HUMANE LEGISLATION.
Senator Helen King Robinson of Colorado, says, “1 am tired of these constant slurs, I am tired of being used as an anti-suffrage argument; we have a more humane Legislature in Colorado than in the non-suffrage States. Our canning industries are as important as those of New Jersey In New Jersey's canning factories the workers may keep at their work as long as Hesh and blood will stand it. In Colorado we have an eight hour day for the workers in the canneries. Colorado women stand as a unit for numane laws. The last Colorado General Assembly passed an industrial Disputes Act, which has already prevented one strike that threatened Denver. By this act both sides in a dispute between employer and employees must appear before an industrial commission. This is the most advanced legislation (industrial) now in force in any state in the Cnion. It is time other States stopped pointing their fingers at Colorado and began to think of following her example.
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 247, 18 January 1916, Page 8
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166HUMANE LEGISLATION. White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 247, 18 January 1916, Page 8
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