The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 7, 1920, Page 5

- k OWN HIS OWN HOME - ND THE PAYMENT 1S . NbER,H;OME WAS BUILT . THE HOME-BUILDING T PASSED By e S Sk Hl s —T-Dra_wn expressly for the Leader b}; Conglje'ssman‘thn M. Baer. penses ‘during the same period were $4,764, leaving =~ Increased taxes on large inheritances, ness. Ten or more farmers may: organize a cow= d=. =a net gain for the five months of $12,654. The = L amount, of fire insurance carried January 1, 1920, of idow Was $4,005,975 and the amount of tornado insurance n- | $7599.677. All public buildings (state, city, county, -4, schools, etc.) are to come under state insurance as he : their private insurance contracts expire. Rates for - ¢ t. Ly state insurance at present are the same as private RE ¢ insurance. ;As soon as a sufficient surplus is built’ * © A4 b state incurance rates will be reduced, . .- STATE OPERATION OF COAL MINES < November 1, 1919, Governor Frazier succeeded in 4 baving North Dakota miners stay on the job 10 = days longer than they stayed anywhere else in the United States and when all efforts at.conciliation’ failed the governor seized the mines on behalf of ;gl ‘the state. Coal was mined at an operating eost, of A% §= ™ $2.34 per ton during the succeeding month and after paying all operating expenses a net surplus of $5,318.75 was leff. Coal ‘companies attacked Gov-' ernor Frazier in the federal court; but the court up- = o =13 held the governor’s action. The director of the coal - e ines, in hig report, stated that the governor’s #}= action, taken when North Dakota faced & coal short: , age in the midst of a winter blizzard, (1) prevented suffering and consequent deaths; $100,000 in wages; (3) saved ¢ ‘ sands' of dollars in royalties 'and ' main ., charges; ‘(l4,)f ‘prevented profiteering * ! sale of coal, all state-mined coal bei e ‘current before the strike. i " Changes in tax laws have been . ing directed toward shifting the b “deceased soldier for any other purpose needed. The - state raised approximately $750,000 for bonus pur- - poses in 1919 and will raise money in future at the rate of $1,000, Motor vehicle licenses, graduated' on ‘basis of . -horsepower and weight. :Gasoline and oil taxes bearing ‘heav’illy'én inferior “cracked” gasoline and lightly on high-grade prod- Although the'déciéaséd«lj:nréhasing power of the .dollar and the Ssoldiers’ bonus has resulted in in- - creases- in. the taxes of North Dakota, as in other - states; there is no other state in the Union in which ‘taxes are so. equitably distributed and many farm-_ e T o { ; . ers with small holdings have found their tases re- | When the nation-wide coal strike was ‘called - duced in spite of ‘the general increase, which has . fallen most-heavily on the land speculator who is holding unimproved land for a raise in price and' ‘doing nothing to add to the wealth of the state. ‘The North Dakota soldiers’ bonus law was the first enacted by any state in the Union and is re- i garded by competent critics as among the -best, if not the best, of the state laws. It provides pay- ' .~ ments at the rate of $25 per month of service, for: each North Dakota service man, the money. to:be spent: (1) for purchase of & city or farm home; {2) to buy farm machinery or supplies; (8) for in- vestment in a business or trade; (4) for educational . purposes, including tuition and living expenses; (5) . by disabled man for medical or hospital services; (6) by orphan children ior dependent parents of @ ' : 000 a year or more until the entire ¢ North Dak act, protecting the service men until a2 y the expiration of the war. = . " North Dakota had the record of the lowe buying association, county bonds may be issued to buy from one tofive grade cows for each member of the association and' one purebred bull, to be the property of the association. The members of the ~ “association guarantee each other’s payments to the . extent of 10 per cent of their individual liability, the county. thus being protected from loss in the _event of the failure of any member. : : i The state also provides seed testing for. farmers, operates an employment ageney for farmers, and lends permanent school funds to farmers on easy terms, in’ addition to farm mortgage loans made - by the Bank of North Dakota. , /LAWS FOR THE WORKER > North Dakota has the most’ modern and liberal - Jabor laws of any state in the Union, all enacted ' under the WNonpartisan: league = administration. These include: A e : o - ployers and disbursing all payments to injured workmen. and their. dependents, thus saving ex- " ‘penses of litigation and profits of private casualty . insurance companies. An injured workman receives' ~ two-thirds pay while incapacitated and-has his doctor’s and hospital bills paid.” The widow of a’ “worker who is killed receives, while she is a widow, - 8b per cent ‘of the workman’s wage, ‘with 10 per ' cent additional for each dependent child that may be left, the total paynient being limited to 66% percent. - " Minimum wage law for working girls and women. = Minimum wage rates have been established, Tang- .. ing from $16.60 to $20 per week for experienced rkers, with lower rates for apprentices or for rkers who are furnished lodging or meals, . Forty-eight-hour week for working women. : . Full crew bill for railroad, workers, insuring safety of traveling public. . . (Continued on page 14) . . Workmen’s ‘compensation, under state adminis- - “tration, the state collecting all premiums from em- al mine inspection law, protecting underground - T R R R L S L R WY