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Show TRANSIT COMPANY SERIOUSLY CHARGED NEW YORK, June IS Charging; the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company with "inexcusable neglect," in employing em-ploying women and girl conductors as! young as 14 years and subjecting t hem to conditions "detrimental to their physic. il, nit ni.il .iml nnir.il well-being" a grand Jury here today urged the im- I mediate enactment of legislation "to protect the self-respecting womanhood of the country " The inquisitors, after an investigation investiga-tion covering several weeks, reported that the street railway company had hired women of questionable chain ter and drug addicts and thai they oft-c oft-c n were required to work more than ten hours a day The conditions at the car barns, the grand Jury said, were "injurious to the communis lo I general and particularly as affecting I many decent and self-respecting worn en now employed or desiring employ- ment by the railway companies. Admitting that the war imposes industrial in-dustrial hardships on all classes, the findings stated, that notwithstanding them "in these critical times advan-' advan-' tage should not be taken of labor con-Iditlons, con-Iditlons, but all employers, whether individual in-dividual or corporate, should be com-I com-I pelled by suitable and adequate legislation legis-lation to provide for the health and I morals of their women workers, tture-by tture-by insuring the best of service." The opinion declared that while no Isolation of existing law had been found, no exigency, however great, would warrant the. continuance of the i-onditions revealed. |