The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
LONG DISCUSSED NOW NEARING FINAL SUCCESS Appointment of a Deputy Woman Factory In
 spector.
OUTSIDE OF POLITICS
Now Endorsed by Manufac- turers-Earnest and Pa
 tient Efforts for Measure.

tient Efforts for Measure.
 Tomorrow is the day set for the labor legislative committee hearing re- garding the appointment of woman inspector of factories. It will be recall- ed that the labor committee reported favorably on bill for the appointment of a woman deputy factory inspector. and 1t was placed on the calendar. It provides for the appointment of such an official by the factory inspector on recommendation of an advisory com mission of three women to be appointed by the governor. She shall hold office for four years unless removed by the inspector for cause. She "shail inquire into the enforcement of the laws regll- lating the employment of women and girls in any manufacturing, mechani- cal, or mercantile establishment, inyes- tigate the conditions relating to the health and welfare of women and girls employed in such establishments and report thereon to the factory inspector. provided, however, that she shall have no power or authority over and no duty concerning any machinery, appli- ance, or fixtures except sanitary fix lures. Said female deputy factory in- spector shall have the same power and authority as the factory inspector, except as to machinery, appliances and fixtures, subject to his approval, and shall serve under the direction of said factory inspector in all respects as oth- CT deputy inspectors. The salary is made $5 a day for days of actual serA vice and expenses, the total not to ex- ceed $1,5O0 in any one year. The rec ommendation of the commission of women as to deputy is to be made by August 1, 1907
 Much interest and satisfaction has been created over the fact that the eff forts made by philanthropic women in this state for the appointment of wo- man factory inspector are apparently after long and patient work and ef- fort to be crowned with success. Sev- eral previous efforts in this direction failed but those behind the movement were not dismayed but renewed their work with renewed energy confident of final success, One objection raised against the project was the fear of the manufacturers that the right kind of U woman for the position would ss,t. be ppointed-that politics or unwise influences would enter into the case. But this ground of objection was suc- cessfully dealt with, on assurance be- ing received by the manufacturers that the ladies back of the project were most supremely opposed to any one not thoroughly competent for the position being appointed and that they were all so as strenously opposed to having the appointment made one of the footballs of state politics. It is learned in con- nection with this phase of the case that a leading manufacturer stated at the committee hearing on the subject,
 this gentleman representing four hundred and sixty manufacturers that he had on representation of the aims of the ladies back of the project obtained replies from the four hundred and sixty manufacturers and that all and every one of them were in favor of the appointment, with single excep- tion. It was also stated that the ladies who have given much time and effort to the project were strenuous in their desire that political machinery should have nothing to do with appointment of their commission, Mrs. Frank c. Porter of this city, one of the ladies foremost in forwarding the plan for the appointment of a deputy woman inspector said in regard to the plan that it emanated from and is direct result of Dorothy Richardson's famous book ''The Long Day" Mrs. Porter, with other ladies, became greatly in- terested in the project and prepared and read papers on the subject in var ious parts of the state arousing much public interest on the subject The plan proposed provides that the com mission of three ladies shall be ap- pointed by the governor and shall serve without pay. Miss Florence Kelly, national superintendent of the Flor ence Crittenton mission work, when learning of this project and of the probable realization of the plan in Connecticut, said enthusiastically that this appointment of deputy woman inspector in Connecticut would be a grand thing, one of the grandest things for the uplifting of woman factory workers accomplished in a century; and Connecticut would have the splen- did honor of being the first state to inagurate this reform. No doubt. also other states would follow Connecticut's example