Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-30
LABOR MAY HAVE
VOICE ON BOARDS
Joint Management Scheme In
Guided in Measure Favored.
FIVE NEW BILLS REPORTED
Reconstruction Committee Acts on
Legislation Affecting Relations of
Workmen, Capital and Educa-
ton-RecalI Held Valid.

Madison.-The reconstruction COM
mittee, Senator Wilcox, chairman, re-
ported out five new bills affecting rela-
lions of labor and capital and educa-
ton. The first requires that after JAN
uary /, 1920, the board of directors OF
each industrial corporation employing
more than $50 persons shall include in
its membership one nOnstockholding Ia
Dor representative elected annually by
ballot by the employees. This labor
director will acquire all the rights OF
director, except that he may not hold
office The election Of this represen-
tative will be called by the president
of the corporation from 10 to 30 days
prior to the annual stockholders
meeting. The object is to apply to in
dustries of the state the joint man.
agement scheme prevailing success
fully in war industries in England.
A second bill declares that the anti
trust statutes shall be so construed as
to permit collective bargaining by as
SociationS of producers of agricultural
products and by associations of en-
ployees when the bargaining is done
for the individual benefit of the sep
arate members of the associations en-
tering into the collective bargaining.
The third bill creates for rural COM
munities a system of instruction in
agriculture, under the direction of the
state board of vocational education.
The board is authorized to begin in
struction in any county, and county
boards may appropriate funds to carry
on the work, the whole to be conduct
ed in compliance with the federal vo-
cational act. The bill carries $25,-
600 state appropriation.
The fourth raises the age limit for
continuation school attendance from
seventeen to eighteen, beginning Sep
tember 1, 1920 The committee has
recommended substitute for the
highway bonding bill. The substitute
proposes to amend the constitution so
that bonds may be issued to the extent
of ! per cent of the assessed valuation
of the state. On the present basis
this would allow a bond issue of $685.
100000.
The c. E. Hanson bill giving the
legislature power to recall an ap-
pointive official after an Interpolation
was held to be a valid enactment by
Attorney General Blaine in an opinion
TO Assemblyman AXel Johnson, chair
man of the house committee on state
affairs.
The opinion is an exhaustive one
covering many constitutional ques-
tons, with extensive quotations from
many legal opinions and decisions.
at is my opinion that the legisla-
ture can create any body or board or
other instrumentality through which
the legislatures will may be exercised
with respect to the removal of Off
GERS" says Attorney General Blaine
in the opinion.
sit is my opinion that any official
whose office has been created by the
legislature may be removed, and that
the legislature may provide any meth
cd for the removal of such officer and
constitute any board or body with
power of removal, either in a summary
manner or in such manner as the leg
islature may by express statute pro-
vide.
This proposition is sustained by
various legislative acts since the or
ganization of our state, and the posi-
ton has received the sanction of the
courts repeatedly, and the removal of
an officer under the proposed bill is
not a legislative act and does not re
quire any other procedure than that
provided for in the bill. When the
legislature acts under this bill it is not
acting in it's legislative capacity, but
in an administrative capacity, or in
quasi-judicial, under the established
rule laid down under legislative enact
ment.
"The authority conferred upon the
legislature by joint resolution in the
exercise of discretion, not for the guild
ance of the legislature in It's legisla-
tive capacity, but the doing of a thing
by it as an administrative body I'M
der legislative enactment"
Backed by the 1aYOraDle reports
from the corporations committee, the
Jennings bill to legalize the formation
of housing companies in cities was
advanced to engrossment. This. bill,
regarded as one of the most important
social reforms of the session, provides
that any three corporations or indi-
yiduals, one of which may be the city.
may form home building corporations.
Propose Test for Graduates.
The students of the college of law,
University of Wisconsin, viii no longer
be admitted to the bar without first
passing the regular bar examination if
a bill introduced by the assembly judi
ciary committee becomes a law.
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