The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
PUT END TO FAKES
Kansas Employment Agents Will
Be Regulated.
That Is If House Accepts Senate
Bill.
MUST FIND A JOB.
the Fee Paid Is to Be
Returned.
WOrkmen Liability Bill Now Be-
fore Senate.

| rake emplOym bureaus Will nnO
little comfort in the Ganse bill, which
passed the senate this morning and is
aimed at the regulation of the job f1nd-
ing concerns. In the first place, the
bill provides a good stiff license and
states in unvarnished language that
any company that promises to find a
person a position must deliver the
goods
The house a week ago injected a
few amendments in Senator Ganse's
bill and removed several of its most
prominent and shining tusks. Even
then the Emporia lawyer felt that the
| bill was of sufficient force to make the
employment bureaus be good and he
placed his stamp of approval on the
document.
"This law is greatly needed in this
state" said Ganse in discussing his
| bill, land it will insure needed pro-
| lection to the needy who som etimes
find it necessary to appeal to the en-
| ployment agencies for work. l know
of one instance in Topeka where two
men went to an agency, paid it SO or
| 81 apiece for finding them a position.
| The men were sent to Winfield. When
they reach I'd that town there was no
| job for them. They were without
money and under our existing law had
no recourse"
Under this bill if a registration fee
| is charged for receiving or filing ap-
| plicationS for employment or help, the
fee shall not exceed 81, for which a
duplicate receipt is required. In case
the applicant does not obtain situa-
tion or employment through the agent
within three days, then the agent is
required to return the fee. Any Ii
| censed agency shall not publish or
cause to be published any false or
fraudulant notice or give false infor-
nation or make false promises in re-
! lation to work or employment to any
applicant and a fine is prescribed for
making false entries in the registry
required to be kept under the super
vision of the state employment agent.
These books must at all times be open
and subject to the inspection of the
state agent or his assistants and VIOLA
tors of the act are punishable by a
than six months Imprisonment in the
county Jail for each violation of the
act.
At 2:3O this afternoon the senate
took up the consideration of the work
mems compensation act and the en-
ployers' liability bill. Both measures
are being considered at the same time
and the greater part of the afternoon
session will be devoted to a discussion
of the bills. These bills were hammered
into shape in the labor committee room
after a number of lively sessions. The
labor unions have maintained lobby
in Topeka since the legislature con-
vened and it is to secure relief along
the lines prescribed in the two bills
that this lobby has been maintained.
There is considerable opposition to sew
eral sections of the bill and some heat
ed fights are anticipated when an eff
fort is made to remove the objection
able paragraphs
Senator Huffman's bill to create a
school of mines and metallurgy at Weir,
Kan, is on the calendar under third
reading and may be reached tonight If
the labor bills do not provoke undue
oratory The Huffman bill provides an
appropriation of $4,000 for 1911 and
1912 maintenance of the school, but
the town has offered to donate a 40
acre tract of land and suitable build
ings for the school. The Cherokee
county member will make the fight of
his life for the bill. On the other hand
there are a half dozen members who
will persistently oppose the new school
and the contest promises to be on a
par with the Pittsburg divorce bill.
The Travis bill in relation to acci-
dents, except in coal mines. and re-
curing prompt reports from the fac
tory inspectors of such accidents, pass
ed the senate this morning without
opposition. This bill is aimed at the
concerns which do not report acci-
dents to employees and provides q
penalty of from 500 to $500 for the
companies which attempt to prevent
statements of accidents and death to
employees.
Senator Millions bill providing fol
the registration of all deaths and
births and creating the office of a state
registrar, was passed this morning
with but slight alterations. The bill
) provides that the city clerk in all in
corporated towns shall keep a minute
death and birth record. Bodies re-
moved from one burial district to an
: other can be removed only on the
securing of a proper certificate from
the official in charge of this district
and a report to the state registrar
: period of ten days and a penalty is
prescribed where this information is
not furnished.
The death and birth registration act
is endorsed by many prominent Kan
sas jurists and Judge Smart recently
said that with this law in operation
the state would have been saved
thousands of dollars in the famou!
incubator baby case. The rules sur
! rounding the affairs of the state reg.
: istrar's Office shall be in charge of the
state boarI of health and the salary
of the registrar is fixed at $4,000 {
, year with ample appropriations. as
sistants. clerks aad stenographers.
The Hodges bill fxine the salarie.
of the superfntendents of the state
charitable Institutions passed the sen
ate today and will go into effect al
soon as the act is published. Under
the terms of the bill the superintend
ent of the state orphans home viii
receive 81, 500 a year; superintendent
: of the industrial school for boys $1,5Ot
year and the matron $500 a year
Like provision is made for the indus
trial school for girls The superin