Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-27

appointed by Governor Hiram w.
johnson stands out pre-eminent as a
just and eflicacious means of render
ing to laboring men their just due.
The construction and lumber camps
cf this State were in a fearful con-
dition, many of them, in the words Of
investigators, mot being fit for pigs"
The food served was often unhealthy,
and typhoid and other diseases were
prevalent from the use of bad water
and the lack of ordinary sanitation.
Camps Cleaned Up.
The immigration and Housing Com
mission investigated every laboring
camp in the State. Most of the en-
ployers willingly co-operated with the
Commission in bettering conditions
and remedying abuses. Those who
didn't were soon brought to time by
prosecution. Today the labor camps
of this State are in clean and healthy
condition, and decrease in disease has
been remarkable.
No Laws Before Johnson.
These are the fruits of the Johnson
administration. Before 1911 hardly
statute of any benefit to Labor was
upon the law books of California.
Every important and just law has
either been placed upon the books
since then or enforced for the first
| time.
Labor Leaders Credit Johnson.
The conscientious Labor leaders Of
this State give credit to Hiram w.
Johnson as the man who insisted upon
the passage of these necessary laws
and who signed them despite a strong
er opposition than that which caused
many other governors before him TO
Veto
Those Labor leaders do not give any
of the credit, nor even acknowledge
assistance from John Barry Curtin,
Democratic candidate for governor,
who consistently opposed nearly all
legislation giving labor its just due.
Curtin's Labor Record.
Franklyn Hichborn's "History of the
Legislature of 1913," in the table
showing the votes of State Senators
for and against measures desired by
laboring interests give John Barry
Curtin voting for two of these meas
ures, voting against the six Others
And Of the two he voted for, one was
G. local affair and the other the least
important vote on that measure.
Fredericks' Record Similar.
Nor do the laboring men of this
State acknowledge the claim of John
d. Fredericks, Republican candidate
for governor, that the wing of tie
Republican party to which he belongs
passed all these measures. They also
can read the history of the Legisla-
ture and see that nearly all the i'm
portant supporters of Fredericks, who
served in the Legislature, voted
against these Labor measures. Nor
co they ascribe to a candidate receiv-
ing the fanatical support of Harrison
Gray Otis for the past twelve years
any great love for the laboring people
of this State.
Johnson Deserves Credit.
To Hiram w. Johnson and those
legislators who supported him in his
policies is due the credit for the Just
and righteous Labor laws passed
No thinking laboring man can over
look that the Johnson administration
was first to pass these laws.
And long list of Republican and
Democratic administrations before
johnson refused the passage of those
laws whose justice and necessity was
so apparent one wonders they didn't
bite them.
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