Manuscript/Mixed Material National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; 10 of 16
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … NAWSA Subject File Rhode Island Suffrage Assocs Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Only Kind of HourRegulating Bill Fair to All Sec 22 No PERSON shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any factory manufacturing mechanical business or mercantile establishment within this…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Sara Algeo Feb 13 1929 BRIEF ON 48HOUR BILLS submitted by Sara M Algeo Chairman Providence League of Women Voters TEN POINTS FOR A 48HOUR BILL FOR PERSONS By Sara M Algeo…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 2 CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM H TAFT SAYS It is quite possible for men to masquerade as protectors of women in the advocacy of such laws Labor Laws for Women Only when their…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 4 ment of Mr Justice Brandeis in the Duplex Printing Press Company case that labor is dissatisfied with the courts because by virtue of their environment the social and economic ideas of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 6 SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT TO THE TEN POINTS By SARA M ALGEO Chairman Providence League of Women Voters and Chairman Rhode Island Womans Party The action of the National Womans Party the Equal…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 8 vation of our institutions depend upon our educating youth to use reasonably and gloriously the growing leisure which the common use of automatic machinery has in store for humanity We believe…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 10 gentlemen that your right to limit the constitutional rights of women and not those of men will be challenged at the doors of the highest courts if need be The time…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 12 constitutional than one for women and children On the contrary the proponents of a law for persons have the last word of the Supreme Court of the United States on their…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Claims that women must have laws to regulate their employment because they are not so well organized as men workers are founded on the fallacy that all men are members of labor…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION Common Sense Series No 24b 1923 NIGHT SHIFT WORKERS ARE HEALTHIER THAN DAY WORKERS Night shift workers on night shifts not overtime following a days work have their leisure…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … FORTYEIGHTHOUR LAW ENCROACHMENT ON WOMANS LIBERTY Mrs Fred S Fenners Report to Providence League of Women Voters Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Fortyeighthour legislation for women pending in the Rhode Island Legislature encroaches upon the personal liberty of women as citizens and interferes with their rights to contract for their labor according to a…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Equal Rights Association 432 Seventh Avenue New York City 119 Argument for the Establishment by Law of a 48Hour Work Week in Rhode Island Respectfully Submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … who work in the mills The burdens of life are heavier upon them and that is why they need and are entitled to the protection of the law even to a greater…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Fatigue is one of the most common causes of occupational disability This is a prime cause of the fact that bodily development in factory classes remains inferior to that in other social…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … which their profits come to a clean healthy aspiring life does not enter into their calculations at all But illogically enough while the employers are concerned only with profitmaking Mr Sibley their…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … silk industry in Pennsylvania that as the industry becomes settled and the laborforce built up as a permanent factor instead of a seasonal one as of farm workers doing factory work for…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … The Consolidated Textile Corporation started as a Southern concern and when it came North it bought out the B B R Knight mills at 4600 per spindle whereas the actual value was…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … will find therein the facts as to who controls the vast majority of the mills in the Southland The very frankness of Mr Goddards statement shows conclusively that along with other large…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … During this fiveyear period the company has paid two stock dividends one of 20 per cent in 1917 and one of 100 per cent in 1920 The first made a gift of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … No 1 DIVIDENDS Common 126000 126000 126000 252000 195000 825000 Preferred 70000 70000 70000 210000 287000 707000 ââââ ââââ ââââ ââââ ââââ ââââ Total 196000 196000 196000 462000 482000 1532000 Bal to…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … of 22 12 per cent It didnt mix very well with the workers Christmas dinners but deflation was the order of the day we were told The textile workers swallowed their medicine…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … a share less than the market price of the stock before the new stock was distributed as spoils In the last generation the Pacific Mill stockholders have received profits enough to pay…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … I will very briefly indicate the profits made by Massachusetts textile mills under the 48hour lawnot merely the profits which have been paid out in cash dividends To make this showing as…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … is fair measure of a period of depression for mills operating under the 48 hour law in the cotton industry of New England and manufacturing the grades of goods in most direct…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … and a State that the war showed the people to be the least physically fit among all her sister States is direfully in need of economic legislation It has been repeated and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … BRIEF Submitted to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF RHODE ISLAND by ALICE W HUNT Representing the BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CONSUMERS LEAGUE OF RHODE ISLAND In support…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 3 Actual Earnings of Northern and Southern Mills The following table shows the average weekly earnings of Northern and Southern Textile Operatives compiled from the National Industrial Conference Report and the letter…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … ResultâShortage of Labor will inevitably result in further increase of wages 8 The advantages of the South in Raw Material are overestimated a On short staple cotton used in coarse grade goods…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … For the number of products in which Massachusetts leads the country after four years of the 48hour law see Industry February 7 1923 p 4 Rhode Island makes the same kind of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … D Even the Supreme Court of the United States has been convinced of the necessity of protecting women and children by law and has made it quite clear that these laws are…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … As one of the opponents of the 48hour Bill has circulated throughout the State the statement in his brief that There is no evidence that the light work offered to women in…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … 2 It has the highest percentage of working children of any northern state Woonsocket has the highest rate of child labor of any city in the United States United States Census 1920…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … It is obvious that the production under a 54hour week would be greater than under a 48hour week if it were not for fatigue Fatigue due to excessive hours of labor is…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … B States that have a 48hour week are noted for their hotels California Colorado Oregon Washington and District of Columbia If hotels in these states can prosper on a 48hour week hotels…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Page 12 No evidence that the light work offered to women in textile mills causes fatigue or breakdown of the worker The death rate of young women employed in textile mills is…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … Textile WorldJanuary 1923 Textile Additions Listed in One Month Geneva Mill Wanskuck Co Card and Spinning dept 50 per cent Esmond Mill Esmond R I Building addition Eddy Finishing Co 1001 Turks…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … In the District of Columbia where there is a very strict eighthour law for women only there is a fair field for investigation One worker in the Research Department of the National…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851
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Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Rhode Island suffrage associations; … That in the interests alike of maximum productivity and race preservation it is imperative that the National Minimum should be prescribed by law and systematically enforced in respect at least of resttime…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Date: 1851