Evening star., 1928-10-02

of patting on the back. The labor
plank this year claims credit for every-
Thing. even Tor the workers compensa-
ton act that was signed by Martin
tGlynn. The real fact OF thc matter is
that they have done every human thing
they could to cripple the labor depart
ment, to reduce its efficiency and to
retard the operation of the workmen s
compensation division. In 1925 the
first thing that came from the Senate
was an investigating committee headed
by Senator Whitley of Rochester. He
went Gown to New YORK and made a
searching investigation. He came back
with the report and said that it was
absolutely necessary if this commission
was going to function 100 per cent that
there be two more industrial commits
sionorS and four or five more referees.
Why? Because they amended the
Eworkmcns compensation act to cut
dent before ccn1D2ns2 ton ccHanl enced.
This ccided over 100000 new cesaS
to be considered il year. and what
happened? Why, that had confer
crce end rather than let the. Demo-
Fcratic governor have the Gppoin;m-nt
IF two people they would Sccncr let
the workirgman wait ano. her year. Cap
piause)
Question Of Labor.
Every two years In the oT-year there
is 2n attack made upon the labor &C.
Dartn1ent In 1923 they used an organ
iZatlon of business men and ifnme6i-
ately constituted myself a Moreland
commissioner under the executive law
and s~nt for ell the business incn and
said What do you know about it?"and
not one of therl knew anything about
It. daughter sn1 spplause.)
And when we got all finished. not
one of them he'd a wcrd Of complaint
to make against the oneration of the
labor department. They Started 1t
right of the BEGINNING of this year.
As5embjynan Corncar from Jefferson
County said that there was graft and
crookedness In the Department. of
Labor. Just like that stepped right
On him and appointed Prof. Lindsay
Eogers of Columbia University More
and commissioner under the executive
law. and the minute his commission
was signed he sent man up with a
ciIbnoena and he put it in the assem-
blyman's han6s end said, Gems down
here and make that good"
And when The sssemblymen came
downstairs he sai6, The newspaper
'11"n did not properly report what 1
said" daughter and applause) He
rrawfe1 out of it, And the rest, of
them shut up after that because that
w2s warning. daughter and ap-
piauss)
Taking the 1s-hour law. Just look
a. the s. lsolass hattle that was made
against that for eight years. And when
they finally did rass it th2y wordad it
1 in aF
ES-hour law it is h3la hours.
/ But why battle these thii1rs? Why
keep putting them off and putting them
of j and putting tl:em of? Must no
+ aaflfs1 follow the party that 50 conducts
lits1]f? Is it wise thing for ne recDle
of this State to put the stamp of an
provai upon the political party that is
1 responsible for that kind of record?
That is the big question. That is what
the peoole of this State rave got to
thilk about this Fall. LOOK out about
the letter of recommendation that YOU
give them. Be very careful If that
record can be Ok. d by the electorate OF
this State, 1t will be the end If any
constructive reform during probably the
lifetime Of raiority cf the people that
are in this hall tonight.
II after eight years Of that kind of
conduct toward the State. the SOW
crcignty Is going into the ballot box and
nat them on the back AMI say. 'WaII
4 done. nv good and noble servant: we'll
! done'-if you are going to do that look
out for what the future has In store.
Child welfare. There is great credit
for this in the platform. We have boards
CT child welfare only in such counties
Whsre there Is q strong local sentiment
for their creation. The one thing that
would make eTery county create them
would be a State subsidy, 50 that thc
county that is not sufficiently Interested
II caring for o-ptan children to set IL,
commission Of its own would find the',
have to pay for the other commission
that are created. This is t'le nulci-et
/ way to rake item CONF into tie t.rl.
Ert could you q that? Tot a chance
and no reason against it.
| Ecuyiny Bead.
The State Soarl OF TI1;i5,1g.
When / suggested FRS q HOUSING
commission, Senator Knight got IN 81
the floor Of the senat3 AMI said. Smith
is Socialist" 1,aughtcr)
Well, that ives in January. but Iv the
month of March. wie1 Senator xi1i-nt
beTcn to hear from ti,a poonlc in ia.
big cities, he felt little differently
aoout it.
H s'id, Wei, mavbe hc is only half
a f:o"iali5t, 81 we. will give him c.>out
half what he is looking for" But un-
fortunately the half that they retained
was the Carburctor. They ra-c me a
perfectly coed automobile called a State
Fons.nT Commission, but before t,ey
a2llYcred it they removed the carburctc::.
and the carburccor in the State house
inC plan was the State land bank.
That was the th.nr that yyas to n-o-
sllca the money. That they dcnied.
That they held tco socialists. The rest
cf 1t they gaze US. Eut they dare not 20
Gown to New York. or for that matter
into any city in the State. where this
problem is understood and ask for a. sin
Tie hit CT credit for it, because they do
not deserve 1t. tAoplaI5e.)
Takes u r:yor.t. susi.c..
Nov ". cc,,;- to the suot.ct that Is
a22r fnd dccr 10 m. and thst Is tllo
F.lb1cc5 Ct chr rcr,;5 cni parSways. I
link the Soy cf thc po"'-5 and n.r,.-
way Gcvc'cpm-nt in III, State of New
Ecrz constitutes IS Interesting a story
IS fn7bcdy would want to listen to,
Pricr to 1923 we had no co-ordinatetl
system CT dealing with. parks. They
were spread cut all over the. State, un-
der commissioners here and under
trustees th~re, and everybody in tn,
legislature scrambled Ground trying to
Go the best they could to get appropri-
atoms fer their paTticuler park. In
1925 {, H. su--'~. SCH We set UP a
State council OF parks 10 supervise ap-