The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-17
ROOSEVELT SAVED
LABOR BILL FOR
WOMEN IN SENATE
Defeated Efforts of New
York Lobbyists to Cause
It's Defeat.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. the
Democratic nominee for the wee
presidency, who will speak here in
Seaside Park, on Saturday after
noon was born at Hyde Park, New
York, January 80, 1882, in the old
| mansion which has been in the pos
session Of the family for more than
a century. His boyhood days were
divided between this old place, a
town house at 260 Madison avenue in
New York City, and a summer home
at Campobel1o, on a little island off
the coast of PASSPORT, Maine
| His elementary schooling was ac-
quired at Groton. In 1904 he was
graduated from Harvard University
and in 1907 took his degree in law at
Columbia
After his graduation from Har-
ward, Mr.. Roosevelt was elected to
| the Board of Overseers for six years.
Fellow members on the board Were:
Mai Gen Leonard Wood, Judge
Deals of New Jersey; Jerome Davis
Greene, former director of the Rock
erfeller Institute of New York, and
Arthur Woods, former Police Com
missioner of New York.
Soon after he began the practice
of law, Mr.. Roosevelt was nominated
for the New York State Senate, in
the district which includes Duchess
political machinery of both parties he
was elected and at the close of his
first term we reelected by the
| largest majority ever recorded in that
section of the country.
During his first term in the Senate
he saved from defeat the bill limit
ing the working hours OF women and
/ children which powerful interests
were working hard to prevent the
passage of. It had passed the AS
sembly and was scheduled to be
throttled in the Senate.
On the last night of the session,
just before adjournment. Mr.. Roose-
welt had it called up. Several mem
! bers who favored the bill but be-
| lieved its passage hopeless, had left
for their homes Summoning them
by messenger Mr.. Roosevelt held
the floor, against all the parlimen-
tary tactics of the lobbyists, until
their return and their votes carried
the bill.
His term in the Senate had still
one year to run when he was called
to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
He resigned his seat on March II.
1913, and on the same day assumed
his new duties in Washington.
In his duties as Assistant Secre-
tary the relations of the Department
with the employees in the Navy
Yards and stations came under his
Jurisdiction and he established the
rule that no one with a complaint
| case before him. When he was nom
mated for vice president the 'fF'ed-
eral Machinist' in commenting on
the nomination said that mo other
Assistant Secretary of the Navy had
ever gained so great a measure of
respect from the workers and their
representative as has Mr.. Roose-
ye1t.''
Mr.. Roosevelt has an extensive
knowledge of things nautical which
| he began to pick. up as a boy at his
| summer home on the Main coast. 1t
| is said that he can drive almost any
| Kind of naval craft and that he
| holds pilots license, enabling him
| to put into any port along the coast
Besides his work in the navy, Mr.
| Roosevelt has taken an important
| part in many public undertakings
| He was a member of the Hudson
| Fulton. Celebration Commission in
1909; of the P1attsburg Centennial
! and of the National Commission for
| the Panama and Philippine Island
| Exposition. He is married and has
| five children.