Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-22

LOUISVILLE, N.Y. Jan. fs
EIGHTH annual conference on child
labor under the auspices of the ma
tlonal Guild labor co alnllesee VIA ua-
GIN III this city Ian. . and ,ra MSsarns
issued afhogsl fsa
subject will 81 nChiid f5sibor hIaea
Legislation. ~SpaaHsrs are asked
to limit their papers or addresses
to twenty minutes and TO discuss
educational problems only SO far as
they relate to child labor. DIR. Fee
iix Adler of New York Ia chairman
of the national committee. Mrs.
Florence Kelley OF New York, gem
eral secretary OF the National Con-
sumers' league, will be one of the
speakers on the first day, and Sena-
tor William ID. Borah OF Idaho will
speak on the last day.
New Jersey Is to take a hand In
this work this year paying particular
attention to female labor. Through
the efforts of the Consumers League,
a bill will be introduced IN the leg
islature this week entitled:
AN act TO regulate and limit the
hours OF employment of females in
any mandatory, mercantile estab-
lishment, in any bakery, laundry or
restaurant in order to safeguard
the health of such employees; to pro-
vide for its enforcement, and a PEN
atty for its violation"
This bin will stimulate that "no
female shall be allowed or permitted
to .m.prk in nv manufacturing or.
mercantile establishment, in any
bakery. laundry or restaurant more
than ten hours In any one day or
more than six days or sixty hours
in any one week"
That there is nothing radical nor
new IN the proposed law the league
argues may be seen from a glance at
the following table of laws actually
in force, limiting the hours of
women in varying industries, In 9TH
err states. Those providing for eight
hours per days are: Arizona, Cal
ifornia, Washington. Nine hours per
day, Michigan, Missouri, Montana.
Utah. Nine hours forty minutes per
day, New Hampshire. Ten hours
per day. Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Illinois, Rhode Is
land, Louisiana, Indiana, Maine,
Maryland, Nebraska, New York,
Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Virginia,
OF the foreign nations, Great Bril-
tain, France, Switzerland, Austria,
Holland, Italy. Germany, Nova SEQ
tia. South Australia ard others nrn-.
teet the health and safety of their
working women and the public vel
fare by laws limiting the hours of
labor for adult women. Such legis-
iation has not been the result of sud
den impulse or passing humor; it
has followed deliberate eonsidera-
tion and has been adopted In the
face OF much opposition. Nearly
every amendment in any law has
been In the line OF strengthening
the law and further reducing the
working time.
Moreover court decisions have
sustained the Law Ia many states.
In 1908, the Oregon 10 hours law
upheld by the Supreme Court
of Oregon, and by the Supreme Court
of the United States, in the case OF
Muller rs. the State OF Oregon. IN
the year 1903 the Supreme Court
of Illinois sustained tho 10 hours
law in Illinois. in the case OF w. C.
Richie and Co., va. StateNof Illinois.
Last week the Massachusetts LAW
was upheld by the Supreme Court in
the case of Commonwealth VS.. Rich
ard G Riley. Courts OF Mfchigan
and Ohio have also handed dcwn
decisions sneteininp their respective
laws limiting the hours OF women's
mrrs No 4Fvnrrr dpcirfopu havn