- Event type: CREATE
Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah
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Proposition on Limiting Powers of Corporations and Companies [File No. 40]
No original text was preserved. The following text was printed the next day in the Salt Lake Herald.
Ryan also introduced a proposition containing the following remarkable provisions:
It shall not be lawful for any person, company or corporation, employing bodies of men, to collect debts due from such employees for any article or thing furnished by such corporation, company, or person, either directly or indirectly, except by direction of courts of law, and in the employment of men, no persons shall be discriminated against on account of their social or industrial association.
No individual company, or corporation, shall be allowed to import labor from other states or territories or from foreign countries into this state. This, however, shall not operate to prevent the natural inflow of all orderly and peaceful people.
It shall not be lawful for any person, company, or corporation their agents, or representatives, either directly or indirectly, to ask or seek to control or direct their employees in the exercise of their elective franchise either at any general or special election or primary caucus, or convention, or to in any way interfere with the free exercise of any of their political privileges as citizens.
No railroad, transportation, express or street car company shall be allowed to issue or give to any person a free pass or directly or indirectly extend free transportation to the person or property of any person except to its own servants, employed in well-established lines of work.
No street or other railroad or private corporation shall be allowed to occupy the streets or public ground of any city or town in this state without a vote of consent of the people thereof.
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Document Timeline
- Proposition on Limiting Powers of Corporations and Companies [File No. 40] (introduced on 1895-03-14 14:00:00 - CREATE - e692229) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1895-03-14 14:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e692230) [view current proposal at this moment]