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record of various candidates for
State officers we're discussed.
The record of Hon. P. NJ. Halves
was uncovered, and below you will
find how consistently he voted a.
gainst. the interests of our people
you and |.
We deem it our duty to give this
information to all labor organizations
in the State. The record was taken
direct from the Senate and House
Journals
Mr.. P. M. Halves, who is now a
candidate for Treasurer of the State
of Georgia, was a member OF the
House Of Representatives from Ebert
County from 1900 to 1905 and in
1897 an 1905 he represented his Dis
trict in the Senate of Georgia. During
the time he was a member of the
General Assembly, many bills of i'm
portance to laboring people were
acted On, and the Journals of the
House and Senate for these years
will be by inspection show that MIR.
Halves consistently voted against
what were known as labor bills.
Some of these measures are enumer-
ated below.
l. Mr.. Houston from Fulton
County was a labor representative,
and in the year 1900 introduced III
the House a measure to regulate
the working children in cotton
factories, and what was commonly
known as the Child Labor Law.
Mr.. Halves voted against this bill,
See House Journal 1900, Page 464.
2. The Child Labor Law having
been defeated in 1900, Mr.. Houston
was reelected to the House in 1902
and he again introduced his Child
Labor Bill, and Mr.. Halves again Vot-
ed aginast the bill and again it
was again defeated. See House
Journal 1903, Pages 1855 and 1874.
3. In 19C8a bill was introduced in
The Senate regulating the hours OF
railroad telegraph operators so as
to prohibit the working of them eX-
cept for a certain number of conse-
cutive hours. This bill passed the
Senate, but it did not fail to have
Mr.. HAYES oposit!on. There were
only five Senators who voted against
the measure and Mr.. H aWes was
one of the five. See Senate Journa
1908 acted on a bill which wa
known as the Employers Liability
Bill. The bill as introduced in thu
Senate was in the identical word
of the Act which was passed b!
Congress in April 1908. The Law
as passee by Congress of course
could only apply to interstate trains
and the bill as introduced in the
Senate made the law applicable
to common carrieas within the
State. The laboring people were
very much interested in this mea-
sure@as they should have been
-Mr. Halves voted against the bill
See Senate Journal 1908, Page 551.
5. The locomotive engineers of
the State were very much interested
in a bill which was introduced in
the House by Mr.. Tiff from Dougher-
ty County, requiring the railroads
of the State to equip thier locomo-
tives with electric head lights
When this bill came up for passage
in the Senate, Mr.. Halves opposed
it and voted against the measure.
See Senate Jouanal 1903, pages 1856
$40 and 701.
6. The labor people of the State
have always been opposed to Georgia
leasing out her couvicts to private
individuals, and thus Assembly had
the question Of disposition of the
convicts up before it. An extra
session was called by the governor
for the purpose of making proper
disposition of the convicts. They
were then leased to private individ-
uals and we're being principally
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