fHE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 11, 1917.
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Nebraska
HOUSE COMMITTEE
JOINS LABOR BILLS
Shannon and McAllister Meas
ures Combined With Pro
vision for 66-Hour
Week.
FARM LABOR NOT LIMITED
(From . 8taff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, March 10. (Special.)
While the hired man on the farm is
earning hit daily wage by the weat
of hit brow, working lixteen hours
a day, and the domestic in the home
it drudging away from 6 in the morn
ing until 9 at night, all other people
who work for a living will be privi
leged to work but eight hours a day
for seven days of the week, or fifty
seven hours for the entire week.
This is the way which the com
mittee on labor in the house has
finally fixed up the Shannon bill,
House Roll 281, and the McAllister
bill, House Roll 77, combining the
two and hyphenating the names of
the two introducers into one bill un
der the former number. '
CaU It Class Legislation.
Considerable comment has arisen
as to just why the farm laborer and
the domestic should be left out of
the operation of the law when all
other classes of labor, which includes
manufacturing, mechanical or mer
cantile establishment, laundry, hotel,
restaurant, office, or by any public
service or municipal corporation, etc.,
should be favored, and the question
cornea up and it being expressed by
members that it it limply class legis
lation and cannot atand the test of
the courts from a constitutional
standpoint, and tome of them are of
the opinion that the people asking
for legislation of thit kind do not
really repretent the laboring classes.
They call attention to the fact that
two yeara ago people appeared be
fore the legislature claiming that they
represented the working girlt of
Omaha and tecured the passage of a
bill calling for nine hours a day and
a limit of fifty-four hourt each week.
Immediately after the law went into
effect the labor bureau received a
number of letter! from girlt working
in establishment! in Omaha claiming
that the bill deprived them of the
Saturday half-holiday. They had been
ill the habit of taking a ahort noon
hour and working a short time after
5 o'clock, a proposition perfectly sat
isfactory to their employers, and had
thus been able to put in enough extra
time during the week to give them
the half-day off on Saturday. Under
the nine-hour-a-day law they were
compelled to give up the half-day off
on Saturday because they could not
work overtime- during the week.
Time and Half for Overtime. ,
Some of the members insist that
the present bill will work the same
hardship on the class of working peo
ple who are perfectly satisfied to have
the matter left to any contract they
may make with the people for whom
they work.
Under the present bill, at It stands
amended by the committee, an em
ploye and bis employer can make a
contract for overtime work, but the
pay shall be for time and a ball.
ine proposition which it causing
comment, more than anything else,
it jutt why a legislature composed
to largely of those interested in ag
riculture should favor a law fixing the
hours of labor for everybody else
who employes men and women and
leave their own hired hands entirely
unprotected and forced to work as
long as they may desire to force them
to to do.
Oberfelder Explains
New Workmen Rates
Scottsbluff, Neb., March 10. (Spe
cial.) Judge Joseph Oberfelder of
Sidney has been in the North Platte
valley all week meeting with the
members of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen and discussing the
new rates, effective on Mav 1. Mr.
Oberfelder hat presented the matter
so logically that he has enlisted the
friendship of large majority of the
membership who were at first opposed
to the raise of rates, who are now
more than pleased and will remain
loyal to the society.
James Archibald Dies
Of Injuries at Aurora
Aurora, Neb., March 10. (Special
Telegram. Jamet Archibald, who
wat injured fatally while resetting the
large city pump, died early this morn
ing and the body wat taken to Court
Bluffs for burial. Mr. Archibald was
71 years of age. Hit tkull was frac
tured when a chain broke while t
derrick waa lifting the Dumo. Mr.
Archibald it turvived by wife, ton and
daughter.
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Mrs. W. M. Clark is interlocutor
for the minstrels of Maple Leaf chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star, who
took their friends by storm when the
minstrel show was presented the first
time for Maple Leaf chapter. The
entertainment was then scheduled to
be given a week ago in Benson: but
on account of the scarlet fever epi
demic there it was postponed until
last night, when the minstrel show
was given at the South Side Masonic
temple. The proceeds were for the
Masonic and Eastern star funds.
Mrs. Robert Allen, Mrs. E. H. Wil
son, Mrs. W. H. rlmn, Miss Bess
Emerson and Miss Lola lillotson
take important parts in the black
face entertainment
Judge William L. Berry
Of Madison Is Dead
Madison, Neb., March 10. (Spe
cial.) Judge William L. Berry died
at 5 o'clock this morning, after an ill
ness of several months. Deceased was
well known throughout the county,
having served two yeart at countv
clerk prior to 1890. He was postmas
ter at Madison under president Lleve
land. William L. Berry was born in
r ;m. v. : taie k.:- at
of age. In 1871 he was married to
Alice Watson at Muncie, ind., and
came to Madison in 1880. His wife
died October 26, 1912. The deceased
left no near relatives. The funeral
aervicet will be held at the family
residence at 2:30 Monday afternoon,
Kev. L. W. Harper of the Methodist
church officiating;.
Three in One Family
Die of Pneumonia
North Platte, Neb., March 10.
(Special. While the body of Frank
Schick .awaited burial beside his
mother, who died on January 25,
death called a third member of the
family, George Schick dying at a local
hospital. The Schick family livet
near Genette. Less than six weeks
ago the mother, Mrs. Carolina Schick,
died from an attack of pneumonia. A
fortnight ago the two brothers,
Frank, 26 yeart old, and George, aged
22 years, were brought to a local hos
pital suffering from pneumonia. Frank
died Monday night and funeral serv
ices were held yesterday afternoon.
George died yesterday morning.
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SIFTERS TAKE HOLD
IN THE TWO HOUSES
Next Wednesday the Manner of
Pushing Measures Will
t Be Changed.
RATHER EARLY TO ACT
(From a Start Correeponden i
Lincoln, March 10. (Special Tele
gram.) Sifting committees will take
charge of the general files of both
houses next Wednesday morning.
The senate committed will consist of
five democrats and two republicans,
while the hruse committee will stand
seven and four. The personnel of the
two committees has not yet been
made up.
In the 1911 session the senate took
action on March 15, the forty-eighth
day, and the sifting committee took
charge of the file on the fiftieth day.
The house took action on March 15,
the fiftieth day, and the committee
took charge of the general file on
the fifty-second day.
In the 1913 session the senate took
action on the fifty-third day, and the
committee took charge the same day.
The house took action March 11, the
forty-third day, and the committee
took charge of the file March 17, the
forty-seventh day. I
In the 1915 session the senate took
action on March 16, the fiftieth day,
and the committee took immediate
charge. In the house action was
taken on March 10, the forty-eighth
day, and the committee took charge
the fifty-first day.
This session the senate took action
on the forty-first day, March 8, and
the sifting committee will take hold
March 14. The house took action
thit morning, March 10, the forty
ninth day," and will turn over the file
March 14.
Up until today the governor had
signed but nine bills, six of which
were appropriation measures. At the
last session on this date the official
approval of the executive had been
placed on thirty-one.
Move to Bar Lobby
During Debate on
State House Bill
(From a Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, March 10. (Special.)
The rights of the people of Nebraska
to enter the lobby of the house cham
ber during the discussion of the state
house bill next Tuesday afternoon
will be denied if certain members of
that body who oppose the building of
a new ttate house have their way.
Yesterday afternoon after adjourn
ment, Hoffmeister of Chase ap
proached the speaker and told him
that the lobby of the house would
have to be cleared during the discus
sion of the bill. He is said to have
informed others that he did not pro
pose to have friends of the bill fill the
lobby in order to help the passage of
the bill.
The lobby back of the house railing
has always been used by the public
whenever there is a discussion. There
is a high railing dividing the mem
bers from the men who pay them to
do business, but at this session there
has been a little bunch of members
who have several timet tried to pre
vent a man's constituency from ap
pearing back of the rail and watching
proceedings. Three times this coterie
of members have tried to have the
house take action against the tax
payers who have to pay the bills, but
each time have been badly outvoted.
Members worging for the new state
house appropriation are giving notice
thit morning that they desire all tax
payers who are not favorable to the
bill to come to the state house Tues
day afternoon and listen to the dis
cussion. They have enough confi
dence in the merit of their proposition
to be willing to have those who op
pose it come into the lobby or on the
floor of the house if they desire, and
listen to the discussion at close range..
Notes From West Point
And Cuming County
West Point, Neb., March 10.
(Special.) The Girls' Culture club of
the city has complied with its prom
ises and obligations respecting the
public library which it commenced at
West Point some months ago. The
club took the iniative and obtained
considerable support from the citizens
in the establishment of a public li
brary. When the institution had been
successfully started the girls turned
it over to the city on condition that
it become a municipal institution and
be fostered and cared for by the city.
The council unanimously accepted
and ordered an ordinance drawn to
cover the situation. The city attor
ney got busy and the ordinance was
placed on its passage last night.
The death of Mrs. Sophia J. Koes
ter occurred on Wednesday at her
residence in this city. She was 67
years of age and the widow of the
late John H. Koester, a pioneer of
this county. She was a native of
Oldenburg, Germany, and was the
mother of thirteen children. Ten
children survive the mother. Funeral
services will be held under the aus
pices of the Lutheran church. Inter
ment was had in Mount Hope ceme
tery. The funeral of Wendolin Lummel,
71, a farmer on the east side, occurred
Thursday. Mr. Lummel was a native
of Germany and a pioneer of this
county, having lived here forty-three
years.
The marriage of William Groth and
Miss Louise Munderloh took place at
Zion German Lutheran church on
Wednesday. Rev. William Harms,
pastor, performed the ceremony. The
attendants were Fred Groth and
George Munderloh and the Misses
Lillian and Dora Meyer. The young
people are the childrei of pioneer set
tlers and were born in the community.
They will establish their home on
their farm on the east side.
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