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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
6
Michigan reports adjournment from May 14 to June 1 as legislators face hundreds of proposed laws. Civil service reforms, tax revisions, education funding, liquor changes, and state aid to schools and libraries loom large while sessions lengthen.
Michigan Education Association sponsors bills to lift the annual school aid from 38 million to 45 million dollars. Rep M Clyde Stout of Ionia signals House funds limits as priorities shift toward hospitals and neglected institutions. Senate measures touch civil service secret ballots driving under influence felonies and prison goods sales to counties. Repeals on college teacher exemptions and juror service rules for ministers railroad workers National Guard doctors and dentists are noted.
Governor Murphy’s minimum wage plan in Michigan met sit down strikes and costly clashes before unions won recognition to bargain collectively. The Supreme Court upheld state power to fix wages hours and prices and federal enforcement of collective bargaining, reviving Murphy’s New Deal push.
Michigan lawmakers consider minimum wage and equal pay measures for women and men. A bill by Rep. Snow would empower the labor department to set fair living wages for women and children, affecting beer garden waitresses and night club hostesses, with a companion Senate bill approved by the Michigan Manufacturers' Association.
An item notes H F Wheeler of Grand Rapids mailed a communication to the accident bureau at police headquarters, one block away, which was not received for two years and nine months. Also mentions 85 year old William Brown of Round Rock Texas who can walk on his hands. The piece ends with a quip about politeness and a man not interrupting his wife.
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