The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-02-14

wide field All employers should required
port the different hospitals, physicians coroncrs ec should also be
required submit statements This Of Would
fusion and duplication of work many instances bat that could be
easily handled and would give to the Department absolute check
HOURS or LABOR FOR WOMEN
Nest in importance wonenS compensation act in
aton the reduction of hours OF employment for the large
OF female found every industrial We gae
Tor the common aorer public work by shortening the hours OF
o and increasing his pay We protect our children in tender years
from hazardous epoents and the mass OF factory employees have
every pauton thrown around their work far il possible to
when and how they shall he paid This Of course affects the
great extent but be said that she has
ceived her dues when quit here Whether placed
upon TINS earth TO DO manual labor or not question we are unable
to decide but they have elected take the burdens
featuring and other pursuits incumbent upon lawmakers
that they properly protected from long toll Their
compensation salary inadequate particularly
work twelve hours and sometimes fourteen hours per day
We realize in discussing this question: that in much the
few women employed in featuring institutions and workshops
compared with the older and developed states We
realize also that those employees subjected
hons utterly loweTe defend themselves. At the present
workshops in Oklahoma and it is on behalf OF these
workers and those who follow that appeal the Legsla
ture Tor assistance.
These laws like other progressive legislation have found their
they entitled 10 them in Michigan and California they entitled
seen lit declare such laws unconstitutional but they have
reached The higher courts firmly believe that when they do
PAYMENT Or WAGES TO EMPLOYEES WHO ARE os
VOLUNTARILY LEAVE THEIR EMPLOYMENT.
During past year many been brought
n covering the payment Of by contractors manufacturers
and individuals to employees who have been discharged or yonn-
session ii fho eoat, providing for enrnontblv nav dav in
ground certain
featuring Institutions bit public work and building
the pa of an employee when lie leaves the service il possible Some
that have the attention of the Department show that
men absolute for the necessities Of life onPelcd TO wait
much three weeks Tor their pay We have collected during the
past eight months something fifteen hundred dollars
this kind not through law that we had but simply by begging
and threatening employers discharged employees what due
them 1t seems hat law, making man dne within three or
four days i ne voluntarily quits the service at once he is dis
charged from the service would correct this evil and prove great
Another law that might be suggested along this line pro-
ying protection for employees public work. As under
stand IT, ere i law the statute books today that provides for
the payment wages employees who employed municipal
work In fact have this Department where there
IS something like 10000 due who dug the ditch
tain city in the state and because there friction between the
tractor and the city and because OF the TACT that they cannot reach
N'e"s DiscouarNe CITY WARRANTS
Anotr question in regard the dicounng OF city
During the eighteen months complaint after complaint
has been filed with this Department protesting against what
i frcas , ys ~ c,nloaos +, r t o,rtly ,ffset t,c
exhorban discount demanded By the banks but the part
Of the roney interest The warrants generally bear interest at the
period Notwithstanding this condition banks charge from fifteen
to thirty per cent discount Investigation in city State
showed that there number OF funds from which these
drawn and that il only necessary
hold the from thirty sixty days and in this city
that tile professional buyer active lie seemed
be getting tips the inside and has been
and hall miles, after night, purchase warrant Of
aboe discount thirty when he knew that the
itself would be taken up less than three weeks We realize
that IS often necessary conduct the affairs OF city
this but where necessary conduct the affairs
incumbent upon the Legislature laws that will protect
the hborng in his wages.
STREET
Following general custom this State enacted number of
among which is the highway and road law which al
lows the collection Of $500 per year every male citizen of this
between the ages twenty and fifty years who shall have
resided in the thirty DAYS and who county township
charge and who performed duty elsewhere the
that II paid for by work upon the road the taxpayer
allowed the Of S25 per day This OF course being sepa
statutory upede the eight hour law which provides
for the payment The cirren market Of wages Il
lust where ordered his that he
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