Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-17
SUPPORTING SAVIOUR BILL
 FOR WOMEN AND MINORS. Norwich Central Labor Union and ' Textile Workers {, Issue Public Appeal

l The Norwich Central Labor union
 and the organized textile workers of eastern Connecticut have taken up an active advocacy of the 54-hour bill To All Friends of Progress, Greetings. We desire to call your attention 10 and appeal for your support of the 54- hour bill that has been presented to
 the legislature by, Representatis Q Chesebro of Stoninston and is known as house bill No. 257. This bill is f.,- the purpose of limiting the hours of
 labor of women and minors under 16
 mechanical establishment.
 We are not asking for any special 1 leglsiat at1on for women and children of 1 Connecticut but we want to be placed l on an equal footing with the rest of l the New England states. New York 1 has 54-hour law for women anu 1 children. Massachusetts has 54 hour law for women and children. Rhode Island legislature has passed a 54hour law which awaits the signature of the governor, who is pledged to it's adop tlon. New Jersey has had a 5o-hour law for the last P years.
 Similar bills as the one proposed n Connecticut are before the legislatures Of Pennsylvania, New Hampshir Maine and Vermont. Kansas has pass ed 54-hoar law for women an1 minors. California has 48-hour law in effect for women and minors The province ol Quebec in Canada has 5E-hOur law. The textile workers Of Great Britain have had a 55-hour law for the last 10 years
 Connecticut should place itself in line with other states and not run the
 risk of having the finger of sco1p pointed at her, exclaiming: You work than any other New England state"
 The increased speed and productive
 ness of machinery demand shorte:
 hours for women and children, so that
 
 nerve -racking toll that they have to
 perform in order to get living. Ii Il
 Is good for man to work only A an
 AS hours a week in the building trades.
 why should women and children be
 compelled to work 58 hours a week in
 ia ctories? These women and childre
 have practically no organizat tion t>
 protect themselves and 1t is the duty
 of the state to step in and protect the
 future mothers of the citizens of this
 state.
 Friends of humanity. get behind this bill; write to your representatives and senator; get your newspapers to sup
 port it. and your civic organizations of all kinds to support it; attend the public hearing on the bill (which will be announced any day now) and spea@l
 in it's favor put your shoulder to the wheel and help us enact this law. and you will receive the heartfelt thanks of women and children in this state who are struggling to make a living
 A amendment of the public acts of 1909, chapter 220: public acts 1911, chapter 278 is given as follows:
 No minor under 16 years of age and no woman shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical estab- 1ishment more than 10 hours in any one day. Every employer in such esta blishment shall post in conspicu- persons are employed a notice, the form of which shall be furnished by the factory inspector, specifically stat ing the hours of labor required of them on each day of the week, and the employment of any such person for a longer time in any day than s7 stated shall be violation or this sec tion. unless it appears that such ern- blown ent is to make un for time lost or some previous day of the same calendar week in consequence of the breakdown of machinery upon which such person was employed or depend ent for employment; but in no ease shall the hours of labor exceed 54 iE a calendar week.
 Any employer in any mercantile es- ta blishment who shall during each holiday with pay shall be exempt from 1 the provisions of this act from the 17th l to the 25th day of December of each l year. appended: Michael Kelly, James Grier- l son, Rudolph Krohn, Norwich Central l Labor union; George Eastam. presi- l dent Charles Headen. secretary Fred Holdsworth, publicity 1 secretary: Frank Lee. Henry Keron, Thomas J. Frederick. Samuel Lambert. l Ere eman Firth, Joseph Ashworth. | Barnes Asia Hilton. Joah | Seddon William T. Lord. Samuel Jes- sop William Fishwick. George Lord, 1 legislative committee of textile work CTS of eastern Connecticut.
 BALM SUNDAY coMMUNJoNs.