Show I NIGHT WORK AM n O IJ X Spokane Spokesman A law it recently passed In New ew York prohibiting prohibiting pro pro- tho the employment of women women wo wo- mud men it in factories between 0 9 J p. p m m. and andI I 3 3 a a. a m m. has been declared unconstitutional unconstitutional b by the appellate division of ot the st state slate te Supreme court but hut It Is I's s questionable questionable ques Ques- ti whether the reasoning reasoning- on which the majority opinion of the court was ba based cd will willbe b g-en g generally concurred con con- curre l In Tho court held huld that In order to sustain the provision forbidding forbidding forbid forbid- ding night work for women we must find ind that owing to some ph physical Ical or 01 nervous difference it Il Is more harmful for fOl a n woman to work at night than for a man to do so and we wo are arc not aware of any sue such difference It would seem that there ought not miot notto notto to bo be mu much h difficulty in establishing tho the difference bet between nien Blen men and women women women wo wo- men to withstand the hardships V and inconveniences of night work It certainly certainly eel ought to be easy to demonstrate rate the moral danger and Injury to wom women women wo wo- m men n especially young OUn women who are arc obliged to be bo on th the thO streets late V at atI night going soing to or from flom work Night york work is Js conceded concededly I less healthful than da day work for men as aswell aswell well as us for women Women are aro UnquestIonably unquestionably un un- questionably weaker than men and there theme must be a greater greatel cOne corresponding degree legree of for tor them in night work than for men It is possible possible possible pos pos- sible that this seemed so bO self evident that It vas WIK not impressed upon the court t In in New York with sufficient force The Th declaring of the Ihu prohibitory law unconstitutional while it directly hf- hf only Nc New v York state stale will vilI V be lie regretted everywhere as a i judicial Utterance ut utterance utterance ut- ut terance Inimical to the wl widespread ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts that are Ule being made to lo prevent unwise and Injurious labor conditions being Imposed upon women |