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Show lUSE FAVORS TS B-HOURIRR DM ALSO MEASURE COMPELLING ALL EMPLOYERS TO GIVE ONE DAY'S REST IN SEVEN-. Two Measures Vitally Affecting all the Working People of Utah Approvea by the Lower Branch of the Legislature. Salt Lake City. An act providing for a basic eight-hour day in the Industries In-dustries of the state, and an act compelling com-pelling employers to give their employees em-ployees one day's rest each week were passed on February 18 by the lower house of the legislature. Both bills are now in the hands of the senate lor further consideration. These two measures, meas-ures, vitally affecting all the working people of Utah, were passed in tn.e lower branch with but a few dissenting dissent-ing votes. Senator Joseph Chez's bill, regulating regulat-ing the establishment and operation of maternity hospitals in Utah, was unanimously un-animously passed on final reading in the upper house of the legislature on February 18 and went to the lower house for consideration and action by that body. An amendment to the corporation license li-cense law is proposed in house bill No. 123, introduced by Representative Heber Bennion of Daggett county. It exempts from the license tax insurance companies, religious, charitable and educational organizations, corporations not organized for pecuniary benefit, canal or irrigation companies or corporations cor-porations operated by the federal government. gov-ernment. The house passed senate bill No. 70, by Senator Allan T- Sanrord of Salt Lake, axithorizing cities, towns and counties to issue bonds for the construction con-struction of memorials to men who have served in the war. If the governor gov-ernor approves of this measure it will be possible for the communities of the state' to raise funds for memorials in honor of their heroes. |