Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1908 — LATE NEWS BY WIRE [ARTICLE]

LATE NEWS BY WIRE

BILL THAT REGULATES WAGES

Employer* Must Pay Such as the Labor Commissioner Fixes, He Having Arbitrary Power. Guthrie, Okla., May 14.—The bouse has accepted the senate bill demanded by the union labor people of the state, which is remarkable in that it provides that all business concerns must report their business In detail and total to the labor commissioner, and gives the latter absolute power to fix wages.

A scene was enacted on the floor ■when Representative Boyle, a spokesman of union labor, threatened the members with defeat in the bouse of the unions if they failed to support the bill. Under the bill wages will bebased on the profits of the employer, with arbitrary power in the hands of the commissioner.