Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-26
WANT BARMAIDs TO GO.
Women Reformers Working to Abolish
the Custom in England.


From the New York Tribune.
The women of England are quite as alive
to the evils of child labor as those of the
United States. They have just secured the
massage of a new law which is more ad-
voncad than the one which has recently
pone into operation In the state OF New
york IT prohibits all street trading by
ch,,dren under eleven, and authorizes local
authorities to regulate or prohibit it en-
t,re,v up to sixteen. 1t prohibits the en-
r,ovment of any child in any occupation
likely to injure it's health 1t raises the
ye Of children licensed for public enter
tainments from seven to ten. IL autnoriAee
local authorities to prohibit all employ
ment under fourteen and to NIX the hours
of labor. ~ xxro,,on,s
Industrial Council. which corresponds more
nearly to the Consumers League than 10
any other organization In this country Ino
Countess Of Aberdeen Is president. anu sev :
aral women of title are among It's omcers.
The council has just issued letters calling
the attention of members and citizens
throughout the kingdom to the necessity OF
urging the local authorities TO action- ine
council takes an active part In politics. AT
the fall elections II sent out lists or ques-
lions to candidates for the borough coun-
ellis. and worked for those who returned an
affirmative answer. The first was. DO you
tary inSpect0rS?
In London women are now serving IN TINS
capacity In sixteen out OF twenfy-hine
boroughs, and the council Is bringing pres
sure to bear to secure their appointment In
the remaining boroughs. It asserts that
many of the duties Of a sanitary Inspector
are SO intimately associated with the IN
dustrial and home life of women and girls
that only q woman can discharge them sat
isfactorily Another question with which 1t
concerns Itself Is the one which Is con-
stantly urged by the Consumers League In
this country, the registration and inspection
Of home workers In the sweaded trades
But the English women have some prob
lens to meet which do not occur this side
the big ferry. The supervision OF sleeping
accommodations in business houses" Is one
which reads very strangely to an American
In large numbers of business houses there.
especially the dry goods stores, the en-
ployes sleep on the premises, and the pre-
vention Of oyercrowding and fnsanitary
conditions Is a problem. Hours and fees to
suit the convenience of working women and
girls was another pledge required of can
didates who won the support OF the coun-
Gil 1t was asserted that these women
needed the benefit Of the public baths
quite as much as the men, but that the
men had a monopoly OF all the best evening
hours and low fees.
The council also demanded of its candi-
dates to pledge themselves to fair stand
ard of wages to women employed by the
borough councils. asserting that at pres
emit the pay Of such women Is low out Of
all proportion to that OF the men.
ITS anal request was to anow whether the.
influence to make women eligible to the
borough councils. The council has just
held a conference at which movement
was instituted TO establish courses in which
II wishes to put this course Into the day
technical schools. and has appealed to the
technical educational board Of London