French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-02-06
COTTON MILL OWNER
Wants TO ABOLISH SH|PNAN
Bill by Lincoln County Spinner to Do Away with
Department Of Labor and Printing, Retaliation
for Shipman Child Labor Bill

! Raleigh, n. c., Feb. 8, 1919.-The
lull in legislative activities took a
lively turn last week when the De-
partment Of Labor and Printing pro-
posed 4 new child labor laW-and ma
chineTy for it's enforcement-in lieu or
the make-shift now on the statute
book. The cotton manufacturers were
holding q meeting here at the time and
assumed their usual attitude towards
Legislation Of this character. The
News and Observer carried this story
of the incident on Wednesday,:
Like a thunderbolt from a clear
sky yesterday came bill in the House
Of Representatives from Representa-
tive Love, of Lincoln, president Of the
Saxony Spinning Company, to abolish
the office of Commissioner of Labor
and Printing, and to place the duties
of that department under the direc-
tion Of the State Auditor. Following
on the heels of the publication OF
Commissioner Shipmans proposed
child labor bill, and, in the midst Of
meeting of the North Carolina Cotton
Manufacturers Association, the bill,
unostentatiOusly presented, amused
the House. A faint applause on its in
PRODUCTION was quickly silenced for
fear that it would be taken as apprO-
wal rather than OF ridicule.
THE bill is very short, providing
only that "the Office of Commissioners
of Labor and Printing be and the same
lis hereby abolished" A second sec
Ition would put the duties now devolV-
ing upon the commissioner within the
jurisdiction of the State Auditor with
out any additional help. Reference by
the speaker was to the committee Oh
Manufacturing of which Love is-chair-
man.
81 am more interested in the pro-
, lection of the kiddies than in holding
anv State Office" said Commissioner
Shipman yesterday afternoon com
imenting on the measure aimed at
him. "If the General Assembly will
enact alaw protecting innocent child
hood, 1 am perfectly willing to be con-
signed to political oblivion"
Sanders Critics Sharply.
, Representative Saunders, OF the
committee, declared last night that the
bill was one calculated ''to make rec
,hIooded North Carolinians hot in the
collar"
''I have had a rising Temperature
. ever since l saw the blamed thing this
= morning" continued the PasQuotanH
member. There may be some argu-
4 ment in favor of abolishing Shlpman
- and his Office, but it comes with bad
face from a cotton mill representative
on the heels of Commissioner Sh1pman
Recommendation of bill to put an enc
to the employment Of child labor II
+ North Carolina. Everybody knows
that cotton mills violate every chile
lIabor law on the statute books ane
, maintain a lobby in every Legislature
Ito block child labor legislation. Ineh
- --latest move, though, is the raves
- thing 1 have ever seen.
ShOUId ACT as bOOmOAdH6'
IT, "Mr. Loves bill should act as
l. boomerang," Mr.. Saunders thinks
y, "North Carolinians will resent so boil
=, on effort to behead an honest man JUS
e because he attacks an evil which ha
rs been a source of profit to the NOR
ID nowerful manufacturing interests Il
~ the State" he said.
Or "The menace of BolsheVism, adde
in Mr.. Saunders, ''is abroad in the Ian
al TODAY lust because of the arbltrar
a spirit of capitalism. If I thought I'd
,d;sovereign people of North Carolln
were to be run over by the cotton MI
interests in any such way as lnolcate
bv the Love bill, think 1 would bo
" the Democratic party myself and er
. list under the red flag"
Us Attitude of superintendent.
AZ Both Superintendent Brooks an
W former Superintendent Of Pubic IL
nd struction Joyner favor the admins
az tration of the child labor law by Il
commissioner of Labor. The presel
statute makes the truancy proVlsie
of the law a part Of their duty bu
more properly they insist, it belong
ito the department of the Commission
s. of Labor and Printing. The PROPOSE
,i1, bill Of Mr.. Shipman would strengt
on Zen .be law and provide inspectors
Il enforce 1t.
IT, ,pecuiation in the lobbies la
night was largely on whether or n