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,-M4- NOON EDITION ONE-CENT V WOMtf PX4D FOfl CHILD LABOR LAW STYLE HINT FOR THIN GIRLS CUBS PLAN FOR BIG DAY TOMORROW DUNNING ASYLUM BURNING THE DAY BOO An Adless Newspaper Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 167 Chicago, Tuesday, April 13, 1915 398 ' BOSSES ARE HYSTERICAL AS WOMEN PLEAD FOR HEALTH PROTECTION Jit" T T T . m. T T5'l 1..l! juxnpioyers ivave Against decrease in rronis itiuin. With Boisterous Laughter Members of Women's Trade Union League Session Near Riot Stage With the bosses hysterically de manding that their profits should not he decreased by the proposed 8-hour legislation, backed by their selected employes pleading that they be per mitted to work night and day and the women of the Women's Trade Union League insisting that the 8-hour day is necessary as health protection for women workers, the closing session before the 8-hour commission reach ed the semblance of a riot several times. Rep. Benny Mitchell refused to an swer a contemptuously framed ques tion of Dudley Taylor, the bosses' lawyer, or the questions shot at him, by the bosses themselves in high pitched voices; Rep. Hicks had to ap peal to the chairman to have the taunting boisterous laughter and apt plause of- the bosses stopped; Rep. Matsen appealed to the chairman for protection against the insolence of a shopkeeper, and the bosses shouted questions and denunciations at mem bers of the Women's Trade Union League and criticized Jane Addams for her defense of the propesed law. Wm. Hefferman, owner of the Lotus Club and Illinois Club cafe terias, spread out his hands in appeal to the committee not to cut the hours of the workers lest it put him out of business. A shopkeeper stood in the aisle and with his voice breaking with hysteria denounced legislation and organization that cuts the profits of the bosses. n Working women picked by the "bosses from their various- Jtores de- 4. "J 9 k f f 4 A u $ &&&& J? 3 ga ;. ,1 f -Jv-- ,- igjjjggjg