The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-30
Committee OkeYs
Three Labor Bills
Labor Sub Committee Rec
cnmends Amended Ap-
premiership Measure
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

oOluI1iDuS, w. IlISC DlIlo SpOiiooiS w
by the Ohio State Federation Of La
Dor was recommended for passage last
week by the House Labor Committee,
with only one dissenting vote being
cast against one of the measures.
The measures were House Bill No.
| 237, changing the name Of the De-
oartment of Industrial Relations to the
Department Of Labor; House Bill No
iC0, containing amendments to the
workmen's compensation law, and
House Bill No. 129, providing a 40
hour work week on public projects.
A subcommittee composed of Rep
resentatives Ora h m Kirkpatrick.
Licking co., Michael P. O'Brien, Guy
lhoga CO., and Henry F. Cordes, Ham,
lton-co., submitted amendments tc
House Bill 2l9, establishing standards
for apprentice training, and will rec
)mmend passage Of the amended bill
when it is again considered by the
whole Labor Committee this week.
House Bill No. 237 was introduced
by Representative Albert F. Stokes
Lancaster, and is part of the legis-
lative program of the Ohio State Fed
Grafton of Labor and a platform pledge
If the Republican Party.
Opposition to the measure, express
ed by Don Martin, secretary of the
ohio Manufacturers Association, was
answered by Thomas j. Donnelly, Sec
retary- Treasurer of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, who told the
Committee that the proposed change
vas proper one, inasmuch as the De-
partment administered and enforced
the labor laws of the state.
Others speaking for the bill were
President M. j. Lyden and Vice Presi-
dent Arnold Bill of the Ohio State Fed
eration Of Labor; Charles j. Case, sec
cetary of the Ohio State Building and
Construction Trades Council, and
George A. Strain, Director of the De-
partment of Industrial Relations.
Representative Kirkpatrick express
ed the opinion that at is about time
that we started showing voters that
our Republican) platform pledges
mean something" and moved that the
bill be recommended for passage to
the House of Representatives The
motion carried by unanimous vote.
No opposition was voiced against
House Bill No. 129, establishing 40
hour work week on public projects
after Labor representatives Donnelly
Lyden and Bill had explained to the
Committee that the measure merely
placed in the statutes a work week
prevailing on construction projects
where union labor is employed.
The proposed law is also part OF
the legislative program of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor, and was
introduced in the House by Represent
ative w. II. Whetro, lronton. The bill
was recommended for passage by {
unanimous vote.
House Bill No. 400, introduced b!
Representative f. T.. Addison, Colum
bus, contains amendments to the
workmen's compensation law which
were agreed upon by joint negoti
ating committee of employer and EN-
ployes representatives.
A companion bill has been approved
by the Senate Commerce and Labor
Committee, and early action on the
amendments is anticipated. Repre-
sentative O'Brien cast the only dis
senting vote on motion to recon
mend the bill for passage.
In completing it's actions for th'
week, the Committee voted down a bill
sponsored by Representative O'Briel
which would include loss of hearing
as a compensate industrial injury
and referred the matter to the employ
er-employe negotiating committee fo,
consideration.
The House Committee on Organiza
tion of State Government approved
House Bill No. IA, increasing the stat'
civil service commission to three in
stead of two member board and in
creasing the salary of the commission
secretary. Representatives of h
State, County and Municipal Employe
Union were successful in havin,
amendments improving the appea
procedure and seniority ratings incor
porated in the measure.
In the Senate, the Committee OF
Commerce and Labor unanimousl.
recommended for passage Senate Bill
No. us, introduced by Senator Horac
C. keifer, Springfield, which clarifie
the duties of the four regional Claim
Boards of the Industrial Commission
The measure was opposed by attor
neyS practicing before the lndustria
Commission and representatives of tn
Ohio Manufacturers Association.
Constitutionality of the Claim
Boards has been attacked, and sui
is now pending in the Supreme Court
Senate Bill No. llS would eliminat
the objections raised on the question
of the constitutional rights of tn
Boards to hear and decide claims.