The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-26

which the men have achieved and aid the
women to obtain equal pay for equal
work.
The working girls themselves want
these bills They have worked under
the conditions OF no protection and In
adequate protection, and they have ip-
dorsed this legislation.
Night work IL worse for women than
for men because women are the mothers
tor the potential mothers) OF the race.
The working man who is n father has
Of course a great deal OF responsibility
to his family. But the working woman
who Is a mother has homo duty and
the care of her house and children.
IL she works At night she does not
go home to bed, but to prepare the
breakfast for her family. get tho ohil-
dren Off to school and clear up the
house, do the washing and ironing
or mending. The few hours sleep that
she is able to snatch through the noise
and disturbance of the day fail to re-
coup her strength, and her work az
well ns her health suffers"
As for the younger woman night work
has n moral hazard. This was brought
out in an investigation by a member OF
the conference. Miss Helen Mccormick,
Assistant District Attorney of Kings
county. Miss Mccormick investigated
The conditions among women transport
tatlon workers and showed the unsani-
tary conditions of car barns and the ey-
pioitntion OF bad moral conditions that
caused her to draw ~. ~ the request
Of women conductors. the bill for the
protection of women transportation
workers. The employment OF women
IN transportation is "A direct outcomc> OF
The war. At present there are no limits
10 hours and women work anywhere
a
This bill limits their hours TO nine
consecutive hours n day and provides
FOR one days rest In seven.
Miss Rose Sch1elderman, president of
the Women's Trade Union League, conf
pris!ng $4,000 working women. says:
working women want these laws.
speak not only for the organized women
workers. but for the working women
throughout the State who are, as yet. so
new to industry that they are Unorgan-
iscd and can only cry out as individuals.
The ieris!ativ" programme Of the Wom-
er's Trade Union League was formu-
lated at the legislative conference called
by TIE League last June.
The questions of night work for
women and long hours with consequent
fatigue and breaking down of health
were thoroughly discussed. II was recog-
uized that laws limiting the hours o.;
womens labor might injure a few, yet
the benefit would far outbalance the
hardshtps which n few women would
undergo as n result Of being thrown out
Of employment.
The benefits OF the shorter day come
not only to the working men and women
themselves but result In greater indus
trial efficiency and bettcrTent OF the
race. Corporations which haNr been
forced 10 adopt the eight hour day, or
have done so voluntarily, have discov-
cred that they obtain more and better
work in eight hours than they formerly
obtained In ten hours.
''The last thing that working men or
women want is competition between the
sexes. What labor has been suffering
from is too much competition: women
against men and children against wom-
en-. Such competition lowers standards
and injuries all alike. The Iahorug peo-
pic of this country, ms well as OF this
safe, are standing together for equal
opportunity for men and women. and for
pay to he based. not on sex. but on
TIE needs OF life for the worker