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URGE CITIZENS EMPLOYMENT j 1 — » Illinois Racing Commission Adopts New Rule Requiring Certificates. — Every Employe Must Give Permanent Flace of Residence, Birthplace, Salary Received, Etc. • At a meeting of the Illinois Racing Commission held on May 1, 1936, in Chicago, the following rules were enacted: 1. Each race track association at the time of employment of any person in its several different departments, including the racing secretarys office, mutuel department, concessions, gate, watchman service, parking, ushers, and porters, shall require a certificate, filed and executed in duplicate, giving the name, present address, permanent residence, places of residence during the last twelve months, birthplace, residence at the time of last voting, month and year, period of continuous residence in state before employment, residence of wife, residence of parents, daily salary to be received, and position. A copy of each such certificate shall be filed immediately with the commission. 2. Each race track shall make daily written detailed reports to the Illinois Racing Commission, of all employees actually engaged on the previous day, position, salary, and whether or not a bona fide citizen of the state of Illinois. If employee is a permanent resident of Illinois, and has voted in the state of Illinois in the twelvemonth period previous to employment and nowhere else, he may be listed as a bona fide citizen of Illinois. 3. Each race track association making application for racing dates shall file with said applications report in detail giving name, place of residence and state citizenship at time of employment, of all its employees engaged during the previous racing season and state further what percentage of bona fide citizens of Illinois will be employed by said race track association during the year for which the application is filed, stating in detail the number of residents and non-residents to be employed, the department, position and salary each will receive. At the same meeting a resolution was I passed by the commission directing its secretary to address the following communication to all the race tracks in Illinois: "To All Race Track Associations Operating in the State of Illinois "Gentlemen: j "The Illinois Racing Commission be lieves that each race track management should be extremely careful in the selection of all of its employees in the several departments—racing secretarys office, mutuel department, concessions, gate, watchman service, etc. However, we believe that in such employment the several race track associations should prefer to hire bona fide citizens of Illinois. "Many other states having racing, prevent by state statute or rule, the employment of non-residents, no doubt in an endeavor to keep down their own relief rolls, and likewise to reduce taxes for relief. The racing in such states apparently has not suffered in its efficiency. "There would seem to be no good reason why a resident of Illinois should only receive part time employment or none at all while non-residents are regularly employed. "ILLINOIS RACING COMMISSION. "By George H. Foster. "Secretary."
