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m "We ask that for -women the long workday be cut from ten hours to eight hours. And for the child work ers between 14 and 16 we ask that the workday be abolished entirely in factories and all biita.ew necessary employments, such asstreet work trades. ' "These little mothers of the future are many of them girls who will mar ry and bring up children. The ques tion we are raising before the legis lature is whether it is fair to the chil dren of the uture to drive these girls into factories and shops before they have had a decent chance to develop ttieir bodies and train their minds. t "So we demand that Illinois laws shall keep out of factories and place in schools" those girls between 14 and 16 now working. "Our present child labor law in Illi nois prohibits night work for children under 16. The new measure prohibr its night work for child-girls under l$f "Our present child labor law in UlT nois provides an eight-hour day for children under 16. Our new measure extends the eight-hour day provision to girls under 18." A letter sent to all Illinois manufac turers by their association says that a general meeting "of those visiting Springfield will be held in the Y. M. C. A., Tuesday morning, March .30." o o '. C. REPLACES MEN WITH "WOMEN AT TICKET PUNCHING J The Illinois Central Railroad, one of the bitterest foes of union labor in (Jhicago, has introduced another plan by which they hope to lop off oper ating expenses and declare larger djividendSj ' Yesterday at the 57th and 60th st. stations of the road women ticket punchers were placed at work. They were both formerly employed by the road as ticket agents. They say 'their pay has been increased for accepting (he new jobs. But they are receiving less money than the men whose places they have taken. Officials of the road admit it is an experiment ahd that if the plan is a success women will replace the men in all of the stations. FERRY SAYS PROPOSED TAXI LAW MEANS MONEY LOSS Disregarding the ordinance pre pared by Commissioner of Public Service Ferry, an ordinance will be introduced to the council tonight which will compel the taxi companies to accept a reduction of 10 cents' in their rates for the first half mile. If this ordinance passes they will lose money, according to Ferry. Ferry advocates two classes of service, one for the business man and the other for the pleasure seeker. The first would cost 30 cents for the first half mile and the second would cost 50 cents. Taxis would be dis tinguished by a colored star. The department of public service, by compiling one of the most thorough taxi cab rates ever made, proves that the companies would not lose money with this plan in opera tion. Representatives of every com pany will oppose the ordinance to night because they will lose money if it is accepted. Lobbyists for the taxi companies prophesy its defeat HE'S THE WHOLE TOWN Medford, Mass. Haines, not being content with office of mayor, chief of police and fire chief, assumed duties of "official pig chaser." ' Thousand porkers escaped during fire Satur day. o o JUDGE FINED; SATISFIED Pittsburgh. County Judge Wil liam Way said that he had "had an impartial hearing and was thorough ly satisfied," after a Bellevue burgess had fined him $10 for careless auto mobiling. o o THE HARDEST JOLT! Cleveland. Police found two bars of soap ill the pockets of a tramp and arrested him as a suspicious character.