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Show VOMAfi'S EIGHT liCU.l C1L PASSED CI COLORADO bRNVKR. March II The senate peased oa third reading the woman's eight-hour bill. The vote wee II to 4. ttsnaior Cornfertth who attacked the eonatltutlenellty of the bill, waa hissed by women In the gallerlee. More then two hundred women, aome of them well known leadera In women's dub effeire. hed gathered to give approval af tba aieaaure by their preeenve. Hens tor Comfort h characterised the gathering ns "mob" and aald It waa such coercion that caused many unconstitutional uncon-stitutional lawe to be Bleosd oa the statute stat-ute bonka, Kenny bad the word "men" left his Hps when the hleetng stnned. "I siippneed all the women here teday were ledlee. but I ara bound to change my opinion of come of them. They can t ecere me by tnelr kieeing," aauaaJnesd Coinforth. ' "Mv mother Was not a etuh woman and I thank Ood for It. ghe reared her family fam-ily while her husband waa at AnUeuvm fighting for hie oountry." Aaam a blaa. followed try a aojekor Whl'h swept thronah ths gallertee, benator t'ortiftM-th said tltet the etght-hour etght-hour lew would throw nil women out of employment and give their plecee to Jap-aneee, Jap-aneee, Chineee and atlier alien labor. |