Nurses' Hours

Last week patients in Chicago's Frances E. Willard Hospital pushed their buzzers without response. Because the hospital's business manager had refused to discuss a request to raise their wages from $25 to $40 per month, 25 nurses had struck for one hour. For this they were discharged.

For their $25 Frances Willard nurses worked 10 hr. a day. So do most U. S. hospital nurses. Last week in Washington some 4,000 convening members of the American Nurses Association voted approval of "an eight-hour day as the regular working day for nurses." Prospects looked bright for this means of easing nurses' lives, spreading work among some 75,000 of them who are unemployed. Year ago only 19 U. S. hospitals had an eight-hour day for nurses (TIME, May 22). By last week more than 350 hospitals had adopted it.

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