The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-02-10

state boards before being qualified to
work at the professions or trades.
Within the past few months steps TO
procure similar state boards have been
taken by the auctioneers, butchers,
electrical workers and others. Now
we are informed comes the members
of an Ionia county grange with resolu-
tons asking for the creation of state
board to examine and license farm la
borers. The ''wbereases'. of these res
buttons set up that nearly all trades
and occupations are protected by eX-
aiming boards, and that the farmer
has no protection from unskilled labor
in the field and among the stock. As
previously intimated it has not yet
been definitely ascertained just how
much seriousness there is to this latest
demand. 1t may possibly be sly
method adopted by these Ionla county
farmers to call attention to the grow
ing tendency to create these boards
and commissions. 1t should be said in
this connection that many of these eX-
aiming boards are self supporting,
some Of them turning a balance into
the general fund Of the state after pay
ing all their expenses, the license and
examination fees collected providing
for all these things, so that the ex-
penses of these boards do not figure
in the state tax levy. In the last
analysis, Of course, the money all
comes out of the pocket Of the citi=
zen.
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Under the leadership of the Manu-
facturers and Jobbers' club Of Lansing,
the manufacturers and shippers of
Michigan are lining up in support of a
bill designed to secure to shippers bet
ter treatment at the hands of the rail
road companies. Under present condi-
tons the railroads get altogether the
best end of the deal, both coming and
going. The bill prepared by commit
tee appointed by the Lansing organiza-
ton provides that within forty eight
hours after receiving application from
shipper, the company must furnish
said shipper with the desired car or
cars, or pay fine of 81 for every
day it Is delinquent. The shipper, OIL
the other hand, is required to load the
car within forty eight-hours or pay
similar penalty. Another provision of
the bill is that the company must
within forty-eight hours after loading
switch the car and get it on the first
fifty miles of its Journey and there
after transfer it at least fifty miles
every twenty-four hours, or pay
penalty of So for each days delay in
transit. The present allowance of the
Michigan Car Service association is
forty eight hours for unloading a car.
but the proposed law extends this time
to seventy-two hours and requires the
company to make greater allowance if
the weather is such that the goods
cannot be unloaded without damage.
Prompt Settlement OF Claims.
The bill furthermore seeks to regu-
late switching charges and to provide
for the prompt settlement of claims
against railroad companies for dam
aged goods. An instance of alleged
unjust practices at present INDUCED in
by the railroads in the matter of
demurrage charges Is related by q
lluIulucluIpT WHO rcCcHlly re-
ceived a shipment Of extra long TIM
bers from the south. These timbers
were necessarily loaded through the
end doors Of the two cars and could be
only through such doors. In
placing the cars on the siding the
company placed the cars with the ends
the doors together. 1t was,
of course, impossible to unload the cars
while they were in this situation, and
the car service association undertook
to charge the shipper for four days
demurrage for failure to unload. The
car service association is distinct from
the railroad companies under the pres
ent arrangement, so that the shipper |
gets no satisfaction when he appeals |
to the companies for relief in cases |
Of this nature.
To Develop Dairy Industry.
Dairy and Food Commissioner Bird |
is about ready to enter upon a cam
paign for the enactment Of laws which |
will go long way toward developing |
the dairy industry in this state Mr.. |
Bird spent several days recently in |
with the dairy commits |
sioners Of the state Of Wisconsin and |
Minnesota where the industry is do |