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Show M THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S LABOR RECORD M - As Assemblyman, Governor and President Roosevelt has de- B m&nded the Square Deal. H As Member of the New York State Assembly he voted for 20' H Important Labor Measures, among them Hl 1 The oreation of the office of Factory Inspector. H 2. The restriction of child labor in factories and workshops. fl 3. Regulation of hours of labor of children, minors and women H in manufacturing establishments. H 4. Safeguarding of the lives and limbs of factory operatives. H 5, Establishment of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. H 6. Abolishment of tenement house cigar making in New York H 7. Protection of people who buy household goods on the install- H ment plan HF 8. Provision for the construction, regulation, survey and inspec- Hkv tion of New York City tenement houses, and the better protection m I of life and property therein. Hf 9. Regulation of wage rates of laborers employed by municipal- Hft ities. r- 10. Making employes preferred creditors. HjLv 11. Providing for building mechanics' liens. Hj 12. Prescribing the lien right of working women." irjj'l 13. Protection of mechanics and laborers engaged in sinking oil HP I or gas wells. Hf 14. Authorization of New York City to acquire title to lands for Hy" the use of the public as parks. HSe! 15. Aholishment of contract child labor in reformatory institu- Hi tions. H 16. Creation of a commission to examine into and report upon H the operation of the contract system of employing convicts. H 17. Five-cent fare on the New York City olevated railroad. Bl 18. Regulation of rates of railroad fares to bo charged within V the City of Buffalo. 1 -! 19. Incorporation of the New York City Free Circulating library. m ' 20. Construction and maintenance of free public baths by the City H' of New York. K r As Governor of New York He Signed 17 Bills - Ht 't 1. Increasing the number of factory inspectors. HflTj 2. Creating a Tenement House CommiBflion whose find- ings resulted in laws that have improved housing conditions. 3. Regulating sweatshop labor. 4. Directing the Factory Inspector to enforce the act relating to the hours of labor of railroad workmen. 5. Making the Eight-Hour and Provailing-Ratc-of-"Wnges Law effective. Amending the Labor Law 6 Empowering the Factory Inspector to enforce the provisiorl relating to scaffolding on buildings. 7. Regulating the working hours of female employes. S. Providing that stairways shall be properly lighted. 9. Prohibiting the operation of dangerous machinery by children. 10. Forbidding the employment of women and minors on polishing polish-ing or buffing wheels. 11. Directing the Factory Inspector to examine faotory boilers in places where no local laws prevail on the subject. 12. To provide and maintain seals for the use of waitresses in hotels and restaurants. 13. Reducing the hours of labor of drug store clerks. 14. Registration of laborers for municipal employment. 15. Compelling railroads to equip freight trains with airbrakes. 16. Empowering the Bureau of Labor Statistics to issue quarterly quarter-ly bulletins. 17. Increasing the salaries of New York public school teachers. Governor Roosevelt also Recommended 4 Important Matters of Legislation which the Legislature failed to pass) in regard to 1. Employers' Liability. 2. State control of employment offices. 3. State ownership of printing plant. 4. Devising means whereby free mechanics should not be brought into competition with prison labor. Ab President of the United States He Approved 28 Importarjj Measures 1. Renewing the Chinese Exclusion Act and extending its provisions pro-visions to the island territory of the United States. 2. Prohibiting the employment of Mongolian labor on irrigation' works and providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's labor on such enterprises. 3. Abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude in the Philippine Philip-pine Islands. 4. Protecting the lives of employes in mines in Territories. 5. Exempting from taxation in the District of Columbia household house-hold effectB to the value of $1,000, wearing apparel, libraries, school books, family portraits and heirlooms. 6. Providing for Government supervision of employment agencies in the District of Columbia. 7. Creating the Department of Commerce and Labor and making its head a Cabinet officer. 8. Improving the Act relating to safety appliances on railroad trains. 9. Requiring the collection of labor statistics in Hawaii. 10. For the better protection of seamen. 11. Securing the wages of employes on public works. 12. Protecting the health of motormeu and conductors on street railways in the District of Columbia. 13. For a more thorough inspection of steam vessels. 14. Safeguarding factory employes in the District of Columbia against accidents. 15. Making wages preferred claims. 16. Providing for an investigation of women and child labor in the United States. ' ". 17. Restricting child labor in the District of Columbia. IS. Incorporating the National Child Labor Committee. 19. Prohibiting foreign passport holders from entering Continental Continen-tal Territory to the detriment of labor conditions. 20. Establishing the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace. 21. Regulating the hours of labor oi railroad omploycs in the District of7 Columbia and the Territories. 22. Making railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce or operating in the District of Columbia, the Territories, the Panama Pan-ama Canal Zone, or other United States possessions, liable for injuries to, or doath of, employes while on duty. 23. Compensating Government omployes for injuries received while at work. 24. Protecting the lives of miners in the Territories and the District Dis-trict of Alaska. 25. Permitting leave of absence with pay, on Labor Day, to per diem employes of the Government. 26. Granting to injured employes on the Panama Canal absence, with pay, for time necessarily lost as a result of injuries. 28. Prohibiting peonage. It took courage to do some of the things that Roosevelt has done. In 1902 the miners, 150,000 strong, waged a desperate battle for life with the Coal Trust. The miners wanted to arbitrate. The Coal Trust said: "We have nothing to arbitrate." On one side wore the miners who wanted work at fair wages ; on the other side were the consumers, millions of working people and others, who wanted coal to burn in their grates: President Roosevelt was advised "not to interfere." He was warned that it would cost him his re-election. Nevertheless he did interfere. And the coal barons saw a new light and did arbitrate, |
