The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
.uyYgntEUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHERrY.

is considerably exercised because d
representative, John Holland by name,
introduced a bill in the legislature
providing for the limitation OF work
in all state factories to eight hours
day and the imposition of a fine in
the form of time and half for over
time on any employer working his
help beyond the specified hour-limit.
Should the employer flout the law and
pay only straight time or nothing at
all for the extra hours worked Mr..
Holland would assess the refractory
employer anything from $50 to $500
for each offense.
LAR be it from the indignant organ
Il of big business to commisserate
with the employer in his tribulation
at the hands of this peculiar legis-
lator. 1t is for the workers liberty
that the paper does battle. "This is a
characteristic privation of liberty of
the workingman, in whose alleged in
terest it is presented" says the "Mich-
igan Manufacturer and Financial Rec
ord" Suppose the worker chose to
work his overtime for nothing. Any
citizen may make donation of his
property to any one whom he chooses.
Suppose he desired to make dona-
ton of his labor. Under such meas
ure as Mr.. Holland presents, he
couldn't even have that liberty"
1TOu7 on, sura ,,or are all ron-
IN WINGED that this man Holland is
an undesirable citizen who would Boil
shevize this country and reduce the
workers thereof to a very low ethical
and social level by robbing them of
the god-given right to work for
nothing if they saw fit. Let us sup
pose by way of illustration that the
daughter of manufacturer wanted
to divorce a count so that she could
marry a prince. She would need ex-
ira money to buy off the count in
order to purchase the prince. And
suppose her fathers loyal slaves were
aching to contribute few extra hours
gratis to the marital experiments of
their employers daughter, Hollands
bill, if passed into law would be the
means of leaving a useless count on a
fair lady's arm and lonely prince
pining away in his garnet or gazing
thru restaurant windows at food he
could not buy.
THE American workers are more
L alphabetically minded than is good
for them. Too many of them believe
that without capitalists there would
be no work for them to do, no food
for them to eat and no clothes for
them to wear. They do not realize
that the boss hires them in order to
profit from their labor rather than to
play the role of a humanitarian in
business for the purpose of putting
food in the mouths of the hungry. But
we dare say that a canvass of the
workingclass population of the United
States would not subscribe to the in
dignation professed by "The Michigan
Manufacturer and Financial Record"
over the introduction of Hollands bill.
They would exchange lot of abstract
freedom for few hours out of the
factory or time and half for extra
hours inside Of it.
HERE is human interest story
Il with kick: William Keuntze Of
Hoboken finds STATS in his envelope
on every pay day. Mrs. Keuntze puts
her trade mark on $34.25 of that
amount and she agreed that her reck-
less husband could hold on to the bal
ance, provided he spent it on daily
lunch, five cent cigar and a weekly
package of chewing gum. Evidently
William was saving his allowance,
which made Mrs. Keuntze duly sus-
picious. II believe he wanted to squan-
der that fifty cents on other womep,"
she told the Judge. His honor being
a man Of the world could not see what
a fellow could do nowadays in view Of
the high cost of living, with fifty
cents, so he dismissed the case, re-
turning Mr.. Keuntz to the status quo,
but the flea of suspicion still bites the
Jealous spouse, her theory being that
what Mr.. Keuntze saves by the week
he spends by the month.
THAT little kidnapping escapade
i cost Aimee Semple MACPHERSON
dearly. Confessions should now be in
order. Her life since she returned
from the desert, footsore and weary,
but with her most priceless heritage
intact, has been one disappointment
after another. Her mother broke with
her, her orchestra leader left her be-
cause she bobbed her hair, and worse
still, organized rival church. The
unkindest cut of all comes from the
attorney who defended her against the |
Devil ct al, in Los Angeles court. He |
is suing her for $500, the balance
of his fee for saving beautiful soul
from Satan. Old Nick is jolly good
fighter. He never quits.
CLIPPINGS come from friend and