The Connecticut labor news., 1921-01-28
COMPULSORY HEALTH
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to put down strikes instead of to protect farmers as its agitators stated. Senator Hall is manufacturer and the bill com ing from him leads to the belief that the manufacturers associations instead of the farmers are behind 1t.
 Another bill that should create a rumpus was offered by Senator Brown and provides for the absolute repeal of the Sunday amusement laws. If passed this will again put the worker back into a sphere of having no time for outdoor recreation. The judiciary, of which Brown IS a member, gets the bill and Brown states he is to do everything in his power to force it through. On the other hand bills to legalize professional sports on Sunday afternoon are also in and between the two should make a merry fight.
 A bill providing $10 month bonus for soldiers of the World War, which would entail an appropriation of $6,- 100000 is also in but likely to fail.
 Among the other bills offered in which Labor is particularly interested and the committee to which they were referred are the following:
 Providing 55 hour week for manufac- turing establishments employing more than 10 persons. Labor.
 Providing for 45-minute lunch hour in manufacturing establishments. Labor.
 Authorizing the labor commissioner to bring prosecutions for factory law violations. Labor.
 Providing nine hour day for minors under 16 and women 54-hour week in manufacturing establishments, also sev- en holidays a year with pay. Labor.
 Providing for private drinking cups III factories. Public health and safety.
 Providing for uniformity in the workmens compensation law III com pliance with the recommendations of the compensation commissioners to the governor. Judiciary.
 Authorizing city of New Haven to pay city employees for the time they were in the service of the United States during the war. Cities and boroughs.
 Amending Sunday work and recrea- ton law permitting baseball and basket ball or other outdoor and indoor games or sports by or between amateurs after D. n., provided no admission fee Is charged and authorizing park commis sioners to give free Sunday concerts in the parks.
 Prohibiting the issuance by the state board of education of certificates per mitting children under 16 to work i'll manufacturing or mercantile establish ments, unless 1t shall be made to ap- pear to the authority to whom the ap- plication IS made that 1t Is for the best interest of the child that such certificate be issued" Education.
 Requiring suitable toilets in all manu- featuring and mercantile establishments. Labor
 Empowering the commissioner of la bor and factory inspection, III promoting satisfactory relations between capital and labor, to summon and examine wit nesses under oath and to demand such books and records as are desired. La bor.
 Preventing evasion of statute prohib- ting employment of children under 10 years old in bowling alleys or mercan- tile establishments without a certificate from the state board of education. La bor.
 No public service motor vehicle shall be allowed to compete in the carrying of passengers for hire, with any street rail- way company chartered under the laws of this state, along any of the lines of such street railway company, unless the public utilities commission, after hearing had, shall find that such street railway company is not furnishing ade- quate transportation facilities to the travelling public. Cities and boroughs.
 Representative Dunn of Hartford offered the Sunday baseball bill permit ting professional baseball and football on Sundays after p. m. Judiciary.
 Creating Soldiers Bonus Board with authority to determine those entitled to a state bonus from $6,OOO,O00 fund provided by the bill for the purpose by the sale of bonds. A bonus of $10 for every month in service between April 6, 1911, and November II, 1919, would be paid to each resident who was enlisted in the naval or military forces of the United States or was an army or navy nurse recognized as such by the war or navy department The bonus would be payable to the descendants of such per sons entitled to it who have died. Mem bers of the bonus commission would be appointed by the governor to serve two years. Military affairs.
 (By request), prohibiting the sale of "near beer' without a license from the county commissioners, for which the charge would be $150 Only one license for each thousand of population would be allowed Excise.
 Providing for appointment of ice commission of three electors of the state appointed by the General Assem- bly upon nomination by the governor for the regulation of the trading in ice and for the investigation of the food trade in the state.
 Permitting water companies to cut off supply to customers who wilfully waste water because of defective fix lures. Judiciary.