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Holland Files Eight Hour Day Bill For Michigan
A lengthy legislative roundup reports Rep. John Holland to introduce an eight hour workday bill. Other items include a drastic marriage and divorce reform proposal, a move to abolish the electoral college, state regulation of auto buses, a poll tax style registration plan, and revisions to the corporation franchise tax plus notable resignations and Escanaba’s tax dilemma.
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Holland
Michigan
John Holland
Frank Covert
Glen Gillespie
Sixth Judicial District
Louis H. Fead
Newberry
Wakefield
Electoral College
Congress
Groesbeck
White House
William M. Connelly
Spring Take
John B. Corliss, Jr
Detroit
State Administrative Board
State Bureau of Registration
Corliss
Treasuries
Treasury
Special Legislative Tax Commission
Michigan Manufacturers’ Association
Tax Commission
Wiley
Merlin Wiley
John E. Bird
State Supreme Court
Franz. Kuhn
Luther L. Wright
Public Instruction
State School For the Deaf
Knt
Samuel Odell
Public Utilities Commission
Escanaba
Cty
Ypoevision