New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1928, Page 16

HEXICO MAY GET NEW LABOR LAW Code Calls lor Mnimum Wage and Puid Yacations Mexico City, Nov. 16 UP—A mini- | mum wage and annual vacations with pay would be assured workers in Mexico under a labor code which Emilio Portes Gil, Mexico's incom- | ing president, intends to submit to congress. The Code Other provisions of the code in- clude: Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes. Setting up of an elaborate system of arbitration courts. | Forbidding labor by children un- der 12. Restriction of labor by minors and women. An eight hour day and a six day week. Conscription of labor in case of | national mneed. Abolition of saloons and gambling houses in labor centers. Senor Portes Gil. who now is secretary of interior, placed his pro- posals before the congress of work- ers and employers. He said they had been prepared under his super- vislon and represented his own ideas as to proper labor laws and | also those of the late President- | Elect Alvaro Obregon. Cost of Living Once approved by the congress. it was explained that the code would be presented to the Mexican national congress for enactment into law. | The minimum wage proposed would be fixed in accordance with the cost of living. Obligatory an- nual vacations with pay would be provided and also the workers would have to be granted four an- | nual holidays. The right to strike would be rec- ognized but violence forbidden. Voluntary arbitration would be pro- vided and in case this failed obli- gatory arbitration. Each plant would have an arbi- tration tribunal composed equally of representatives of workers and employers which would compose labor differences and have power to advise as to the conduct of the business. Disputes the company courts were unable to settle would go to municipal courts of three members —a judge appointed by the gov- ernor of the state. Forbidden to Work ‘Women about to become mothers | would be forbidden to do physical labor three months before child- birth. They would be entitled to full wages for one month after child- birth and also be granted two rest | periods during a shift to nurse their children. Minors under 16 years of age would be prohibited from working | unless they could show a primary school eertificate and they would not be paid lower wages than adults who were doing the same work. Every able bodied citizen would have to learn a trade or profession and work at it at least one year in Mexico. When the nation's needs demanded it he would have to| place himself at the disposal of the nation and work at least one month in a post assigned by labor au- thorities. Seventy per cent of the workers in every factory would have to be Mexicans, and only Spanish- speaking persons would be allowed to occupy the posts of managers, superintendents, doctors and fore- men. Ban Saloons Saloons and gambling houses would be banned in labor centers. Employers would be obliged to ob- tain consent of the labor court be- fore closing their businesses and then give employes a month’s no- tice. A government obligatory in- surance organization would be founded to,which employes would contribute five per cent of their salaries and employers seven per cent of salaries paid out. EXPATRIATES JOSH AMERICAN LIVING Some of These in Paris Use Harsh Words Parls, Nov. 16 UP—It might in-| terest America to know that some of her voluntary expatriates who make up the racial literary element of the famous Latin Quarter con- sider the United States too ‘“early Victorian." “Transition,” a publication boast- ing that it is a century ahead of contemporary literature, canvassed these American -expatriates and asked why they prefer to live out- side of America. “The United States is just now the oldest country in the world. There always is an oldest country and she is it; it is she who is the mother of Twentieth Century civil- ization,” replied Miss Gertrude Stein, famous radical writer and author of “Tender Buttons” the work which fifteen years ago started the literary onslaught against the mechanized world, “Xmerica is mow Victorian, very early Victorian, She is a rich and well nourished home but not a place to work.” The American composer, George Anthell, creator of mechanical opera and other musical novelties, says that “musically it is impos- sible to live in America. My Polish origin makes me love the ground I was born upon, New Jersey." Hilaire Hiler, who paints pink | negroes and s an advanced thinker among artists, prefers, to live out- side America because “in America there are no facilities for the en- joyment of leisure or apparatuses for reflection.” of Freedom Left N A. Lincoln Gillesple, Jr. an- swored the query in & mam of ‘words. “Because in Europe I find Mean- ing Scurry in their Organize-Self- Divert—hours loll here all simmer- rite-Expect-lush-stat, Get is less- necessary. Liquor-Gamme abroad somewhat breathier, the Spiritua! future of America is not to evolve tll a present diabetes i3 admit re- moved, t'wit: America’s total lack of parent-sagacity to exprimply an especially-wide-correcting-them good will toward and to cull an early ad iniration from the children.” Harry Crosby answered in poetry “away from Weakness toward Strength away from Civilizsed Bordidness toward Barbaric Splendor away from malted milk toward Straight Gin away from Shame toward Nakedness away from Canaries toward Lions" But the position of many expa | triates becomes perilous because M | Chiappe, prefect of Paris police, hat | given orders for the cleaning up o | the Latin Quarter and while bona- | fide art students and writers are 1C | be allowed to work in peace, the po |lice will see that studios which | charge entrance fees, like music halls, to see nuds -models - posing | before psuedo-artists are licensed like theaters or closed . 40-YEAR OLD POWDER GOOD Reno, Nev., Nov. 16, UP—Prof. J. 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