Testimony of working women, 1914

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Q. Your Idea wf a remedy would be censoring the picture or forbidding children to be there? A. Forbidding children to be there. Some of the very beet places we have tragedy taking place, and it Is all right for a grown person, but it doesn't seem to me It is aay place for a little bit of a child. There are impressions there he never will get over.
Q. Isn't that a pretty severe penalty upon the child? A, I don't think so»  I was brought up on a farm.  I never attended them until I was 21 years of age and I donit think I am any worse for it.  Isn't the child better off playing in his father's back yard than he is to go. and-watch any kind of a tragedy or a picture of any tragedy? That is the position I take.
Q. Have you a curfew law in this olty, Ur.MayorS  A* No sir*
Q. Have you ever tonsidered that question In your council? A« The council has never considered that question. Havethe fathers and mothers keep the children in the house.  The best place for them Is thehome,
Q. Is It not the duty of every city government to assist the parents and do everything In Its power to keep straight? A. It certainly Is.
Q» Is It not the experience of every olty that a curfew law enforced is a great help In that line? A. That Is soothing that I have not Investigated.
Btatement of Anna, Lancaster»
SENATOR TEASDALE: You are matron of the Diamond Match Co.? A, I am the matron of all of them In the Diamond Match Co., the glrlt and the boys es well.
Q. What are your duties?  A, My duties are to do everything for them that a mother would In the home. If they hurt themselves or tear their clothes or In any way need help euoh as a mother would give at home I would give It, and I am with them at the noon hour, and In any way that I can help them I do just as a mother would In a home,
Q. What conveniences are there in regard to the care of girls In case of sickness or anything of that kind? A. I have a room with a very good emergency kit and a couch where the girls lie down If they need to, and If 111 I take them home or to a doctor, andl also go through the factory, every part of It, several times a day, and any time when I see anything that could be done to help the girls I do so;  If a girl looks bad, or the air Is bad, and If there Is an accident I look to see If It Is the fault of the machinery,
Q. If the girls have any complaints they make them to you? A.Yes.
Q. If you think best you report them to the management? A. Yes.
Q. Otherwise you tkke care of them yourself? A.Yes,
Q, Do you have any complaint from the girls In regard to any Impos¬ ai conditions or practices In the factory? A. No.
Q. Never have had?  A.No.
Q. How long have you been there? A. Six months.
Q, You are the first in that position? A.Yes.
Q. You have no dher duties, except just those outlined here? A.No. They may not sound like mich, but it Is a lot to mother 3OO girls.
SENATOR MONK:  How many boys?  A. 600.
Q. Do you not have more trouble with the 3OO girls than with the 600 boys? A. No. The girls work very hard andthey juat have one hours nooning.
Q, Have you any suggestion as to changeH about the factory, as to rules, or management or supervision? A. Why, yea.  I would give them a half ho\ir nooning instead of an hours nooning»
Q. The doctors say that Isn't time enough. A. They all eat In
ten minutes. I was In a factory at B ., a match factory, and
there they had a half hour nooning and they gave them the opportunity of getting out a half hour eeu-ller at night.   When they get out at six It makes a pretty short time —
Q. Have you taken it up with -ba management? A. It Is a state law that they must have a one hour nooning, I took that up with a repre-