Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-29
work, that the nervous constitution of

them than to men; and that 1t is not
for the public good that the next gen.
GRAFTON should spring from sickly
mothers. Night work, moreover, eX-
poses women to greater peril with re-
gard to moral conduct, and it is Meth
er safe nor pleasant for women to be
travelling the street during the hour OF
general rest. The New York Tribun.
indorses the action of the Consumers
league, and hopes that they will keep
up the fight to the end. Speaking OF
the ground on which the league takes
it's stand this journal says:
Night work is VIGOROUSLY less
healthful than day work for botn me,,
and women. Women are unquestion-
ably weaker than men, and it may
reasonably be maintained that what is
physically harmful for men at the bes,
is much more harmful for women. So
cial conditions also render it so. Wo-
men can not safely be about at nigh,
as men can. They are subject to insult
and to unhealthful moral influences
They can not go to and from their
work at night as comfortably. Trans
portation Facilities are less adequate
at night than in the day, and the
state certainly should have a right
to protect it's women from the neces
sity of walking the streets in the night
hours, or waiting about unprotected
for infrequent conveyances. Further
more, the great body of women work
ers in factories are immature, proa-
bly, half of them under age. The
state assumes a serious moral respon-
sibility when it permits inexperienced
girls without proper guardianship to
work night after night in the facto-
ries and to walk night after night
through the streets unprotected and
subject to conditions which tend to
break down the conventional restraints
safeguarding girls"
OF the states duty with regard to
this condition of things the same jour-
nal remarks:
1T is the obvious duty of the state
to protect the mothers of our citizens
from labor conditions either physically
or morally injurious, and any narrow
limitation of the police power or any
extension of the thory of freedom o.
contract and sacredness of property
rights which leaves women and child
rem at the mercy of industrial condi
tons that sap their vitality is a Sc
rious menace to the nation, which
should be met, if need be, by consti
tutional amendment. This protective
movement has encountered serious
obstacles in the courts hitherto, but
there is no cause for discouragemen,
and happily the present decision is
not final and the division of the court
gives reasonable ground for hope thai
in the court of appeals the law will
finally be sustained. Even If it is not
the effort to safeguard women in fac
tories should be continued"
The Evening Mail New York,
thinks that the law asked for by the
league, whether wisely or unwisely
will prove setback to the advanced
woman" and equal rights" theory
and observes:
"The Consumers league. will car
ry the case to the court of appeals
If the latter upholds the law it viii
be doing a salutary thing. yet it will
be saying in effect that the rapid en-
trance of American women into in.
dustry is not to result in that condi-
ton of complete economic independ-
ence for the sex which advanced wo-
men desire. They will be still class
apart, women rather than hands -
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