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creasing maxitum weekly 4nefitf om '$4 o $50anidtoosting
daily hospital benefits ntot $12' 6* 20 days,' eis
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disability bill, AB 23 (Beaver and Caldecott), was scfieauid
for hearing this week by the 'upper house Iabor C
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request ote&p2ioyer group;, She &ied AbrIng
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which will up maximum weekly benefits to $50 in temporary dis-
ability cases from $40 is awaiting action by the Assembly
Ways and Means Committee.
The $50 benefit bill is tied in
with a series of AFL measures Jumping the permanent disability
maximum to $40 from $35 a week and liberalizing the death benefit structure, The bills last week received an 11-1 approval
from the lower house Finance and Insurance unit.
SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE KILLS FEPC BILL
(CFLNL) SAN FRANCISCO.--Splitting on party lines, the
Senate Labor Committee this week killed hopes of a state
fair employment practices law by a 4-2 vote.
The AFL-backed FEPC measure, AB 2000 (Hawkins and others),
had previously received an overwhelming 62-15 approval in the
Assembly.
Voting for FEPC were Senators Robert I. Montgomery (D.
Hanford) and Harold T. Johnson (D. Roseville).
Voting against were Senators F. Presley Abshire (R.
Sonoma), John F. McCarthy (R. San Rafael), John A. Murdy, Jr.
(R. Huntington Beach) and J. Howard Williams (R. Porterville).
Senator Louis G. Sutton (R. Maxwell) was absent.
By unanimous vote the committee also tabled a senate ccnstitutional amendment proposed by McCarthy which would have
placed the FEPC issue on the ballot at the next general elec-
tion.
FEPC advocates had urged a no vote on the McCarthy pro-
posal,
Business forces lined up solidly against AB 2000 which
would have outlawed hiring discrimination based on race, color,
creed or national origin.
Arguing against the measure were:
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Reginald Biggs, vice president of Emporium-Capwell
Company, San Francisco;
Adrien J. Falk, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
Biggs spoke also for the San Francisco Retailers Council,
and the San Francisco Retail Dry Goods Association.
In addition to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
Falk spoke for the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Retail Council, the California Metal Trades Employers,
the San Francisco Down Town Association, and the San Francisco
Hotel Owners Association.
Final committee arguments favoring passage were made by
C. L. Dellums, west coast chairman of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People and vice president of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Edgar D. Osgood,
San Francisco businessman and GOP leader.
LIFE ON CALIFORNIA FARMS - NAPA VALLEY
GROWERS NAILED IN NEW CHILD LABOR CASE
(CFLNL) SAN FRANCISCO.--The U. S. Department of Labor
has announced that the Louis Wurz Company, Napa Valley farmers,
has been fined in federal court for violating the law in respect to employment of child labor in agriculture.
Recent studies by the Labor Department reveal that Cali-
fornia leads the nation in the number of child labor violation in farming activities.
The Wurz case was uncovered by wage and hour investigators of the U. S. Department of Labor.
Albert, were fined $500.
Wurz and his son,
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FOR SACRAMENTO HEARINGS
(CFLNI) SAN FRANCISCO.--Twenty-f'our labor bills were sched-
tled for hearlngs next week in the California legislature as the
1957 general sessioan mnoved closer to the June 12th adjournment.
Eighteen of the proposals will be heard in the Assembly
and six in the Senate.
All hearings are held in the State Capitol.
The complete schedule follows:
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE HEARINGS
MONDAY - MAY 20
Constitutional Amendments, 3 p .m., Room 4164
ACA 37 (O'Connell and others) - GOOD - Proposes constitutional
amendment to repeal anti-subversive oath required of all public
officers and employees.
ACA 2 (MacBride and others) - GOOD - Permits persons otherwise
qualified to vote who do not meet the one-year California residence requirement to vote for presidential electors, but only if
thiey would have been eligible to vote in another state.
ACA 42 (D. D. Doyle) - BAD - Proposes constituitional amendment
to permit veterans' property tax exemption to be passed on to
lessee of property in question who meets specified conditions.
Finance and Insurance, 8 p.m., Room 5168
SB 1779 (Regan) - GOOD -Amends Section 3212 of Labor Code to exten?d to full-time members of the fire fighiting department or unit
of a state institution the provisions establishing as compensable
ln,jiu:ries, hernia, pneumonia and heart trouble which develops or
manii'ests itself while in service.
E(ducation, 8 p.m., Room 4202
AB 2322 (Porter and others) - GOOD - Revises upward the square
feet formula per unit of a.d.a. in determinirig the maximum state
schiool building aid for districts. Provides that estimate for
apportionment can cover a pericd of four, instead of two fiScal
years.
AB 3884 (MacBride) - GOOD - Provides for permanent regulat;ion for
payment of the salary of any person employed in a position requirirg certification qualifications whose salary is withheld because
a certification docim.ret was not in force for the period that salaxry wCs eai'rrd aikfi t.e cvl.Sis5els of su'hb Acn. irt'd
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in 60 oays aix;er tb,e ex-d of stich ptod.
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AB 14118 (Henderson and others) - GOOD - Creates commission cons-iting of five members appointed by the Governor to revise Education Code and submit report and recommendations to the legislature for 1959 general session.
SB 519 (Hollister) - BAD - Permits high schools and junior colleges, in accordance with standards of State Board of Education
and implementing rules and regulations of Department of Education,
to establish work experience education courses for credit, defined to include employment of pupils in any part-time job selected
or approved as having educational value and assignment of pupils
to observe and assist in business, industrial or professional establishments and institutions under supervision of persons charged with aiding the pupils to understand the nature of such operations; exempts such work experience education from minimum wage
orders of Industrial Welfare Commission if student work is less
than normally productive because of the educational arrangement,
provided the following conditions are found to prevail: (a) educational needs of pupils are better served by non-paid or subminimum paid experience; (b) there is no exploitation of labor
of pupil; (c) pupil does not compete with paid workers and no
paid worker is replaced or reduced in status because of the pupil's work; and (d) in the case of assignments to business, industrial or professional establishments and institutions, the
pupil's observation and participation takes place within the
hours of the regular school day. Requires workmen's compensation
coverage of students exempt from minimum wage orders; provides,
except in the case of assignment of pupils to observe and assist
in business, industrial or professional establishments and institutions, that part-time work experience jobs may be arranged within or without the hours of the regular school day or week. Makes
other related changes regarding work permits and reporting of a.d.a
for apportionment purposes. Companion to: AB 967 (Munnell and
others).
SB 867 (Short and others)
- BAD - Allows school districts to deduct from salary of certificated employees membership dues in
certain professional organizations, upon revocable authorization
by the employee in writing.
Judiciary, 8 p.m., Room 2170
SB 403 (Grunsky) - GOOD - Provides that the release by a court
from the obligation to support parents extends to obligations to
state agencies and to laws of any state requiring such support.
TUESDAY - MAY 21
Governmental Efficiency and Economy, 3 p.m., Room 2170
AB 1452 (Hanna) - GOOD - Declares money paid by owner to a contractor, or by owner or contractor to a subcontractor, is to be
considered a trust fund for the benefit of the owners, contractors, laborers, subcontractors or materialmen; declares the contractor or subcontractor who is trustee of such a fund is guilty
of felony if he appropriates the proceeds to his own use.
AB 1453 ( Hanna) - GOOD - Specifies that Registrar of Contracts
71ay examine books, records and documents kept in the course of
tcr.tractor's business, Refusal to comply constitutes cause for
suspension or revocation of license. Also provides applicants
for -contirarting license shall state on application a list of
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credit references. Such investigation can be instituted by verified complaint of any person.
Munici al and Coun
Governmen
8pm,Room 2170
AB 945 (Bradley) - BAD - Amends, repeals and adds various sections
of t1he Health and Safety Code regarding county sanitation districts.
Provides that work proposed by the engineers' report, as required,
shall be performed by private contractors, and repeals sections
allowing such work to be done by day labor, or only partially by
private contractors. Provides that if cost of work exceeds $1000,
notices must be published requesting bids and contract must be
awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Also provides that the
county sanitation district shall not incur any bonded indebtedness without the approval of the voters of the district. Also
provides that the board of supervisors shall not increase the
rate of taxation for Improvement of a portion of a district without voter approval.
THURSDAY - MAY 23
Revenue and
Taxation$
_8_k.m.,
Room 2170
AB 423 (Crawford and Luckel) - GOOD - Exempts from state sales
tax drugs and vitamins dispensed on prescription filled by registered pharmacists.
AB 3382 (Munnell and others) - GOOD - Amends Personal Income
Tax Law to increase the dependency exemption and exemptions for
single - individuals, married couples, etc., $500 across the
board.
AB 3648 (Britschgi and Francis) - BAD - Provides that passenger
stage corporation operating over regular routes as fixed by the
Public Utilities Commission, where at least 60 percent of the
vehicle mileage is by highways other than those maintained as
toll-free roadways of the state highway and freeway system, shall
be exempt from tax on fuel to the extent to which such other highway mileage is a percentage of total miles operated by vehicles
subject to the tax. See also AB 3651.
AB 3651 (Britschgi and Francis) - BAD- Provides for refunds from
motor vehicle license tax to passenger stage corporations in accordance with exemption proposed in AB 3648.
AB 4032 (Gaffney) - GOOD - Exempts from state sales and use tax,
medicines and drugs.
SENATE COMMITTEE HEARINGS
MONDAY - MAY 20
Judiciary, Mornin
ession, 10 a.m., Room 3191
SB 2304 (Dolwig) - BAD - Adds Section 4209 to Government Code to
provide that no person who does not have a contractual relationship directly with the general contractor may maintain an action
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against the surety on a contractor's bond, unless said person
has given notice within 30 -days from the commencement of the
delivery of the materials or performance of services that said
materials have been delivered or are being delivered or that
said services have been rendered or are being rendered. Also
provides that such a person may not receive payment for claims
unless he has given such notice to the general contractor.
TUESDAY
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MAY 21
Local Government, 1 p.m., Room 4040
AD 993 (Weinberger and others) - GOOD - Eliminates requirement
that the seven members of the Local Planning Advisory Committee
who are appointed by the Governor must first be recommended for
appointment by the president of either the County Supervisorst
Association of California, the League of California Cities., or
the California School Trustees Association. Senate companion:
SB 792 (Farr).
AB 2889 (McGee) - BA1D - Provides that, in counties containing a
population of 2 million or over (Los Angeles-), maintenance, alteration or repair work upon county buildings may, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, be done either by contract
or by force account. Senate companion: SB 1863 (Richards).
AB 3016 (Lanterman) - BAD - Amends County Employeest Retirement
i 9fT1937 regarding the election of safety members of boards
of retirement in counties with population of 295,000 or greater,
Provides that a decision of the Industrial Accident Cormission
shall not be binding on a county retirement board in the matter
of determining whether an injury arose out of or in the course
of employment of a member or former member of the county retirement system. Also amends retirements for disability provision
regarding service-connected presumption of-heart trouble developed by a safety member who has completed 15 years or more of service under a pension system established under the County Peace
Officers' Retirement Law or the County Fire Service Retirement
Law or under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
WEDNESDAY - MAY 22
Governmental Efficiency, 9 a.m., Room 4203
AB 367 (Elliott and others) - GOOD - Declares state policy againSt-7T"crimination on the basis .of race, color, religion or national origin in the rental of real property redeveloped under
the Community Redevelopment Law. Requires redevelopment agencies to obligate lessees and purchasers of real property acquired in redevelopment projects and ownerz of property improved as
a part of the redevelopment project to refrain from such discrimination.
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THURSDAY - MAY 23
Public Health and Saf ety, 1 p.m,., Room 3191
SB 2520 (Donnelly and Berry) - BAD - Transfers functions of the
Commission of Housing, relating to limited dividend housing corporations, to the Commissioner of Corporations.
COMPANY UNION OPPOSED BILL GIVING
TEACHERS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS
(CFLNL) SAN FRANCISCO.--The administrator-dominated California Teachers Association boasted this week of defeating a
state legislative attempt to give teachers the right "to nego-
tiate with their employers for the purpose of collective bar-
gaining or other mutual aid or protection."
The claim was
featured in the CTA's weekly newslettter,
Long branded a "company union" by AFL-CIO Federation of
Teachers, the CTA has consistently fought legislation to give
teachers bargaining rights.
Teacher union spokesmen claim school district superintendents, and other highly paid school administrators, dominate
CTA policies.
MAKE PLANS NOW
FOR
STATE AFL CONFERENCE ON
HEALTH AND WELFARE PLANS
SANTA BARBARA - JULY 21-26, 1957
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