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foundry and it was light work, women could do it and men who owned foundries had been employing them in work in the core room. It was a good job and the labor people put through a bill to stop women from going into this.

Years after, when I was Industrial Commissioner, we made a study to see if we should make any variations from that requirement of law, which we by that time had the right to do, although not originally. We discovered that there ought to be a limitation on the weight of the load which women carried. They carried it on cradles like the cradles on which you carry marsh hay - a long, two poled cradle with bars across. Two people can carry it like you carry a stretcher, or one person can carry it. That was the kind they used because they had great boxes of sand. What we discovered was that if the load was too heavy, it was not fit for women, but a normal load, which one person could carry was not too much for women, or for two carrying a load. We finally made a variation and limited the weight of the load that women could carry.

The labor people were also very willing and anxious to pass a law which forbade women working at wet grinding in any kind of concern where you grind instruments and tools. They passed that because that kept women out of the operation, the theory being that they got tuberculosis, but so do men