Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-06
SAYS HUGHES MADE
 GOOD WITH LABOR John F. Gunshanan Addressed Repub- liean Rally in Jewett City.
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 Jewett City, Nov. 4.-"Charles E. said John F. Gunshanan, former tu- berculosis commissioner, in address ing a republican rally here this ev- ening.
 "The accounts in newspapers, which I have read, said the speaker, 'of la Dor union meetings addressed by Frank Morrison, of Washington, sec retary of the American Federation of Labor, reveals the fact that not one word of criticism is directed against the attitude toward labor of Charles E. Hughes during his public career"
 The position of the American Fed eration of Labor in regard to Iegisla- tion is clearly defined in the passage of resolution in a recent convention which reads as follows: Resolved, that the American Fed eration of Labor, as in the past, de- clares that the regulation wages and hours of labor should be undertaken through trades union activity and not by legislation, except insofar as the
 employment of women and children, health and morals, and the employees | of the national, state and municipal governments are affected" Now" said MT. Gunshanan, "here Is | the position taken by Charles E. | Hughes during his public life, and see | how it compares with the above res- olution:"
 l SItt0 IdUOT During Governor Hughes term not
 only were adequate and specific laws passed for the protection of children I of industry but careful provision was | made for their enforcement:
 An act providing an eight hour day | for children under 16 in factories. An act regulating issuance of en- | ployment certificates to children IA 1 to Is years of age. An act regulating the employment 1 of children in street trades. Known as the newsboy law. An act improving the compulsory education law for the benefit of chii- ! dren in cities of the first and second class.
 | An act providing for the proper en-
 forcement of the child labor law in | mercantile establishments by placing
 them under the authority of depart ment of labor.
 An act prohibiting the employment | of children in dangerous occupations ! in factories.
 of children in bowling alleys and | other places of amusement. l Hours of Labor. l A number of laws limiting hours of | labor were enacted during Governor l Hughes term of office: 1 A law limiting the hours of labor | to 10 for street car men in cities of | the second class-Albany, Troy, Utica, | Schenectady and Yonkers. ] A law limiting hours of labor to 8 1 for signalmen and railroad telegraph CTS in signal towers. l A law to bring young women of | from IS to 21 years of age within the | protected class. GA law prohibiting
 night work for women had been held | invalid by the court of appeals, so far as it concerned the rights of adult
 women to determine their own hours | of labor).
 Workmen's Compensation.
 In his message to the legislature of | 1909 Governor Hughes asked for a commission to inquire into the ques- tions relating to employers liability l and compensation for. workmen's in- | juries." That recommendation was | the beginning of state workmens compensation laws in America. l Three laws. relating to this subject ! were passed and approved by Govern
 or Hughes:
 A law creating the Wainwright Commission of Inquiry.
 A law providing for automatic com pensation by mutual agreement of en- ployer and employee.
 l A law providing automatic con1pul- sorry compensation for injuries. This was the first lAw of this kind enacted in the United States.
 MT. Gunshanan in closing dwelled
 on state legislation and pointed out the weakness of the civil service law as it applied to the state tuberculosis
 sanatoriums.