The Daily Worker

NO WOMEN WANT TO WORK MORE THAN 48 HOURS
But Women Unionists Find Opposers

NEW YORK, N. Y.-New York women workers are decidedly in favor of a 48-hour work week law being passed and are indignant that any working woman could be induced to appear in Albany or in Washington against protective legislation for women workers.

Mary E. Dreier, chairman of a conference of organizations interested in the passage of a 48-hour bill for women working in New York factories and stores, says that a poll of women working in Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Troy, Elmira, Binghamton, Watertown, Oswego and other upstate cities proved that it would take a microscope to find working women who oppose the 48-hour-week bill.

Led by the Women's Trade Union League, an "active lobby" of working women will remain in Albany during the legislative session to secure the 48-hour-week bill's passage. Governor Al Smith included the measure in the labor program announced in his annual message to the legislature.

Over 100 women from New York city alone will attend the hearing at which the bill comes up. Workers in shoe, knit goods, textile, collar, clothing, kodak and other factories as well as retail women clerks are affected by the shorter work-week bill. Laundry workers would be another large group aided.

Present New York legislation limits hours to nine for women clerks, waitresses, messengers and elevator operators, 54 hours per week, 6 days. Women in canneries may now work 10 to 11 hours according to season. Work between 10 p. m. and 7 a. m. is also prohibited for women.