Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-18


The county commissioners must
designate employment each year
that shall be designated as emer-
gency employment. The compen-
sation shall be fixed by the county
and shall be a reas-
enable amount for living wage.
An applicant for emergency en-
ployment shall appear before the
clerk or the commissioners and
shall make cath to the fact that he
is citizen of the United States;
that he has been a resident of the
United States for a period of six
months; that he is a resident of the
county; that he is unable TO secure
other employment; that he does not
own or possess negotiable real or
personal property of total value
of 81 900; that he has or has not
dependents and if he has depend
ents, he must name them; that he
has not been employed at emer-
gency employment during the past
II months, and that he will per-
form any labor that is assigned to
him in as workmanlike a manner
as possible.
The auditor of the county shall
issue to the person who has per-
formed such labor, a warrant for 4
the amount due such person upon
the presentation of voucher
signed by the overseer or other
person having charge of any emer-
gency employment. Such voucher
shall state the number of hours of
performed labor and the amount
due.
The county treasurer is bound to
report to the county commissioners
at each meeting the amount spent
for emergency employment.
The county auditor shall certify
to the state auditor the amount
paid out each year when he makes
his annual return of state taxes.
Fifty per cent of the amount paid
out shall be deducted from the state
taxes paid by each county.
The names of all persons given
emergency employment shall be
kept by the state treasurer.
Violations Of the act shall consti-
tute misdemeanor.
Employment on any specific
work is not designated.
While the law is entirely expert
mental, it is being watched
throughout the country by those
who have been considering the
question of unemployment which
secures such grip on the nation
each winter. On its road through
the legislature great many of the
legislators doubted the effectiveness
of the measure, but declared that
they were willing to give it trial.
The author in his speech for the
bill before the senate said: Men
are of two classes, beggars or work
ers. We have to feed men, be
they either beggars or workers. If
we do not feed them by lawful en-
ployment, we feed them in our
poor farms, our jails or our pris-
ons. If we provide emergency en-
ployment we can find out who are
the workers and who are the beg
gars.
Labor is directly affected by
three other of the new laws. Chap
ter 70 amends section 1919 of the
revised codes which governs the
attorneys fees in suits for wages
by eliminating the limiting of cost
of such fees that will be collected
from the defendant in case of the
winning of the suit by the plaintiff.
Chapter 10 amends section SAP
of the revised codes by requiring
the person who raises any crop to
make sworn statement as to the
unpaid farm laborers when a lien
is attached on the crop, and max
ing the failure to do so a INSIDE
meanor.
Chapter 136 is the measure PROF.
viding for the appointment of a
commission to investigate the
wages of women and children in