Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-27
WARBUR7OV
and LABOR
SEATTLE PCST.INTElL!GENCER
SHOWS UP RECORD.

RECORD or STATE cEMeTE
SHOWS HiM IN OPPOSITION TO
hti, BILLS IN INTEREST @
WORKiNcMEN.
stanton Warbun,m is claiwin~
then tall.iae 10 the laburius u en-. tl8l
na 0as their freieud Vhiie 0em-
er Ct the state senate. he fact Oi
he matter is that an exhaustive
carch OF the journals will show that
'-r. Nar5urton voted agains- Amos.
every bill that had for it's object the
1'nelioration of the condition OF The
.abOring classes.
While serving as member of the
state senate in 1901 he was respon-
sibe for the passage of the jury law
whereby no person could serve on the
iury unless he be a householder or a
freeholder. (See senate journal. 100
naee 1852 The object of this law was
to disquaify a laboring man tfo.,
serving on The jury.
House bin No.29 was a bill estah-
fishing the number of hours to con
5ti;ute a days work in underground
lode or quartz mine. The bill va:
passed by the house and sent to the
senate. and there referred to the con-
'ittee on mines and mining, Of which
M. Warburton was the second ran.
ing member. TIE bill never found is
way out of this committee. See
senate journal, 1903, page 227D
Senate bill No. zoe, by Senator
Graves, was an act defining the mn F.;
er's liability for injuries received by
is servant in the course of his EN-
plOyment. and the bill also defined
Who We're feiowservants. (See sen
Ste journal, 1903, page 270). Sec
icn of this act is as follows:
Section 2. Employees Of a commcn
master shall not be deened to tl
felloW-servants of each other when
hey are engaged in different classes
# labor. or departments CT setvicc
or when the one has authority, con
tr0l, supervision, or the power Of di
rection. over the other, or over the
he pace O. the appliances Wit
which, such work is being done. o.
vtere the one is 50 situated with re
spect to the other, either by reason
f the nature Of the work, or the place
in WI ich it IS performed, that he can
not guard against the negligence OF
he ether.
Secion Of The bill is as follows
"Section 3. No contract between
-,aster and servant based upon tho
contingency CT the injury or death oi
+; hn liability n
he raster for GaWa"cs under the
provisions Cf this act, shall be valic
- erf0rcio'e.'
Tho hill. was referred to the comni.
co on ,ahor and labor statistics. o+
r-tict N1r Iyorburtor was chairman
rbn ranor+ on the hill Was as fol
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(See senate journal. 1903. page 514l
If Mr.. Warhurton was such a friend
Of labor as he now claims to have
been. il is rather remarkable that q
bill as imnortant as this to the labor
ing element was not reported back
10 the senate with the recommends
ton that it DO pass. Few branches
of the law gives rise to more confu
sion than the fell0w-servart doctrine
We have no statue in this state de
fning fellow.servants and our own
court is in the greatest confusion on
this branch of the law. Had this act
passed. then the question Of who are