The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-15
LEGISLATURE ENJOYS
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(AOntlflueQ 1TO1ll rage OIlG.)
 wallop at the Federation of Labor bill establishing a commission of employers and employees with the labor commission CT to investigate strikes and settle them before they began if possible. "Bolshe- vist" agreed the House and the bill was ordered deported. Next 1t took a crack at the bill prohibiting more than 56 hours of labor in manufacturing establish ment by women and minors, and that also was too radical for the dear e1n- p1oyers and was rejected forthwith. The labor committee didn't know just where 1t stood on a bill giving the labor com missioner more power so passed the buck to the judiciary committee and the bill to that effect was sent on it's way there. With passing a bill to license soft drink makers and one regretting the death of "Souvenir" Taylor, the House considered 1t a days work and adjourned out of respect to the late "SOuvenir."
 Something slipped cog on Wednes- day for actually several favorable re- ports were handed in on labor measures and then tabled for the calendar, where, If they have luck in catching the legis- lators asleep they may slip through. Be- fore doing that, however, the Assembly made sure that one important bill Or ganized Labor had advocated, didn't slip over and promptly threw 1t out on report of the committee against 1t. This was the one providing for the direct election of judges which Labor asked both pOliti- cal parties last fall to favor in their plat forms The committee reported against 1t with the explanation that no one had appeared to favor it. True enough-no one did for the very good reason that a snap hearing was held on the bill just like snap hearings were held on other Labor bills and no one interested knew when the hearing was to be held.
 Two favorable reports did come in, but this was evidently because the bills were not tainted" with "LabOr", but were provided by the Consumers League and the labor commissioner himself. One was reported to the Senate and gives the labor commissioner power to sum- mon and examine witnesses under oath and to direct production of records books. vouchers, etc, when needed Tn his investigations. This is what the manu- lecturers attorneys objected to on the strike commission bill, declaring that it was no ones business what the employ ers books showed.
 The other bill provides that no child under 16 years shall be employed, re- uuired or allowed to work in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory or manufac- turing establishment more than eight hours a day or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of 6 o'clock in the afternoon or before o'clock in the morning. The labor commissioner is authorized to prosecute violations. ln cuding bowling alleys in industries from which minors under l6 are prohibited from working after p. m.
 Another bill which was favored by Labor but not introduced by its repre- sentatives, bars Chinese laundries from doing work in rooms where sleeping quarters are maintained or where an op- orator had tuberculosis or other COntagi- ous disease. It also puts them under the state factory regulations.
 Another Consumers League bill re- quiring toilets be provided in manufac- turing and mercantile establishments also got by on a favorable report. None of these have yet been passed, however.