The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-08-05

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 exc
cutive is consistent with that utterance.
AS member of the New York assem-
bly, he voted for the following bills:
Abolishing tenement-house cigar max
ing in New York city.
Restricting child labor in factories and
workshops.
Regulating the labor hours of min
lishments.
Safeguarding the lives and limbs of
factory operatives.
Regulating, wage rate of laborers en-
ployed by municipalities.
Making employees preferred creditors.
Providing for building mechanics
liens.
Prescribing the lien rights of work
ing women.
Protecting mechanics and laborers en-
gagged in sinking oil or gas wells.
Abolishing contract child labor in re-
formatory institutions.
Creating commission to examine in
to the operation of the contract system
of employing convicts.
Establishing the bureau or taking 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.
While governor of New York he ap-
proved the following measures:
Creating tenement-house commission
Regulating sweatshop labor.
Empowering the factory inspector to
enforce the scaffolding law.
Making the eight hour and prevailing
rate of wages laws effective.
Directing the factory inspector to en-
! force the act regulating labor hours on
railroads.
One. Protecting employees at work
on buildings.
Two. Regulating the working time OF
female employees.
Three. Providing that stairways shall
be properly lighted.
Four. Prohibiting the operation OF
dangerous machinery by children.
Five. Prohibiting women and min.
ors working on polishing or buffing
wheels.
Six. 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 a misdemeanor for violating
the same.
Licensing stationary engineers in Buff.
falo.
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 recommended
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 he
has signed the following bills:
Renewing the Chinese exclusion act
and extending its provisions to the island
territory of the United States.
Prohibiting the employment of Mon
golian labor on irregulation work and
providing that eight hours shall consti-
tute days labor on such project.
Abolishing slavery and involuntary
servitude in the Philippine Islands, vio-
lation of the act being punishable by
forfeiture of contracts and fine of not
less than $4,000.
Protecting the lives of employees in
coal mines in territories by regulating
the amount of ventilation and provid.
ing that entries, etc., shall be kept well
dampened with water to cause coal dust
to settle.
Exempting from taxation in the Dis
trict of Columbia household belongings
to the value of 1000, wearing apparel,
libraries, school books, family portraits,
and heirlooms.
Requiring proprietors of employment
offices in the District of Columbia to
pay license tax of 500 per year.
Creating the department of commerce
and. labor and making its head cabi-
net officer.
Increasing the restrictions upon the