Show TO investigate WORK club omen in taking steps to secure a thorough investigation as to the conditions under women in the united stales have started an excellent movement there has been legislation by several of the states in respect to the employment of women but most 0 athas been comparatively ineffective women still work in american shops and tac 1 and even in mines under circumstances cum stances which are not conducive to their physical and moral good or to that of society one reason why american labor legislation has usually not been effective Is that lawmakers havo not thoroughly understood tho conditions with which they were attempting to deal A correct and complete knowledge of symptoms precede successful diagnoses and prescription tor social as well as for physical ills the body which haa heretofore in this country made the most accurate and searching examinations into tho conditions of employment of women as well as of other workers pad tho wisest recommendations touching their amelioration Is the massachusetts chu labor bureau it has from time lo 10 time submitted elaborate reports upon ahe wages of women he effects of different kinds of work upon their and that of belr offspring tho laboi 13 preferred to service etc owing largely ro the worl of this bureau massachusetts hs perhaps the best i laws regulating the conditions of employment in the culled states tho club women do boj intend how ever to appeal to the states to collect thy data they daira they will call upon congress to have it clone ana president roosevelt it is said i back them the federal government 1 better equipped to make a speedy investigation than are the governments of the states it can turn the job over to the census bureau which has already in its report of 1900 presented elaborate statistics regarding the numbers of women engaged in the various lines of work it seems probable however that in the ion run greater benefits would be conferred upon working women by endeavors to get the states and especially the great industrial and manufacturing states to create cut labor bureaus like that of massachusetts chu than by an appeal to congress the federal government can investigate the work of women but it cannot legislate in respect to it the states can investigate and they can also adopt such laws as the peculiar conditions in each seem to demand furthermore an efficient state labor bureau is a permanently useful institution while the good results of a single investigation ordered by congress are likely to be ephemeral |