Arizona republican., 1917-01-30
MINIMUM WAGE
 HEARING UPON
 BILL IS HELD
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 employed in Arizona were worth S12 a week to their employers. Some of them were learning their duties and others were probably incompetent. If | employers were bound to a minimum wage such employees would be dis placed and probably women employees | would be brought in from other states where wages are lower, to fill these SIP a week places.
 .Mr. Walton in his questions as suIned that the rate of wages should | DC fixed by the need of employees. Mr. l Franklin did not believe that em- ployers could be brought to that view; they would naturally try to get the most they could for the money. While they might get along with a S6 or S8 employe, if they had to pay SIP, they would avail themselves of the op- 1 portunity to get a more competent woman than they had formerly em- 1 ployed
 MT. Walton thought it would be l better, if the help was not of the | highest efficiency, to slow down the machinery. MT Franklin replied that the tendency would be to remove the defect. At that point the witness and the member entered into a discussion. of automobile engines and the house rose for the noon recess MT. Frank lin was not afterward called. In the afternoon MT. Steinfeld spoke q little more directly in favor of the employers out he followed the line laid down by MT. Franklin, that the l employees. not all of them, of course, but majority would be disastrously affected by the operation of the pro. posed law. Here the grilling, lit | tie more severe, was resumed by Mrs. Mckay and Messrs Walton and | Vaughn in which Messrs. Mallory. Eddy, Edwards and Francis joined 1 Questions asked by Messrs Green | Baxter and Davis were calculated to | hring out arguments in opposition to the bill as it had been framed. The last speaker was J. c. Adams ! "ho said that nobody had sent him ard he had not been sent for; he did not come representing labor or th,. hotel interests. only himself He said that there were about @ hundred wo- men employed by the Hotel Adams and their wages were. for those em- DloYeo in the grill room $i0 d montL and their board: those employed in | he dining room received $35 a month and their board. The board might cost as much as s1.50 a day accord ne to the menu. There were other | who received S35 a month without board
 Meu were employed in the dining room and the grill room and they re- l ceiveG exactly the same wages as the | women, If the bill should become a law it would be necessary 70 employ men exclusively.
 After the usual period of grilliny l NIT. Adams-was excused and the com inittee rose. The house had by this | time decided that another form O. | flexible should be substituted and the l bill was sent back to the committee on laUor With instructions to prepare one in which novices, apprentices. cripples and other employees of less than average efficiency should be ex- cepted frcm it's operations. This bill | will probably also take account of such conditions as had been dwelt ] upon by MeSsrs. Reed and Adams. There was nc suggestion as to the figures of the minimum wage. In the course of the consideration of the bill amendments and sugees- | tons for amendments were offered. one of them was by MT Buehman of Pima affecting girls under sixteen years of age, applicable only to the summer months when they would be working in vacation. There was q 1 difference of opinion as 10 tho time that should be so covered. whether only July and August or whether September should be included
 The Kinney Bill
 There was also 2 labor hearing in the senate but not on the floor. It | tock place before the committee on labor but it was a public hearing in that representatives of affected in- terests might present their views The so called Kinney bill was under con- irifl flaf-e. fffra IT. -ie, q l.sfI qu.res that employees engaged in haz- ardous employment shall be able to understand. speak and read the Eng fish language. The first speaker was l General Manager c. H. Dowen of the | Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company The speaker said that such law would throw more than half the employees of the company smelter at Douglas out of employment and would dispossess about twenty per cent Of the men in the company mines
 The most surprising witness was Secretary French of the Arizona | Fecer2 tion of Miners who said that 1t was opposed by more than half the | members of the executive committee | of the federation. Another witness was Mir. Doane. representing one of the northern lumber companies. The committee announced no action on the l Dlll dl lHe CtOSe or the nearing.
 Routine Business
 Beyond the introduction of a half dozen new bills and the reports of | standing committees there was little business transacted in the senate The new bills were:
 By MT. Devine of Pinal, exemptine all totally blind persons from taxation | vixen the assessed valuation oe their property is less than S5000.
 By Mir. Robert of Cochise, provid- ing for an additional superior judge in counties having a population of more than 20000
 By MT. Roberts, providing that a physician who has a certificate from another state and who makes show ing of having practiced medicine for ten years shal' be admitted to prac- tice in this state without an exam nation.
 By Mir. Hall of Mar;copa, prohibit ing the drawing of checks against in sufficient funds in bank Sucn overdrafts in excess of s100 shall constitute a felony. overdrafts Of | smaller stms, misdemeanors.
 By MT Winsor of Ylma, amending the law with reference to recall cleo tions.
 The judiciary committee reported favora ply on the bill prohibiting ne- potism and adversely reported the Dill providing for a miners hospital
 Business In the House
 The bill adopting a state flag was passed by the hOuSo with thrae dis