Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-12

hauled brick, stone or any other COM
modify or goods of any nature had
to pay SO a quarter, but those hauling
sand, dirt and gravel paid nothing. 1t
is evident to anyoTfe that this was un-
Just for the compensation for hauling
dirt, sand or gravel is just as great
as for hauling stone or any other ma
terial and this joker was placed there
for a purpose just prior to the last
election. In the license ordinance, as
published March Is, 1909 this exemp-
! tion did not appear, but in the or
dinance published October %, 1909, the
! exemption does appear. The new or
| dinance abolishes this discrimination
| against teamsters other than those
hauling dirt, sand and gravel
LAUNDRY MEN PAY LESS
"As to the laundry men-will any
one believe that the laundry men are
in coalition with the bankers and cleo
trio light corporations, when an exam
nation of the new ordinance shows
that the laundry men will pay con-
siderably less than under the old ordi-
nance? Under the old ordinance laun-
dries running up to five wagons paid
So a month; those running up to ten
wagons, paid $3.50 a month; those run
ming up to fifteen wagons paid $40 a
month, and laundries running over
fifteen wagons paid SIS month.
Now, the committee in revising the
license ordinance took the stand that
only those persons, firms and corpora
tions enjoying special privileges should
paw a license Therefore, from the
standpoint of the number of wagons
used In the delivering of laundered ar
ticles, the laundries should not pay any
license at all any more than the dry
goods store or grocery store should
pay license upon their delivery wagons,
but the laundries are required to have
q permit from the board of health, and
the board of health is required to in
spect them; therefore the laundries
should pay to the city license suffi-
GENTLY large to reimburse the city for
the cost of such inspection. Conse-
duently the license was changed so
that all laundries must pay $5 month,
no matter how many wagons they OPP
crate, for the reason that the license
is based on the cost of inspection and
not on the number of wagons used.
1t should be noted in this connection,
however that only laundries delivering
by wagons are compelled to pay
license.
FALSE RUMOR CIRCULATED
'This provision is made for the pur-
pose of protecting the washerwoman
who delivers by hand, or who does fam
ily washing. ! have heard consider
able criticism from several sources,
such criticisms being based upon the
fact that the poor washerwomen We're
going to have to pay the city license.
This was simply another rumor which
had its origin in the distorted imagina-
ton of some enemy of the admlnlStra-
ton. Now, as I stated before, who can
believe that the laundry men of the
city Of Los Angeles are so foolish as to
invoke the referendum on an ordinance
which reduces the amount of their
license only to keep in effect the ordi-
nance which at the present time is
costing them several times as much as
II will in the future?
$50 on through the entire ordinance
Conscientious effort was put forth by
the members of the committee for at
least six weeks In an endeavor to re-
wise an unfair and inequitable ord1-
nance into one that at least had SEM
blance of justice and equity.
'I unhesitatingly state that it is my
firm conviction that the license ordi-
nance as passed by the council is as
near lust and fair as a license ordi-
nance can be. To say that am abso-
lutely satisfied with 1t would be
misstatement, but I do say that 1t is
much superior to the ordinance now in
effect which 1t will repeal. To any of
the citizens of Los Angeles to whom a
petition is presented calling attention
to the referendum vote Of the people
on this ordinance, would respectfully
request that they obtain copies of the
two ordinances and carefully compare
them. and on the decision reached after
such comparison I arp perfectly willing
to rest the sweeping assertion that they
will find the new ordinance was con-
ceived in justice, founded upon equity,
and results in an increase of welfare
to vast majority of license payers"