Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-20

hibiting night work for women by a
vote of IL to o.. The bill would pro-
hibit women working in factories.
laundries and bakeries between the
hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m, and
is a duplicate of the bill which was
killed in a senate committee last
year. The bill expressly excludes
canneries from its provisions, the
reason given being that occupations
in canneries are temporary jobs"
The bill, which was a Republican
platform measure, was fought by
Senator Allen, Republican, of
Salem; Mackay, Republican, of Ber-
gen. and Simpson, Democrat, of
Hudson.
Senator Allen, Republican, the
last to speak before the bill was put
to a vote, scored IL in the most bit
ter terms. He described alleged
threats Of political death for those
opposing the bill.
There are no men in the state of
New Jersey" said Senator Allen,
who have used such high-handed
tactics as have been used in regard
to this BILL"
"You must be for this bill as it is
drawn" he declared the legislators
we're told by the hackers of the
measure, cor suffer a political
DEATH"
"They went even so far" he con-
tinued, that men in county jobs
were told that they would be defeat
ed IL they didn't come to Trenton
and tell their representatives to vote
for the bill"
Senator Allen related how a GER
tain woman was sent into his coun-
ty o~stensibly to foster a Republican
woman's organization, but whose
real purpose, according to the sena-
tor, was to further the night work
bill.
If professional lobbyists can die
tate to legislators" he concluded
its pretty nearly time for the n
tors to go back home and let people
come here who have backbone
enough to vote for or against a bill
as their convictions dictate"
Republican Majority Leader Stew
ems, of Monmouth, in speaking for
the bill, alluded to the fact that
both the Republican and Democratic
platforms contained pledges to enact
legislation of this kind, and he in
tmated that the Democrats should
The Democratic BILL" said Sena-
tor Simpson, was an Omnibus
bill; here, for some political reason,
you exclude c~anneries."
Senator Simpson added that the
bill was a most mushy kind of SEN
timental legislation" and further on
designated this legislation as $50
ciahsm."
Referring to the moral uplifters"
who sponsored the bill, Senator
declared:
Il think that women who work in
Ia ctories, launderies and bakeries
are the moral peers of those whose
only glimpse of life is through a
limousine window or a Russian sable
He asserted the bill would throw
/ lot of "defenseless" hard-Working
on the street.
This legislation is in a degree
iiabolical," was Simpsons parting |
shot at the mo night work. bill.
Previous to any debate on the
measure, Simpson, a Democrat, Of
fered amendments to the bill on be-
half of Senator Richards, Republi-
can, of Atlantic, and the New Jer-
sey Hotelman's Association, exclud-
ing from the purview of the act, who
work in hotels and bakeries connect
ed with hotels. The amendments
were objected to by ,jority Leader
Stevens and they were not included,
as it requires unanimous consent to
amend a bill on third reading.
The final vote on the measure vas
follows: For thu bill, Agans, of
Hunterdon. and Barber, Of Warren,
Blackwell, of Mercer;
Case, of Somerset; Larsen, Middle
sex; Parry, Essex; Pierson, Of Union;
Roberts, Burlington: Stevens, Mon
mouth; Senate President, Wallworth,
OF Camden; Whitney,, of Morris, Re-
pub1icans.
Against the bill: Republicans. IL
len, Salem; Bright, OF Cape May:
FODDER, of Gloucester; Mackay. of
Bergen and Smith, of Passaic; Simp-
son Of Hudson, Democrat.
In spite of charges by Senator
Case that the bills looked to him like
an effort to make undertaking and
embaIming a "'closed corporation"
two bills by Senator Pierson, Repub-
lican, of Union, regulating the prac-
tice OF undertaking passed the senate
last night. One bill, which passed IL
1, requires candidates for an en-
balming certificate TO serve one year
with an undertaken and attend an
embalming school for n year and
the other which passed by the same
vote, governs the employment of as
sistants to undertakers. The bills
also require a candidate for an en-
baiming certificate to have a high
educate n or its equivalent.
School Legislation
At a hearing yesterday on a bill
by Senator Whitney. of Morris, for
a Redistribution of state school
moneys, held by the senate educa-
ton committee, DR.. Henry Snyder,
superintendent of schools OF Jersey
City, declared that the bill would not
achieve the purpose for which it was
drawn, but would give state moneys
for schools, to the richest districts
within the counties to which the
L oney is allotted. The bill pro-
poses to distribute state school
money to the counties on the basis
IT attendance and number of teach
ers employed, instead of basing the
amount Of money E county receives
on the county's ratables.
DR.. Snyder declared that the adj
Of the bill were not consis-
.ent. He declared the proponents of
The bill! would take the taxes from
counties. and apportion it to
he Weather districts in the coun-
les which receive the money, be-
these districts would have the