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Show Illinois Factory Women. The supreme court of Illinois has decided de-cided that the eight hour law, or, as it is generally known, the sweat shop law, is unconstitutional. The law prohibited pro-hibited the employment of women for more than eight hours a day or more than 48 hours a week in any factory in Illinois. Probably 40,000 women in Illinois Il-linois who work in factories are affected affect-ed by the decision, 32,000 of whomliva in Chicago. They are employed in the main in shoe factories, cloak and clothing cloth-ing houses, candy factories, paper box shops and various other manufacturing establishments. The judges also pronounced pro-nounced unconstitutional section 10 of the bill, which provided an annual appropriation ap-propriation of 20,000 for factory inspectors, in-spectors, whose ch:ef duty was to see that the eight hour clause was enforced. This will probably end the valuable work that the women factory inspectors have been carrying on, with Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Kelley as their chief.--Springfield Letter. |