New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Rsport of Senate Commit
tee Plans for Improving
Conditions of Workers
Also Aid for Farmers
Road Building at Cost of
S5O,0OO,OOO l. Proposed
to Solve Labor Problem
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
MADISON, Wis, Feb. 16. Senator
roy z. Wilcox yesterday presented to
the Senate the report Of committee
On postwar reconstruction legislation
TO stile Rolshevism. The programme
suggested by the committee is intended
TO counteract anarchist and revolutions
sry propaganda by allaying discomfort
and improving the conditions Of the
working people and farmers
Bolshevism. according to the report
OF the committee, is a menace in that
while it is essentially a revolutionary
movement cts methods are those of
terrorism To obviate the dangers of
the movement the committee suggests
the following constructive programme
of social legislation:
Representation of labor on boards
Of directors of industries
A basic eighth hour day.
dismissal wage, to enable the
worker to live through the period Of
readjustm tment
Equal pay for women.
Extension of the minimum wage
law to men.
Creation of state marketing com
mission.
Large appropriations to provide aid
10 farmers cooperative organizations
by auditing and bookkeeping experts.
For Farmers and Producers
Appointment of special assistant
attorney general to investigate un-
fair practises and determinations
against farmers and producers by
bersons both within and without the
state.
Protection of the interests of the
small m .ddleman. -.
Agricultural presentation on the
boards Of normal. university and CEN
tral board of education.
Protection for any person who
leaves his product with non-coopera
tive creamerias, cheesemakers and
eondensories BY bonding of the CON
Germ 10 prevent loss through mis-
management.
Guarantees by law to employers
and employees of the right to organize
and bargain collectively.
Authorization of all cities to raise
funds by taxation or bond issues to
provide for city planning and suitable
housing facilities.
Rehabilitation of victims of indus
trial accidents b. the State Board of
Vocational Education.
Organized labor to be represented
on the educational boards of the
state.
Compulsory industrial courses in
continuation schools during periods
Of enforced idleness and non-employ-
ment
Extension of vocational education
to persons from seventeen to eigh-
teen years of age.
Appointment Of committee to
work out progra mme for the estab-
lishment Of social insurance.
One day Of rest in seven.
Occupational Diseases
Inclusion Of occupational diseases
under the worFmen's compensation
act.
Increased maximum basis of COM
pensation from $3.50 to $4 a day.
Higher salaries for school teachers.
Medical inspection Of school chill
dren
Scholarships for workings boys and
girls from continuation schools and
returned soldiers.
In the normal schools and univer-
sites these scholarships from voca-
,lonal choos shall be recognized.
Easier methods for constitutional
amendment
Pleas for Industrial cooperation tc
replace industrial warfare follow the
assertion that it was clearly demon
strated during the war that labor anc
capital when properly represented car
smicably adjust differences.
The report proposes a $4,000 00C
road programme, maintaining that
highways should be built as fast Is
possible and that Wisconsin should not
lag behind Illinois and Minnesota.
The building Of highways will fur
nsh large feld Of employment" says
the report
1t suggested that the work be under
iae direction Of the State Highway
Commission.