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Show NEW LAWS ARE NOW IN FORCE All existing liquor licenses are subject to the new liquor law and all regulative features of ths sam went into effect on the 9th; and as well, all laws passed by tne recent legislature, if it were not specifically designated that they come into force at ano.her date, became effective at 12 o'clock midnight M jnday Those laws are now in for bat it may t be possible that the officers of municipalities muni-cipalities will allow a certain term of grace during which those affected may have opportunity to comply with the new regulations. Attorney General Albert R. Barnes. Partitions, booths and curtains are now prohibited in all saloons. Public drinking rooms and cafes will not be permitted to have liquor licenses, but wnen the present licenses expire October Oct-ober 1, the law will not prohibit a pat-tron pat-tron irom paying a waiter to get the booze next door. All of the saloons of Salt Lake City will be materially effected by the prohibitive pro-hibitive features of this new law by compelling them to alter their interiors. All free lunch stands, billards, music a'ndgames alike mast be dispensed with. Women can no longer be employed for more than nine hours per day or more than fifty-four hours per week. Some employers of women will try experiments ex-periments of giving rest hours during tne day, while others will have to increase in-crease their forces and rearrange shifts. The telephone company will be affected all over the state. Canning and candy companies and otner industries, where perishable material is handled by women, wo-men, may employ their female help longer if it can be shown that the material ma-terial will spoil by drawing the line at nine hours. Henceforth there will be no newspaper carriers under twelve years of age, and elevator boys are to be men from now on. Banking houses in Salt Lake City will have to abandon their branches in other parts of the state. It will be unfashionable, beginning on the 9th, for any dealer in tobacco to give or sell to minors. This law interests inter-ests the juvenile court. The new law on coercion makei it illegal for strikers to do picket duty such as was performed during the recent laundry strike. Coercion of any kind, from joining the union to giving contributions, con-tributions, is tabooed. Beginning now the sego lily may bloom officially as the state flower. The selling of opium or its derivatives is made a felony and the penalty is not less tnan two years in the penitentia.y upon conviction. One of the most drastic gambling lawseven enacted in the wet is in effect at present, made possible by an amendment amend-ment to the old law. |