Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-01 | Page 3 | Women in Utah Legislature Do some Good Work

I WOMEN IN UTAH i LEGISLATURE DO I I SOME GOOD WORK SALT LAKE. Utah. March 31. I Women members of the Utah lcgisla-I. lcgisla-I. ture had much success with meas- ures they were, to an extent respon I sible for, at the Thirteenth biennial ! legislature, recently adjourned In dividually. however, their bills did not fare so well. As members of com I I mlttees on health and education the I L work of the women legislators at the mosl recent session may be considered H successful. I Four women occupied seats in the I session just passed. Mrs. Elizabeth 1 y Ilayward of Salt Lake was a member I I of the senate. The other three. Mrs. I I Oelora Wilkins Blakely, Mrs. Anna T. Pir-rcry r: n 1 1 I ir ( Irarr -Stratton Airey, t, were members of the house of repre- scntatives. Women in the Utah leg- islature are not a 'novelty, however, for Utah has long been a suffrage ' 1 state and the women have had repre-I repre-I sentalion ever since suffrage was ' granted. Mrs. Hay ward introduced a mini- i f ber of bills In the senate, but th I measure upon which she worked con-I con-I sistently providing an eight-hour day J I for women was killed during the ses- sion. She was successful in having I passed and Bigned by the governor. however, a bill placing the matter or The employment of children under ih-state ih-state industrial commissi' n m-ii-ad ol , tht. juvenile court. Mrs Hay ward al-K al-K fo was responsible- for a joint resolu-Btion resolu-Btion authorizing the governor to ap Bpolnt a committee to consider a suit-Kable suit-Kable memorial to be presented to I Utah's soldiers and sailors. The resolution reso-lution memorializing eonerress to pass i wthe Susan B. Anthony suffrage amend - I r went to the national constitution. I which was passed, was offered by I Mrs Hayward. Mrs. Plercey's principal bill, provid- King for a minimum wage for women land minors, met defeat. A measure 1 Fprovidine for hours of employment of ' women in ci rtain classes of work, be- came law, however, and credit for ; this measure is due to Mrs. Piercey A similar measure introduced in tne I senate by Mrs. Hayward, was lost be- cause, it was said, it was too gen-feral gen-feral in Its terms. Mrs. Piercey also II was responsible for a measure for the rl benefit of returned soldiers and sail- I f ors a memorial to congress asking ' that necessary steps be laken to re-f re-f tain the preferential right of soldiers and sailors on the list of eligibles in I the civil service list. Mrs. D. W. Plakely. another mem-her mem-her of the lower house, was the au- j thor ot several bills, two ol ihe im- i ( portant ones being killed. A measure r providing for support of widowed, 1 -V pendent mothers, of which she was the i f author, became law, however. Dr. Airey, who has served in former r. legislatures, was prominent in com- J - mitten work, but bills of which she was the author ddi not fare well, three j I more or less important measures of 1 hers being killed, one through an I "error," a clerk failing to inclode the enacting clause when engrossing the hill, which had been passed. It pro- lded for the establishment of a home i for fallen women.