Arizona republican., 1913-08-14
WOMEN'S EIGHT HOUR LAW SOON
 TOBE EFFECTIVE.
Brooks Measure Limiting Hours of Labor for Fc- males Becomes Effective Monday, August F - some Exemptions

The Brooks eight hour law for tyo- i men goes into effect in Arizona next Monday morning. This et1tutc. was passed at the third special session of the state legislature. It provides thai no female shall be employed nr Der fnitted to work in any mercantile establishment, confectionery store. bakery. lauudry hotel, restaurant. or telegraph pr telephone exchange for
 moro than eight hours during any one
 day or more than fifty-six hours dur
 ing any one week.
 This part of the enactment soHnds
 as 1T the intention of the law is t.
 limit the hours of labor for women
 to just what is said in the paragraph
 above, but this is really not the ease
 as there are SO many provisions iii
 the bill as to make it scarcely an
 eight hour law for women at all. The
 first proviso is that the women may
 have an hour off for lunch. which is
 not counted in the eight hours This
 extends the working period nine hours
 in each day. The second proEi~o is
 that the eight hours maN be worked continuously or can be stretched ,ut
 through any twelve
 Then this twelve hours proposition
 is subjected to proNisos also. Railroad
 eating houses are exempted from it
 Then in all those establishments. cv- Cept laundries. where women are em- ployrd but six days in each week. q working day of ten hours is allowed Then there is still another proyiso to the effect that women employed in telegraph or telephone offices or ex- changes where not more than three women are employed. Female nurses
  of the act.
 It was stated upon tho floor of tine i legislature when the biIl was up for l discussion that it could have been | made considerably shorter if il had | just said that women employed in | Iaun5ries shall not work more than l eight hours in any one day nor more than forty eight hours per Week. as the laundry workers are practically | the only ones directly benefited hv the act In the large telephone cN- changes of the state. th- three shift | plan was in operation long before the eight hour law for women was pro- posed
 The bill was fathcrcd by William r. Brooks If Gil1 county in the house where an attempt was made to have it considered in both the first and second special sessions. This how ever failed l2rgclN through the efforts )f those Who Were opposed tn the MI T hotel and restaurant keepers. large de- Dartmcnt stores, the Fred Harvey cm II oloyos and the like But after four | ,r five hearings before the commit- tee in charge of the LiI the many cN captions noted above were placed in {, thus removing nearly all opposition. lntil fl was passed by the legislature without the emergency clause. and was signed and approved hN the gov II ,rnor on May IT. Under the law it goes into effect ninety days after the passage and approval
 Under the provisions or the law every employer of female labor is re- uircd to post in a conspicuous place. n every room where the females are employed g printed notice stating the l,urs If commencing and quitting Il work. the time allowed for dinner and ,ther meals. and the maximum mum ,cr of hours any fcm2lo is required Q work in any one day. The penal ics for violation of the act are fine f not less than tWentN-five dollars, ,r imprisonment for not less than hirty days. or both. such fine and