The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-24
GOV. SULZER'S FRo oBLAMS
Notable Session of the New York
 Legislature Coming.

Albany. N. Y, Dec. 24.-Probably never before in the history of New York state has a chief executive upon assuming office, faced such serious and complicated problems will confront Gov. William Sulzer, when he is in augurated here one week from to-mor- row. The Empire State is looking forward to one of the most interest ing administrations in it's history and Albany is preparing for a record breaking session of the Legislature
 Progressive reform measures will face the legislature. Organized and unorganized labor. have united in de- manding new laws which will protect the women and children from abuses the mere recital of which during the hast few months has mortified the ma poritl of the citizens A real work ingmen's compensation law is demand ed. Complete reorganization of the state factory department is asked Taxation reforms are demanded Rad icaI railroad remedial legislation will be urged and reform organ1zat1ons ev- erywhere are asking that a merit sys- tenn for all state employees be put Into effect.
 Sulzer. a Democrat during his en- tire public career covering 23 years as member of and Speaker of the state Assembly and Member of Congress, will encounter momentcus problems from the moment he takes the oath of office on Jan 1. The incoming leg islature, overwhelmingly Dernocratic, takes office the same day And aI- .FBlack Horse Cavalry are on the ground ready for the hardest work Of their career. If the general reform incoming Governor and the Legisla- tive leaders will have to put 1t through in the face Of an organized and most determined opposition; charge of the Senate, however, in the person of Lieutenant Governor Glynns who, as state comptroller, made a rep uta.tion for progressive legislation.
 Chief interest will attach to the re- mediaI legislation to prevent child la bor in the canneries; the employment of women at night in certain factories and as 1aborers in foundries and oth- CT establishments where they are sub stituted for men because they Wlh work cheaper. The State Factory In President Pro Tenn of the Senate, Robert F. Wagner, is chairman, will submit report to the Legislature within the next three weeks. It will bitterly score certain of the canneries Of the state where women and chl- dren have been permitted or forced to work from eighteen to twenty hours a day. It will characterize as inhuman and barbarous the practice of permitting tenement manufacture of toys, articles of clothing, decora- tive trimmings such as artificial flow CTS, and will suggest a law along the lines urged by the reform societies whereby nearly all work at home shall be prohibited. Flat prohibition of women working in foundries and at all dangerous labor will be recom- mended and instances will be cited where women, soon to become noth- CTS, have worked as core makers and evens as common Iaborers shoveling sand, as object lessons for the law makers
 The first big legislative fight will come on these reform measures. If they are enacted the employers of the state will have to cut into their prof it's to meet the demands of the law. In ''the old days here, 1t has been con- sidered cheaper to pay money to kill be enacted and then live up to them.
 Womens Suffrage is also going to be a bone of contention for the new administration and for the legisla ture.