Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-03
DAWSON DEFENDS
WOMEN WORKERS
Resents Anonymous Letters In
tination Regarding Ability OF
Those HelpingWith Census
CHALLENGES LETTERS AUTHOR
CHALLENGES LETTERS AUTHOR
Dawson Says If He Can Come There
and Do as Much Work as the Fastest
Working Woman Employed He Will
Receive Double Pay-state Incorpor-
alton Laws.
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Des Moines, Aug. 3.-Secretary A. HI.
Dawson has received a letter from
some one who does not sign his name,
who believes that men hired in the
census work can do more than the
women. There are about forty en-
time and of these about two-thirds are
women. The other day there was pub
lished in this correspondence the fact
that the wages Of some of the employ
es was cut because of time they put In
soldering" With this story as the
text the writer of the anonymous letter
writes to Mr.. Dawson as follows:
Better get some men to do your
work, Mr.. Dawson. One man can do as
much work as seven of those, and did
do it during the tabulation of the 1905
census"
II will just challenge the writer Of
that letter to come in here and work
in competition with the women. If he
will do as much as they do he can have
pay equal to theirs and will give him
as much more. The fact is the fastest
workers we have on this work are
women. There is not a man in our en-
ploye who can keep up with the wom-
Ell. There is one woman on this tab
ulation work whom I have thought
ought to discharge because she has so
much time to soldier Yet she works
beside man who works hard all the
time and doesn't do as much work as
she does. Besides the soldering she
does she finds time now and then to
help some Of the rest OF them too. And
If the writer of that letter wants to
come in here and have a trial at it he
can have double pay If he will do as
much work as the fastest woman I
have"
Attorney General Mullan Isl consid-
ering the matter of the Incorporation
laws Of the state as applying to various
firms which are alleged to be doing
business in this state. The matter of
the Peterson Electric Light & Heat
ing Company as reported yesterday
and the Gladiator Gold Mine Company
Of this city has been turned over to
the attorney general for an investiga-
tion and decision and growing out of
these Investigations there will un-
doubtedly be recommended to the leg
islature next year that the corporation
laws Of the state be very materially
changed AT present a corporation can
come into Iowa and do business some-
times for months and the office Of the
secretary Of state never know anything
about 1t. It is usually only by some
one making an inquiry that the dis
covery is made that a corporation is
doing business illegally.
1t is proposed to ask the legislature
to create department of corporations
in the office Of the secretary of state
much as the banking department exists
in the auditors office and to place IN
charge OF this department e. man au-
thorized to keep supervision Of all
corporations. It Is proposed to require
all corporations to make annual reports
to the secretary of state. 1t was stated
TODAY at the office of the secretary of
state that there are undoubtedly a
great many corporations that have in
creased their capital stock in fact
without making any report to the Sec
retary of state and that there are any
number of corporations which have
gone out Of business and still have
their articles of incorporation on file
with the secretary of state. The con-
Germs either become defu9ct or volun-
tarily quit business without any report
to the secretary of state.
1t was recently represented to the
office of the secretary of state that the
Gladiator Gold Mining Company, Of
this city, was doing business illegally
and had not filed its articles of incor-
poration. 1t is a Montana corporation.
A letter was sent to the company's
office in the Iowa Loan and Trust
Company building and an official of the
corporation called at the office of the
secretary of state and declared that his
firm was doing no business in this state
and had not done any here. 1t is a $4,-
100000 concern and he claimed they
hadn't money enough to pay the filing
fee for the certified copy Of the articles
of Incorporation. He claimed that if
they had to make the filing they would
have to quit business.
A little further investigation has
been made by the office OF the secre-
tary of state. 1t has beer discovered
that in suit in the Polk county dis
trict court evidence was introduced
last summer to show that vast
amount of the stock of this gold mine
company was sold in this state altho
the official of the company represented
that none had been sold. The case has
been turned over to the attorney gen
eral and it is possible that it may be
decided to force the company to either
file certified copy of it's articles OF
incorporation or else leave the state,
since even if it sells no stock here 1t
continues to have Its office here and to