The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30

46-HOUR BILL
ARE DEFEATED
Instead, Rush Measure
to Hunt with Bows

ALBANY, N. V, March 90
up - Governor Roosevelt n
bounced his approval of % bills to-
lay, including a Baumes crime COM
mission measure sponsored by As
'emblyman Burton d. Esmond, vice
hartman Of the committee, requir-
ng a stenographic report of prelim-
nary proceedings in a case involv-
ng the commission of a felony.
While the governor was signing a
ew bills of rather small Importance,
Including one allowing the hunting
# game with bows and arrows, po-
itical circles were worrying over the
money question. The deadlock over
appropriations continues, and there
nay be an extra session.
No one but several million work
RS in New York is worried over the
act that the legislature did not one
ingle thing to make the lot of a
yorker easier.
Not one of the mildly progressive
ills called social legislation" or
labor legislation" had a chance to
,ass. Not one Of them but would
ave been vetoed by Roosevelt if it
ad passed.
Defeat 4S-Hour Bill.
The 4S-hour law for working wo-
aen and children did not get
through even one house. The repub-
leans and democrats were both very
Wiling to see it die, for big business
sing child slaves and working wo-
aen any number of hours a week
there the new unions have not or
'anized yet, are not going to cut
own on the tasks they pile on their
Employees, nor are they going to let
heir own legislators pass any law
0 tighten those tasks.
No old age pension bill was
assed, or even seriously considered.
The anti-loan shark bill was cas-
y defeated. Loaning money at
sury to hard-up workers is a good
usiness, and this is a business adj
Illustration.
The salary enforcement bills fail
d. If a worker is unable to collect
is wages, that is more profit for
ae employer, and it is employers
nat run a legislature under capital !
im. not the workers.
The New York State Federation |
{ Labor's mild, weak, practically |
seless Injunction bill did not get |
ut of committee, even tho President /
ullivan Of the state federation took
lawyer and two other officials on
iunket around the state capital, |
ssuring majority d minority /
eaders that the bill was not against |
functions, but only to provide the
Mon lawyer chance to present |
rguments to the judge before the
junction issued.
Employer Deserves Injunction"
AT most it would mean delay /
{ "a hours in an injunction is to
: issued" Sullivan explained to the
ew York Trades and Labor Coun-
i, when he spoke to them last
eek. "Any employer who deserves
n injunction could get one under
lr bill"
But the legislators didn't think it
pod policy to let even this poor
hing live, and it was smothered in
ne committee.
Most of the bills which did pass
re bad. The multiple dwellings,
II permits tenement houses to build
70 or three times as high as now.
The primary election law is re-
saled, and the old direct primaries
3tablished, thing which Tammany
ants as well as the republicans.
The new poor law makes life
arder on those their employers
ave used up, and thrown aside.
The new workmen's compensation
ii, extending the category of oc-
ipations which can draw the in
red man state compensation was
lssed in such mutilated form that
4 is practically useless, and makes
harder to get compensation in
cod of aocio,