The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt's Record For
Twenty Years.


Of his first entrance into public life
over twenty years ago, has been con-
sistent and unselfish friend of the
man who tolls. As a member of the
New York Assembly, as Civil Service
Commissioner, 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 loyal
ty to the true interests Of labor. In his
first message to Congress as Presi-
dent 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 questions
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
Assembly 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 mi
nors and women in manufacturing es-
adjustments.
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 a commission to examine
into the operation of the contract
system of employing convicts.
Establishing the bureau of labor
statistics.
To promote industrial peace.
For 5-cent 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
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
enforce the act regulating lobor hours
on railroads.
Making the eight-hour and prevail
laws effective.
Amending the factory act
O Protecting employees at work
on buildings.
(2) Regulating the working time Of
female employees.
60 Providing that stairways shall
be properly lighted.
(4) Prohibiting the operating Of
dangerous machinery by children.
(5) Prohibiting women and minors.
or polishing or buffing
wheels.
co. Providing for seats for wait
resses in hotels and restaurants.
Shortening the working hours of
drug clerks.
Increasing the salaries of New York
City schol teachers.
Extending to other engineers the
law licening New York City engineers
and making it misdemeanor for Vi
olating the same.
Licensing stationary engineers in
Buffalo.
Providing for the examination and
of horseshoers in cities.
Registration of laborers for munich
pal employment.
Relating to air brakes on freight
trains.
Providing means of the issuance of
quarterly bulletins by the bureau Of
labor statistics.
In addition to the foregoing while
Governor of New York he recommend
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