The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-03-12

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Dor law extending the application
of the present Federal child labor
tax laws, raising the age minimum
for general employment from IA to
16 years and the age for employ
ment at night to s years.
(5) Recognizing the importance
of worldwide Standardization of
industry we favor the participation
of the L. S. in the International La
Dor Conference and the appoint
ment of a woman delegate to the
next Conference.
". We recommend to the States
legislative provision for
GD The limitation of the hours
of work for women to not more
than hours in any one day, or A
hours in any one week, and the
granting of one days rest in seven.
(2) The prohibition of night
work for women in industrial un-
dertakings.
CD The compulsory payment
of a minimum wage to be fixed by
a Minimum Wage Commission at an
amount which will insure to the
working woman proper standard
of health, comfort and efficiency.
(4 Adequate appropriations for
the enforcement of labor laws, the
appointment of technically quail
fled women as factory inspectors
and as heads of Women in Indus
try Divisions in the State Factory
Inspection apartments.
V. We urge upon the Federal
Board of Vocational Education and
upon State and local Boards of
| Commissioners of Education, the
necessity of giving to girls and
women full opportunity for educa-
tion along industrial lines and fur
ther recommend the appointment of
women familiar with the problems
of women in industry as members
and agents of the Federal Board of
Vocational Education and of SINH
lar State and lobal Boards.
VT. Recognizing that the FEEDER
al, State and Local Governments
are the largest employers of labor
in the United States, we urge
(a) an actual merit system of ap-
pointment and promotion based on
qualifications for the work to be
performed these qualifications to
be determined in open competition,
free from special privilege or pref
erence of any kind and especially
from discrimination on the grounds
of sex;
(b) a reclassification of the
present Federal Civil Service upon
this basis with a wage or salary
scale determined by the skill and
training required for the work to
be performed and not on the basis
of sex;
(c) a minimum wage in Feder-
al State and Local Civil Service
which shall not be less than the
cost of living as determined by Of
ficial investigations;
Cd provisions for an equitable
retirement system for superannuat-
ed public employees;
(e) enlarging Of Federal and
State Civil Service Commissions so
as to include groups. in which
men and. women shall be equally
represented, namely, representa-
tives of the administrative officials
Of the employees, and OF the gem
eral public, and
(D the delegating to such COM
missions of full power and respon-
sibility for the maintenance Of an
impartial, non-poitical and effi-
cient administration.
VII, Finally, the Department
recommends that the League of
Women Voters shall keep in touch
with the Woman's Bureau of the
Z. S. Department Of Labor. securing
information as to the success or
failure OF protective legislation In
this and other countries, as to
standards that are being discussed
and adopted, and as to the results
of Investigations that are made,
Unanimously adopted February
IA. 1920, by the Committee Oh Pro
lection of Women in Industry of the
League of Women Voters, Mrs,
Raymond Robins, Chairman, sub
sequently by full Convention,
Respectfully submitted,
MISS GRACE ABBOTT,
| Chairman.