Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Senate Votes for
Aid by Counties

SACRAMENTO. March S5. CUP
The bill to return California re-
lief control to the counties today
bore the 27-l3 endorsement of the
senate, but its sponsors were un-
certain what would happen when
administration forces IN the assem-
bly, get TO work on it.
Loaded with amendments. the
measure which passed the senate
last night guarantees that the state
Will pay two-thirds of the relief
cost and the county one third, with
the state paying 95 per cent of any
county expense over the relief costs
of the l939-40 fiscal year. 1t also
would abolish the state relief ad-
ministration.
Two of the most controversial is
sues of the current session were on
today's calendar. The senate made
a special order of business this af-
ternoon on bills outlawing hot
cargo" secondary boycotts and clos
ed shop contracts. The senate fin
ancial institutions committee took
up the building and loan reorganiz-
alton measures.
After long debate on its scope. the
assembly unanimously passed ana
sent TO the senate the Tenney bill
TO require the Communist party,
Nazi Bund and other alleged sub
versive organizations to register
their membership rolls. constitution
and other facts with the secretary
of state. Assemblyman Jack Tenney.
sponsor of the bill, emphasized it
would not embrace fraternities,
lodges nor labor unions.
Senator John Phillips failed to
restore to his county relief bill the
original plan for an equalization
fund under supervision of the state
controller to assist counties in fin
ancing relief. The bill was not pass
ed by the senate until Phillips and
: his co-authors promised the assem-
bly, would amend the bill to include
provisions of a companion bill to
appropriate $l6,00o.000 as a sub
sidy'' to counties for old age pen
sion costs in the next biennium.
House action on the county relief
bill must be delayed until the gov
ernor's biennial budget is passed,
and that may take several weeks.
The county relief bill was the
hinge of the Phillips-Daley relief
reform program. There are seven
related bills, each dependent on
passage of the Others. Gov. Culbert
L. Olson has said he would veto any
such bill to reach his desk.
The assembly ways and means
committee last night slashed more
than S2,lOO000 from Olson's $780,
100000 budget, bringing total cuts
to nearly S3,000,000 with revision
only partly completed. Cuts includ-
ed abolition of the division of i'm
migration and housing, directed by
Carey McWilliams. There are bills
in both houses TO abolish that divi-
sion and merge its functions into
the department of public health at
a budget saving of about 100000
The committee also turned Gown
a requested appropriation Of Sl56,000
for department of labor statistics.
More cuts are expected.
Favorable reports by the ASSEMBLY
labor committee were on bills re-
quiring that the sic weekly mini |
mum wage be made TO apply TO |
men; prohibiting employers from
taking tips from employees or de-
Quoting tips from wages; the Ba-
shore bill creating a tilree-member
state labor relations board; and a
bill setting maximum hours and
overtime pay for household en-
ployes (similar TO one defeated in
the senate last week)).
The senate judiciary committee
approved an assembly-passed bill
disqualifying from public office
those who "by oath bind themselves
to support military or political ac-
tivities" of foreign nation. Also
approved was a bill requiring all