The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-08-26

Eight hour law for miners.
1911 I.
| Eight hour law for women.
Initiative, referendum and recall.
/ Workmen's compensation act.
Act authorizing the establishment
of port districts, harbor improve
ments and rail and water transfer
and terminal facilities.
Measure permitting the commission
form of government for municipali-
ties.
Act creating the public service COM
mission to regulate rates Of public
service corporations and prescribe
! service.
! Full train crew law.
1913
Lazy husband act.
Law prohibiting fraudulent adver-
Using.
Act authorizing cities to construct,
acquire and maintain public parks.
Teachers retirement fund.
Measure creating department of
weights and measures.
Act creating. department of agri-
culture.
Red light injunction and abatement
law.
Act providing for the establishment
Of agricultural development districts.
Mothers pension act.
Quincy valley irrigation act.
Minimum wage for women.
Act authorizing counties to care for
tuberculosis patients.
Act establishing drainage improve
ment districts.
1916
Police relief and pension act.
Act providing for the establishment
of budget system for state offices,
departments and Institutions
Act creating commission Of educa-
tional survey to raise educational
standards and reduce expenses.
Abseptee voters law.
1917
Coal mine inspection law, creating
state mine inspection department.
Bank guarantee act, relating to
banks, providing for the security of
deposits thereof and creating a de-
positors' guarantee fund.
Water code, giving state control
of water power rights and irrigation.
Farm products marketing bill, in
which it is declared that "the produc-
ton and marketing of farm products
is hereby declared to be a matter Of
public interest and proper subject
For investigation, encouragement, de-
velopment, regulation and control by
the state"
Act facilitating the enforcement of
he laws against adulteration and mis-
branding Of feod and drugs and auth
,rizing standards of quality, purity
md strength Of foods and drugs.
First aid to injured workmen, j. e.,
Medical aid act.
1919
State aid to tuberculosis patients.
Safety code, providing certain
means for the prevention and avoid
nee Of injuries to workmen.
State reclamation act, providing for
he development Of the agricultural,
esources of the state and the recla-
nation of arid, swamp, overflow and
pgged-on lands.
Act providing for vocational cdu-
alton, to take advantage of the act
f congress for the promotion Of vo-
ational education.
Criminal syndicalism law.
Act creating industrial code COM
mission.
Law establishing women's industrial
ONE and clinic.
Act authorizing small claims courts.
Act declaring labor unions to be
awful organizations, relating to the
overs of the courts of this state in
ne granting of lnJunctlons, declaring
ne labor Of human being not COM
lodity or article of commerce and
rohibiting the Indictment, prosecu-
ion or trial of any person or combina-
ion of persons for any lawful act in
of lettering of his or
heir conditions.
Land settlement act.
Hay and grain grading law.
State powder law.
Besides, Washington legislatures
ave ratified four amendments to the
institution Of the United States, d.
ect election of United States senator's,
ational women's suffrage, federal in
ONE tax and national prohibition.