River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-03-01
HOPE FOR UNDER
PAID TEACHERS
Bill Would Raise Salary to $40
Per Month.
MANY AUTOMOBILE MEASURES
Effort to Regulate This Class of Traf-
fic-BiII to Compel Telephone
Companies to Give Public
Good Service.

MadiSOn-It will be cheering news
| to rural school teachers OF the state
that there is a probability that the
| legislature will increase their salaries.
The minimum wage at the present
time is $40 month as established Dy
the 1913 legislature. The assembly COM
mittee on education has recommended
| for passage a bill which fixes the mini
mum at $40. The original assembly
bill on this subject called for mini
mum salary of $50, but an investiga-
| ton by the committee on education in
Dictated that the average wage Tor
| teachers in the state was about $40.
| Many receive more than this amount
and many less and it was decided by
| the committee to fix the minimum at
$40 and this bill will be before the
assembly this week.
| Social Insurance.
The creation of a plan of social in
| surance is provided for in bill which
has been offered in the lower house by
Assemblyman Henry Obi of Milwaukee.
In it's general provisions the measure
follows the one adopted by the Amer
lean Association for Labor Legislation.
Pending also before the legislature are
two joint resolutions, one by Assem-
| blyman John G. Chapple of Ashland and
another by Senator Roy p. Wilcox of
| Eau Claire, asking for legislative in
vestigatiOn of the subject. The OH
bill provides a complete plan of social
insurance.
Under the terms of the Oil meas
| ure a social insurance commission con-
| trolls the three members appointed by
| the governor for a term of six years,
the chairman to get salary of $4,000
and the other two members to receive
300 each. Aiding this commission
shall be social insurance council
composed of six representatives of en-
| ployers and six employees.
Every person engaged in manual la
Dor getting less than 500 a month
must be insured. Those receiving in
excess of that much may elect to be
insured. All persons nnder the act
will receive benefits in case of sick
ness, accident or death, not covered by
the workmen's compensation act. Ma
ternity benefits are also provided for.
A cash benefit of two-thirds of the
weekly wages shall be paid beginning
the fourth day during disability not
more than &c weeks in any II months.
One-half of the wages of an insured
person, while in the hospital shall be
paid to dependents.
Opposition to Bradley Bill.
There is some opposition to the
| Bradley bill, which is still before the
| assembly committee on labor, estab-
fishing a minimum wage for females
| and minors until the industrial COM
| mission acts. This bill would give mi
nors under eighteen IS cents per day !;
laborers and apprentices 81 a day, and
other female workers $1.25 per day.
| When the bill was given a hearing
| last week it was opposed by George F..
Hambrecht of the industrial commits
sion.
Would Reorganizc Board.
Apparently the officials at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin are in favor of
the Whittet bill for the reorganiZa-
| ton of the state board of education.
| The present board of education, which
| prepares the educational budget for
| the educational systems of the state,
is composed of the governor, secretary
of state and state superintendent,
with one representative of the regents
of the university and one representa-
e IL of %10 tot
The Whittet bill provides for the
elimination of the state superintendent
and secretary of state. 1t would Gre
ate a board of seven members, COM
posed of the governor, four members
to be appointed by him and one rep
resentative for the university and one
| for the normal schools.
To Expedite Work.
To expedite the work Of the legisla-
ture by getting all of the bills out,
Speaker Whittet has held an informal
meeting of the members with the bill
| drafting department and it has been
agreed that all of the large measures
| should be reported out Of the commit
tee on revision at once and sent to the
various committees for hearing. 1t is
| hoped by this method to have all of
| the larger measures considered.
Along this line every committee of
| the legislature will now be compelled
| to file a weekly report with the legis-
| lature showing the status of each bill
| in the committee, and any action
| taken in regard to it by the committee.
Fate of Alumni Directory Uncertain.
Publication of a directory of alumni
| of the university within the next year
depends upon the appropriation to be
made by the legislature now in ses-
sion. There is in the university bud
get an appropriation for this purpose,
but its passage is in doubt because of
other expense. The directory will con-
tain the names Of all who have grad
uated from the university and have re-
| ceived degrees. This number has
reached a total of over 1900, of which
three thousand have graduated since