Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-22
WAGE BILL |S INTRODUCED
 IN LEGISLATURE
ATTORNEY GENERALS PET PLAN CALLS FOR PROSECUTION
 OF LABOR CLAIMS

the senate, ana which bring the total number introduced thus far up to IA, are two by Frame of the Third divi- sion, on request, calling for regulation of employment in the Territory.
 s. B. No. 12 is entitled "An act to regulate contracts between employer and employe and the method and man. ner of paying compensation for labor" and was introduced at the request of the Attorney General The general recommendations are as follows:
 That where the contract for serv- ice is to continue for a season or for Ia specified period of time and the labor is to be paid by the piece, and such contract contains no express guarantee of a minimum of material to be furnished the employe by the employer with which to do the work and earn his compensation, the con- tract shall be construed to guarantee to the employe enough work to enable him to earn at least $20 per week in addition to lodging and subsistence; and where the contract is for perform ance of tasks and furnishing of labor contemplating and requiring several servants and contains no guarantee as to the minimum amount of material which the employer will furnish to en- able the contractor or employe or employees to earn compensation, such contract shall be construed to guar antee for each individual whose serv- ices are needed to accomplish the task when the plant, establishment, can nery or factory at which the labor is to be performed is operating at full capacity, sufficient material to enable such contractor, servant or employe to earn at least s20 per week in addi- tion to lodging and subsistence"
 Unless otherwise specified in con- tracts entered into before the work is performed, the bill provides for a monthly pay day for all work per formed to within ten days of pay day, and for full payment at the time the employees services terminate, payment to be made either in actual cash or in- struments drawn on some bank or de- pository within the Territory con- veniently situated to the place of the payment of labor. It fixes the stand ard size for mild-cured herring at 700 per barrel unless otherwise specified in the contract and provides further that, unless specified to the contrary reflling after the barrel has been left to stand and settle, "is no part of the gibbing and or packing for which the contract price per barrel is fixed"
 Employes discharged by the super intendents or managers of the work, who under the contract are made the sole judges of the efficiency of such employees, are given the right to show that the decision of such judges was unfair or unjust and not in conformi- ty with the facts" In case of con- tracts containing more than 200 words, parts relating to the minimum guaran- tee and size of fish to be packed are required to be typed or printed in larger size than the remainder of the contract. A penalty clause is embed jed directed against employers who, having sufficient means so to do, fail to pay employees on demand where the failure is designed to annoy, harass, oppress or defraud employees. Chap ter 45, Session Laws of 1925, entitled "An Act to Protect Labor," is re- nno1od 1,x, fhn hill