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you could go at it statute by statute, and state by state. Nothing was wrong with the United States law particularly. You could go at it statute by statute.

It is true that women are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and in the New York State Law and in some other state laws there is a prohibition against employing women in core rooms, in foundries, and in dust-creating places, potteries, emory wheels, and things like that. Well, those were put in at the time when we didn't know how to eliminate the dust. It's a ridiculous question now, because we require dust-collectors with a strong draft on every machine, whether men or women work at it, so that there's no great point. It really ruled out women from those jobs.

You see, the thing that bites the Woman's Party hardest of all is the prohibition of night work for women. Those night work prohibitions came into the general regulations that were in operation during the War. The Woman's Party has always vowed that those are the best jobs. Those are the high paid jobs, and there are plenty of women who would rather work at night. But you remember that during the War, we did loosen up some of the restrictions on women's work at night, and it was quite disastrous. We used to require the employers to provide automobile transportation from the factory to the home, when they released women on a four o'clock shift--when they got off at four o'clock in the morning, or





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