WOMEN OF THE HOUR
WOMEN OF THE HOUR Mrs. Raymond Robins THE fate of the Illinois Ten-Hour Law for Women in factories is hanging in the balance. Powerful interests within the state and elsewhere are striving to have...
...Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, the lawyer whose famous brief saved the Oregon Ten-hour Law two years ago...
...It is a good plan to keep a piece of paper under the burners of a gas stove to catch crumbs and grease...
...Robins has renounced both...
...In view of the fact that the fate of the Illinois Ten-hour Law will determine the immediate future of much of the protective legislation for women, it would seem as if we all ought to rally around Mrs...
...Even then the fire burns so slowly that it can be easily put out...
...In her defense of the Ten-Hour Law, Mrs...
...There is no danger of fire unless lighted matches are dropped on it...
...Born to ease and to luxury, Mrs...
...In cutting paper for this, or for the numberless other purposes for which it may be profitably used, prepare several pieces at one time and save work...
...They are carrying on a vigorous campaign and have succeeded in having the subject of the working women's need of shorter hours of labor presented before churches, women's clubs and many other organizations in all parts of the state...
...She is laboring not for but with the working women of the country...
...Robins and work with her...
...Robins has the support of Mr...
...This brief is remarkable in that it contains only three pages of law...
...HINTS TO HOME-MAKERS Perhaps you have no room for a tireless cooker on the floor...
...Powerful interests within the state and elsewhere are striving to have it declared unconstitutional...
...He has volunteered his services and has prepared a brief of 610 printed pages which John R. Commons of the University of Wisconsin says is "certainly the greatest thing that has ever been done on the scientific basis of labor legislation in this or any other country...
...Men as well as women are eligible to membership...
...Raymond Robins of Chicago, president of the National Women's Trade Union League, is the leader...
...It shows that "overwork which strains endurance to the utmost is more disastrous to the health of women than to men and entails upon them more lasting injury...
...The death-rate is high among children of women who have worked hard during girlhood as well as among children of working mothers...
...It brings arguments to prove that "overwork before as well as after marriage has a disastrous effect upon child-birth...
...What it does is to bring to bear on this case the medical testimony of the whole world in regard to the effect of overwork on girls and women, and, through them, on the next generation...
...In this campaign Mrs...
...Are you a member of the women's trade union league...
...In the meantime the little company of women who compose the Women's Trade Union League and who were responsible for the enactment of the law, are putting forth every effort to save it...
...Make one in a large sarawer...
...She has chosen to live among those who are doing the hardest work of the world and are receiving the smallest rewards...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 2
