Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-19
LITTLE TALKS WITH men IN
OREGON WHO ARE DOING THINGS
IS A ROOM WITH ONE PRESS IN IT A FACTORY?

II has been held and decided by the state bureau OF labor
statistics that any one-pesS printing office Is act9Y
The effort being made to compel all printing offices 10
pay ten dollars of back taxes for inspection Of their factory
As there are between three and four hundred newspaper
offices and job offices In the state and this IS collected from
us nuue into for few moments, Who will get this money?
anyone in the legislature had proposed such an inspection
and such tax the factory inspection act would never nave
become a law
But the factory inspection law was aimed at large manu-
featuring establishments SawmlS, wooen mills, machine
shops etc.
was aimed to protect life against dangerous machinery
AT first It's provisions were not enforced against the One
Press country printing offices The commissioner was work.
The commissioner of labor statistics believes in holding his
Job along the line Of the least resistance
He would not have dared make demand for an inspection
Tee from the One-PreSS country printing otceS because they
are in no sense workshops or factories and many have not
even payroll
The Capital Journal has been running its 0ne-PeSS work.
shop for twenty years. and not boy man or woman has ever
so much as had finger mashed although there have been
several cases OF employees getting mashed on one another
and marrying as result OF their workshop experiences
Now in the year OF Lord 1909 comes the honorable
commissioner and tries collect two years back pay for the
years 1908 and 1907.
This ten dollars is to come out Of the pocket of every One
Press printing office the state demand that is graftpwe
and simple.
away from every poor devil who has to turn the crank or pull
the lever OF his OnePreSS ekWaer printing office, and Vel
dollars each year for all time to come for denomination
Brothers OF the PRESS shall we submit to this mpositon2l
Are we be caSed factories at the pleasure of the
hgh-muo amuck OF the bureau Of statistics at five punks
per year?
When you let the camel get his head under the tent how
short time before the animal lntudeS his whole body2
Steps to be taken through the district attorneys t0l
collect from each and every 0nePeSS pntShop of this state
this ten dollars
This office Is in receipt of the following letter from the
DuDlc prosecutor who is requested to collect the
The labor commissioner has notified me that you
nave tailed TO comply with chapter 158 of the laws
VI l9OI OF this state, providing for the protection
and health OF employees OF factories, mills. work
stores, m
10 the treasurer OF the state OF Oregon the annual
fee Tor the last two years, which Is So for each year.
as required by Sec, I Of said act viii you kindly
send your remittance for the full amount TO the
office OF the secretary OF Sate2"
Inc commissioner OF labor statistics is doing Just what
many olher commissioners are dong-extendng its functions
and multiplying its offices.
he newspapers should fight this proposition to finish
ana should make war on the aggregation of similar pulling
schemes. ~ 20 F0
The business Of Oregon are bed for high state taxes
'or high county taxes and for multiplicity Of taxes like the
above that enough 10 create spirit of rebellion In the
hearts OF less spirited people,
Inc press OF the state should above all resent this demand
placed IN me hands Of the district attorneys and probably to
be followed up by indictments for violating state law
Let the newspaper and the printers of the state unite
10 teSt thS law instead OF paying this tax on their industry
II this extension OF the factory inspection tax will stand next
year peanut roasers will be included.
Inc gradual extension OF the law in this factory and work
shop act Is noticeable. ~ - II
AT fIrS II was confined to big concerns.
was next extended 10 warehouses and docks and all places
where machinery Is employed.
Now II Is sought to extend Il to stores and ali buildings
where elevators are employed,
The fees In all cases five 10 ten dollars and the next
thing viii be to extend to creamees and ice cream ireezerS
and wndmllS.
Is easy to see how by extending its scope any such sys