Women's Labor Broadside Calling for Fair Working Hours, New York Circa 1915-1930

New York

Broadside

[Women's Employment] Workingmen Want this Bill! An Act To Amend the Labor Law Relative to Hours of Labor. Utica: Utica Trades Assembly, n.d. Measuring 9.5" x 6" on tan paper. A women's labor broadside calling attention to the modification of "labor laws relative to the hours of labor" for women and minors in New York. Decorated in bold black lettering, the slogan reads "Workingmen Want this Bill!", followed by the contention that the bill "provides for a half holiday on Saturday for women and minors employed on factories without the necessity of working overtime on other days of the week". This is succeeded by the presentation of the act by "The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, with excerpts from Sections 1, 2, 3, and 77. Section 77 states that "Hours of labor of minors and women--No minor under the age of eighteen years, and no female shall be employed at labor in any factory in this State before six o'clock in the morning or after nine o'clock in the evening of any day, or for more than ten hours in any one day of [sixty] fifty six hours in any one week, nor more than six hours on the last day of the week...". As of this writing, OCLC reports fewer than three copies in the United States. This document seems to follow some text from the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916). In very good condition.

Item #18979

Price: $225.00