The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-09-24
A HIDEOUS CONFESSION
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oon urgent petitions working women the LEGISLATURE f
Illinois last winter law limiting the employment of
factories to ten day (p 538) AS the law met opposition
from the Illinois Manufacturers Association with great
ty that its enactment secured and in order to secure #
M working women obliged modify the limitation hev de-
sired from eight to The Illinois Manufacturers Association
now checking the operation of this unconstitutional It
has applied for injunction restrain the criminal from
enforcing penal provisions against employers This would have
been to laugh few years agothe bringing of chancery
to restrain public prosecutors and grand uries courts
from enforcing criminal judicial innovation
known as government by in junction. such proeedg great
novelty of the judges has granted the injunction His
pressed that the law prevents from exercising
her right of free contract
stupid that for any really intelligent Judge give
The law in question essentially in contract
is notification is the coercion Mrs Ray
mond Robins president of the Women Trade Union League drives
this point when she says Everybody who knows what
going the world Except judges and awyers) knows that
freedom only between parties economic
equality manfesty Mrs Robins implies that work
ing women their employers do equals
The employers wait the workers wait peril Of starvation
The employers command working opportunities the workers are
cut by privegefostering laws And mas much this economic
inequality intensified by long hours and modified by short hours
laws limiting the direction of freedom OF labor
while nuncons against the enforcement of such laws are
from freedom of labor Under the existing economic
conditions theory of free applied this tenhour
industrial depotm
Regardless however of that view the what is there
enough say hdeous confession of the Illinois Manu-
cturers Association this case? Neither the Association nor its
get technically without going through the
form appearing make the believe that its lawsuit IN
behalf working What injunction that will
give power long hours of their workers But
what had show technically that the right OF workers to
work long hours stake So couple Of working women are
induced the suit And thoughtful folks
through the afdavts those unfortunate working women Think
this hdeou which makes by them that
neither of the two-ahful working women mind you-hat
neither Them although one worked faithfully at her trade for
years and the other for hrtwo and given saSac
tonyet that neither of the mgets hours day OF faithful
and competent work enough wages live upon Isn't this confess
of the Illinois Manufacturers Association hdeous enough TO
make baby farming white slave traffic seem oeaDe by
comparisons
When women of long experience expert and faithful at
their work paid enough wages live upon Tor ten hols
work day. there something the industrial De1a
When these conditions exist workers must be at an economic u
advantage selling their work. for one would 50Eay 0
tract hours day than bare living When tins
50 there higher duty for udges- they wish TO Dc
intelligent or humane learned in the law Than
dvelng about free and granting nJunctoS as
the criminal clauses of labormitation laws And "hen @
actrers confess paying who work for te
and competeny living for en-hour day. II OenOo'
manufacturers associations something better than Wn aOo
the deposm of ten hour laws there any decent men III W
illinois Manufacturers Association they should be glaa 70 ~
e odium Of this wretchedy ideous confession by eN WY
they do pay wages And it because they caoS
trying honestly fairly and with much energy as te nov
expnd invoking government by injunction against WORSE
n dress why they not? Is it because hel are %
ana greedy? is it because they also as well as ei n
are pundered There are open minds explanations from n
but they the severest for giving counnane 70 W
gross inhumaniy which their Association attributes u @
~ It's ldeous confession in this ten hour case
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