
working on polishing or buffing wheels.
(6) Providing for seats for mattresses
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 engineers and
making it misdemeanor for violating
the same.
Licensing stationary engineers in
Buffalo.
Providing for the examination and
of horseshoers in cities.
Registration of laborers for munich
pal enjoyment.
Relating to air brakes on freight
trains.
IiOfiuiuS lueduS lOr tIle 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.
AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
AS President of the United States he
has signed the following bills:
!, Renewing the Chinese-exclusion act
and extending its provisions to the is
and territory of the United States.
Prohibiting the employment of Mon
yolian labor on irrigation works and
that eight hours shall consti-