Forgotten And

Hour-limiting work laws for New Jersey females, including the 1923 law, which had no enforcing penalties, have exempted employes in the New Jersey canning industry. In the recent legislative session a new law was passed exempting the canneries but otherwise prohibiting the working of women between midnight and 7 a. m., with $25 to $50 fines for first offenses, $200 for second, jail for recalcitrants. Harkening to pleas of the South Jersey glassmakers and Atlantic City hotel and restaurant owners, Republican Senator Charles E. Loizeaux rushed through a last-minute measure to extend the exemptions. Last fortnight somebody discovered that the law read, "canneries . . ., glass manufacturing establishments and hotel restaurants." It should have read "hotels and (or) restaurants." "I don't know just how it happened," said Senator Loizeaux. "It was the last day and the last bill and I didn't . . . check up on the wording." Hundreds of waitresses, entertainers, hat-check girls and employes in other than hotel restaurants would have been more worried about their jobs except that the Legislature is expected to remedy the omission at a special session already called for other purposes on June 28.

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