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Show Etght: Hour Law Not fo Med filiation In Ftah. or other states with an eight-hour law- for women, can Women act ns registration agents, when the! law requires that they Keep their of-j flcefl open for thirteen hours? This j was the question which Dan B. J I Shields, attorney general for Utah, was asked to answer ytsterday Mr Shield's answer was that they I can. The question was plaeod before the i attorney general by the industrial com- , mission, which has charge f the en- j forcemcnt of the eight-hour law That law provides tha-. "no female xhall be I employed In any nranufarturiner, m-jchanlcil. m-jchanlcil. or nien-atiMIe est . olishment, : i laundry, hotel, restaurant or telegraph I or telephone s'.a'dlshment hospital I or office, or by any ercpros.s or trans- j I portatlon company ID ..his stat. more , j than eight hours during any one day, , raid eight hours to be worked in not j I more than two wording periods and within twelve consecutive hours." Certain exceptions are CXprcsslj provided pro-vided undf the law Mr. Shields says: I will say that this is an exception excep-tion to the general rule and the registration reg-istration agent would be obliged to be present for registering voters during the hoart? set forth " The hours of registration arc from 8 o'clock in the morning until '. o'clock at night. In verbal explanation of his stand, Mr Shlel,.- H..n. - out that a regls- tration place for voters can hardly be eonsidered intended by the legislators legisla-tors to be included In any of the occupations oc-cupations enumerated. furthermore, he says, in continuity the dutici of a registration r.gent may be considered as somewhat similar to thos? of domestic do-mestic service, and the legislators did not inelude thai n tne elght-ROUr law. Aside from all this. Mr. Shields said, ilt lu a legislative act which provides I for the eight-hour limit of employment employ-ment for women, and for the exceptions- It Is also a legislative act which provides the hours when a reglst ration office shall be open The legislature does not exclude women from be- coming rtrluration agents. On these I legal grounds, If on no other, he said, ; the dunes of registration agent would ibeJi legal exception to the eight-hour I la |