Evening journal., 1915-01-08
Miss Malone Reports of
Years Activities Under
Women's Employment Law

nual report OF her ACTIVITIES lOr the /
year, from January l. 1914. to Janu- !
airy 1. 1915. Miss Malone during the
year applied herself increasingly to
the duties of her office, she making
4.132 visits, or an average of nearly
fourteen visits each working day.
She makes several recommendations,
one being 10 make restaurants sub
ject to the provisions of the law.
Another recommendation she makes
is to change to 10 O'Clock instead Of
II o'clock the provision that any fe-
male working after IL o'clock at
night shall not be employed moro
than eight hours in any twenty-four
hours
She also recommends the naming
i'm the law of hours after which wo-
men or girls might not be employed
! in manufacturing, mercantile, me-
chanical and printing establishments,
! laundries and bakeries. She also
recommends that night work for fe-
males in factories be prohibited, and
provision fOrbidding the employ
ment of girls or women more than six
1 days a week. She also embodies
other recommendations
Miss Malone in her report says:
ploycd as given in this report is consid
erably hollow the number employed for
| this period as work has been slack in
tho factories.
} CAS- stated in my previous report it
has seemed we'll at first to use every
effort to have the employer conform 20
the law without the necessity of the
inspectors resorting to prosecution. 10
make him acquainted with the provis-
ions Of the law TO point out Co him
Just where he was failing 40 comply
and 20 try to get his cooperation in
the enforcement of the law. For the
most part violations have been rectificd
after they were pointed out by the in
spector. lu the few instances where the
employer showed an INCLINATION to ig-
more the law the cases were reported 10
the attorney general and as result
of his cfforis the offenders conformed TO
the law without the necessity of bring
inc the case into court. The co-oncra-
tion OF the attorney general and his dep
luties has been of the utmost value 30
the inspector in the enforcement OF the
law.
employers have stil1 to be re-
minded frequently that girls must be
allowed TO go promptly at the closing
hour. that the hour posted on the
schedule as the time to stop for the
day means what IL says-that that is
the time the employees actually stop
wCrk-not as some seem to think that
it is the time their establishment is
cloaed to the public and that the girl
may work on ten or twenty minutes or
longer behind closed doors.
|
will be seen that most Of the violations
are due either to failure to post and
keep posted the notice cards provided
by the inspector or failure to keep cor
rect the schedules posted on their no
{, , tice cards. Many of them do not seem
TO realize that employment Of a fe-
/, male outside of her posted hours con-
4 stitutes in itself violation of the
= law. It is very simple matter tc
. change the schedule on a notice care
$ and in most cases takes very littl,
time.
After the cleaning or painting Of es
4 adjustments notice cards are fre
= quently lost or destroyed. Many EN-
= ployers not only do not realize tha
= the notice cards should be taken car,
!. OF, but fail to send for new ones Z,
a replace those that have been destroy
d ed.
il 1T might be easier to enforce thi
/. particular provision of the law
Q small fine could be imposed by
d magistrate for such an offense instea
of taking the case into the count
II court. The child labor law make
e such a provision.
is You will see that of the violation
k of notices not posted, 131 were in ne,
@, establishments that had failed to an
Ie ply for notice cards. This might b
l. avoided by the registration require
ment that is recommended further o
in the report. Comparatively few en-
ployers seem to realize that accordin
TO section 4 of the law it is their dut
to send for the notice cards and DO.
n them-that not to have them III
n even if their establishments hay
p" never been inspected is a violation
the law. Most of them wait until III
inspector finds their establishmeI
Ill and gives them the cards.
e, During the year from January
sn 1914 to January /. 1915. there ha,
r been made 4.132 visits of inspectic
d. and 740 establishments visited, en-
ey ploying an average of $3.50 females
on The statistics show that there are :
establishments in the State that empl
in $3.50 women and girls coming within t
as provisions OF the law.
gh Miss Malone sets forth the followi
"a. table of violations discovered and C,
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