Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1914 — Shall Women Work pt Night? [ARTICLE]

Shall Women Work pt Night?

If a woman desires to have the extra wage which night labor brings, if she doesn’t find it injurious to her health, if, in a word, she prefers to work at night instead of during the day, why shouldn’t she be allowed to do.so the same as a man? Certain kinds of Work must be performed at night; and no reorganization of industry will make it different, writes Frances Frear, in Leslie’s. Certain positions in such work are peculiarly suitable to women, but new labor laws wojxld prevent women from filling these positlbns. Four women recently appeared before the state factory Investigating commission in New York city protes/ing against any change in the labor law that would prevent them from doing night work. Miss Joe Coffin, who has worked for 20 years in the printing department of a newspaper, said that she liked night work and could not see the justice of being compelled to work in the daytime because some one else didn’t like to work at night.