Connecticut western news., 1907-08-01
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Connecticut has not been behind New 1 York in passing legislation calculated to make the burden easier for those women and minors under sixteen who are compelled to work in manufactur- ing establishments. There has just been passed in the Connecticut general assembly law which provides that no woman or minor under sixteen shall be i employed more than fifty-eight hours in any one week or more than ten hours in any one day, thus shortening the working week from the sixty hours | that the present law passed in 1901 makes legal The new law provides that an employer who wishes to em- ploy women or minors for more than sixty hours in any one week in June, July or August may do so If he posts a notice in January of his intention and gives these operatives in return a fifty-five hour week during the three months mentioned. The whole scheme of this legislation, which will go into effect soon, has been the setting Of maximum working week rather than prescribing what hours should be the earliest or latest that women md children should be at work on my one day, as does the New York law, which makes o'clock the earliest hour at which they shall be at work in the morning, and provides that they may not work after o'clock in the evening, though the restriction to eight hours in any one day for minors under six teen, which obtains in New York, has not been seriously considered in Con- necticut. ..
 Seyerai sessions of the industrial peace congress have been held in San 1 Francisco, and some light has been | thrown on vexed problems, the solu- ton of which has cost San Francisco so much money. Secretaries Straus and Garfield and Professor simon ! Newcombe and Harris Weinstock were among those who addressed the conference. Of all the speakers former Mayor Phelan spoke most directly to the point He showed the enormous losses that have resulted from the strike of employees of the street cars. laundries, telephone companies and breweries, and then he dwelt on the impossibility of speedily rebuilding Snn Francisco with its present handicap of excessive wages in all trades. The cost of material has been greatly re- duced in the last three months, but there Is no reduction in the absurd scale of wages, which far exceeds the highest scale in New York. Thus. bricklayers are getting $T against S560 in New York; carpenters S5 against $4.50; cement workers SC against S5, and fathers S11 against S4 in New York. When freight rates are added to the cost of material, 1t will be seen that 1t costs fully one-quarter more to build here now than it does in New York. which is recognized as the highest place in the east.
 William Jennings Bryan delivered his Prince of Peace" sermon at Ha- vana, H., at the Epworth league Chau- tauqua to an audience of 3,536 persons. Despite heavy rain lasting all morn ing, the people filed out in large num- bers. In part Mir. Bryan said: "I want to shame the young men who think it smart and who assume a skeptical at- titude toward God and religion. I am going to make those young men admit aHal Nhelc iS Nou anu iNtsiVh. lhN man who does right is aware that God is with him. When young fellow is in college he feels much stronger and thinks he knows more than in any other period of his life. The fear of God Is the beginning of wisdom. do not doubt that we live in an after world that we assume the immortal being" Pertaining to the belief fin God he said, Tt does not take one half the strength deliberately to kill man in anger than it does to live the everyday life in the doctrine of | Christ"