Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — WILSON’S RECORD. [ARTICLE]

WILSON’S RECORD.

Governor Wilson has worked to secure the “social and industrial Justice” which Theodore Roosevelt merely talks about. During Governor Wilson’s administration In New Jersey, the following laws have been placed on the statute books of that state: A law providing for fire escapes and amending the factory laws of New Jersey to further protect the workers. A law providing for sanitation in bake shops, and licensing the same. A law to protect the safety and health of foundry workers. A law increasing the number of factory Inspectors for the better enforcement of other factory laws. A law prohibiting the employment of children In mercantile establishments during school hours, and prohibiting night work for children. A law prohibiting the employment of young boys as telephone and telegraph messengers at night in large cities. The minimum age for night messengers in cities of the first class Is fixed at twenty-one years, In cities of the second class at eighteen years. An employer’s liability arfcl compensation law. A law regulating and licensing employment agencies. A law providing for an eight-hour day on state, county and municipal work. This is only a partial record of the achievements of the Woodrow Wilson administration In New Jersey in the line of sociological progress alone. In less than two years as governor. Woodrow Wilson accomplished ten times more actual reform than Theodore Roosevelt put into effect during more than seven years as president— Chicago Journal. - t