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PAGE TWO WORK HOURS BILL HAS BECOME LAW But Amendments Tacked on Greatly Curtail Its Ef fectiveness Dally Dispatch Bnrenu, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENiKY AVERILL. Raleigh, March 24-The maximum hour bill, in principle limiting em ployment of males to 55 hours week - ]y and of female to 48 hours, has be come the law of North Carolina, al though the measure has been so load ed down with amendments that its original shape is hardly distinguish able. Its original -sponsors are, in gene ral, glad that some sort of a bill was finally passed, though they are ad mittedly far from satisfied with the law as it was ultimately enacted. Representative D. Lacy Mcßride Cumberland, who stuck to the bill through thick and thin, battled right down to the bitter end for its enact ment, expressed the tenor of those who favor shorter hours in North Carolina. He said: “I feel that we have accomplished » h * \ /ft Prescription filled to individual order at BUS STATION Phone 18 Henderson, N. C. IW ii ; [iW HARNESS EVERYTHING /%/ horses^A Hame strings 20c and 15c^Th Harness snaps s c, 8c and 10c each Plow bridles SL2S each, up Harness leather, 1 lb. asst, bundles, 48c lb. Harness leather, cut to order 95 c lb. Special horse collar ___ $1.50, a real value LOW CASH PRICES. Watkins Hardware Co. Phone 46 Henderson, N. C. the maximum that could be expected under the present set-up in North Carolina. We have, at least, secured recognition of the - principle that the workers have a right to be protected from long hours injurious to their health and destructive of their hap piness. "We now have a starting point for further improvements. Any changes in the law at later legislative sessions must almost necessarily be for the better. The Cumberlander said he was a very personal feeling with respect to working hours, pointing to the fact that he has himself worked 14-hour night shifts in textile mills of Cabar rus county. "When I was going to school, I worked in mills on shifts that were 14 hours long," he said, “I believe the present measure, inadequate as it is, will be of very positive benefit to :housands of North Carolina workers. We couldn’t get all we wanted, but we got something.” So many amendments were added :o the bill —either in the House or in the Senate —that it will be some time before a connected idea can be gain ed of the exact purport of the mea sure, which will be the law of North Carolina after July 1. Numerous categories of employes have been excepted from the provi iions and numerous exceptions in the number of hours which may be work ad in "emergencies” have been made. The outstandingly distasteful amend ment to original sponsors of the bill is that which made the entire meas ure inoperative as to businesses in A'hich the. ; a c c\_‘ . or employes. “This is discrimination of a very bad sort,” said Representative Mc- Bryde in commenting on the amend ment, “I want it made clear that it was not advocated nor supported by those who originally introduced the bill. We fought the amendment”. The Cumberland law-maker said that the bill would be of particular benefit to employes of the smaller textile mills, many of whom are work ing 11 and 12 hour shifts at present. The larger textile mills are operat ing on shorter work schedules than are provided in the bill, he said. “But there are many small mills down near my home in Fayetteville, which are working their people on hours at small pay,” he said. He pointed out that the provision limiting employment of women to 48 hours weekly meant that textile mills working men and women side by side would be, in effect, forced to cut the working hours of their male employes to 48 weekly, rather than to the 55 allowed in the bill. He adverted to reports of the Mc- Lean mill strike at Lumberton and said the maximum hour bill would prevent troubles of that sort, wftere reports are that the employes are wo: king 11 and 12 hours daily, at pay rates from 10 to 25 cents per hour and with an average pay rate of °0 cents. One “Ickes” Bill Enacted Into Law (Continued from F age One.) that it has been so re-written at the behest of “special interests” that it is not only worthless, but is positively dangerous as a possible restriction on non-existing powers of municipalities to engage in revenue-producing enter prises. It was passed in the Senate by the votes of those who originally opposed it and over the vigorous efforts of its original advocates. A roll call resulted in a 22-22 tie and Lieutenant Gover nor W. P. Horton voted for the meas ure to break the deadlock. The original bill provided that coun ties, cities and towns might issue re venue bonds for revenue producing undertakings upon a majority vote of members of their governing bodies present; that these governmental units might engage in these under takings “within and without” their territorial limits; and that there should be no liability on the unit ex cept upon the bonds themselves. The municipalities would be au thorized under the original bill to en gage in the power business, erecting dams, etc., any distance from their limits. This drew the undying opposi tion of the power interests. Every amendment written into the bill is directly to the advantage of the ffENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1937 power interests. The first amendment confines mu nicipalities to operation of revenue un dertakings within their limits and within territory “contiguous thereto,” a vague and almost meangingless de finition which is a wide open invita tion to special interests to carry into court any effort by a municipality to build a power line, or an airport, or a waterworks or any other project outside its limits, opponents of the amended bill believe. The second amendment throws fur ther obstacles in the path of any mu nicipality so inconsiderate of the great power interests as to attempt to give its citizens cheaper power thro ugh municipal plants. It provides that before any i.ni'i'Vjpality shall be per mitted tc engage in any enterprise competing with a private business, it must secure a certificate of conven ience and necessity from the utility commission. A third amendment requires that bonds issued under provisions of the act must have the approval of the Local Government Commission in Ra- An amendment which would have made it almost impossible to tell whether or not the bonds were legally issued, was adopted by the Senate, but finally stricken out when the House declined to confer and a conference committee was appointed. Hoey Will Decide Appointments Soon (Continued from Page One.) mission appointments about the last week in April. The new law provides for the appointment of ten members of the State Highway and Public Works Commission and one member from the State as a whole, to be the chairman, the ten members to be so selected that each will represent a district. These districts are to be set up by the new commission when it meets. But the governor is ex pected to have most of the say-so as to how these districts shall be de fined. The governor must also appoint a director of old age assistance, who will be in direct charge of the admin istration of the old age pension law, as well as make many other lesser appointments. Before July 1 he must appoint two additional Supreme Court judges, an additional superior court judge, and appoint or reappoint num erous department and divisions heads. Governor Hoey Is Highly Satisfied With Legislature (Continued from Page One.) commendations made by Governor Hoey which the aesembly ignored was his recommendation for the enact ment of a reapportionment law and for a Statewide referendum on liquor control. “On the whole, the 1937 session of the General Assembly was one of the most constructive and harmonious sessions I have ever seen,” Governor Hoey said today. “The members show ed a most businesslike and harmon ious spirit and did a tremendous a mount of work in a comparatively short period of time. They are to be commended. “In summing up this session, I would say that the General Assembly ihas been economical without being niggardly; that it, has tended towards the ideal without losing touch with the practical and that it has contem plated the future without neglecting present needs. “Thie members at all times showedl a deep insight into and understand ing of the problems before them, work, ed hard and diligently to find a fair and satisfactory solution of these problems. They have been as liberal as they could be, considering the State’s revenue limitations, though possibly not as liberal as they want ed to be. « “I feel confident that the people of the State are going to be more and more pleased with the work done by this General Assembly as time goes by and they have a chance to look at this work with a better perspective. For it has greatly increased govern mental service to all the people, but with no material increase in taxes.” Social Security First. Os the long list of measures enact ed which he advocated, Governor Hoey regards the carrying out of his social security program the most im portant, he indicated. He also regards the enactment of the free textbookg law as of far-reaching importance both to the parents and school chil dren. Other measures which he re gards as of unusual importance to the people of the State are those setting up a Statewide probation system for those convicted of first offenses, set ting up a State bureau of identifica tion and investigation, the measure reorganizing the State Highway and T-'ublic Works Commission, the law providing for additional aid for adult education, for more vocational educa tion and others. “I am firly convinced that the en actment of the social security pro gram, as a result of which more than $8,000,000 a year will be provided for old age pensions, aid to dependent children, aid for the blind and unem ployment insurance, is the most out standing accomplishment of this Gen eral Assembly,” Governor Hoey said. “It also shows that the General As sembly now fully recognizes the re sponsibility of the State to provide more adequately for the more under privileged and dependent people in its population. Great good is going to come from this legislation designed to make the last days of the older de pendent people happier and more com sortable. “The law providing for free text books in the elementary grades, and which later on will be expanded into the high school grades, is also going to be of great benefit both to the par ents and to the school children. It will save the parents at least $2,000,000 a: year they have heretofore had to spend for the purchase of textbooks and will assure the ohildren of more efficient instruction by supplying each with the books needed when they are needed. It should greatly reduce the number of failure and repeaters in the public schools.” Chrysler, Lewis Confer ence Yet Without Accord % (Continued from Fage One.) to settle the Chrysler strike involving about 80,000 persons. CONFERENCE RECESSES WITHOUT ANNOUNCEMENT Lansing, Mich., March 24. —(AP) — Governor Murphy’s automobile strike conference adjourned at 1:30 p. m. until 3 o’clock this afternoon. Mur phy’s only comment was the confer ence so far has “been satisfactory.” None of the other conferees made any statement. The governor denied any settlement had been reached, and said there had been no communication between any one of the conferees and any one in Washington. The recess taken here came shortly after Representative Rabaut, Demo crat, Michigan, had “announced” in the National House of Representa tives a settlement had been conclud ed and would be announced at 3 p. m. When the conference here resumes, the governor said, Homer Martin, pre sident of the striking U. A. W. A., and other union officials may join the discussions, which this morning brought together Chrysler and John Lewis. LARGE SCALE EVICTIONS ON WIDE STRIKE FRONT .. (By The Associated Press.) Large scale eviction of sitdown strikers and the start of a new par ley in the nation’s biggest industrial dispute raised hopes today for settle ment of several controversies on the strike front. In a number of disputes employers have made evacuation of their fac tories and business establishments a prerequisite to negotiations on strik ers’ demand. Chicago was free from sitdown strikes for the first time in a month after police dislodged hundreds of workers from plants and stores. Sit ters also were evicted in several other states. Prospect of peace in the Chrysler Motor Corporation strike, involving 60,000 workers, brightened after Gov ernor Frank Murphy, of Michigan, succeeded in arranging a conference at Detroit between Walter Chrysler of the corporation, and John Lewis, C. I. O. chairman. An orderly throng massed in 1 New 112" Ford V-8 Stake FORD brings you trucks with a oline economy that is outstanding! choice of two great V-8 engines— You will also find many other im each designed by Ford engineers spe- provements which insure increased cifically for the work you want it to economy of operation and upkeep; oOm do. 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