Home work prohibited.
=Should Adult Women and Children be Listed Together in Labor Laws ?=--There is grave question whether some of these items listed as essentials in the protection of women in industry, and certainly useful in the peculiar conditions of munition manufacture into which women rushed in such vast numbers in answer to the call of war, should form a permanent outline of the relation of law to women workers.
Some of them have, and clearly, a place in any future code in peace time.

The requirement for one day of rest in seven; the demand that quality and power of labor, not sex, shall set the wage-scale; and the legal requirement for sanitary, safe, and moral conditions in workshops and factories, all are vital to sound social demand in the interest of women workers.

Are these not also demands for just labor conditions of men?
The eight-hour day is now fixed as a standard for men and women alike, with the forty-eight hour a week definition.

A minimum wage, including cost of living for dependents as well as for individuals involved, has justice at its base, but requires for its application less a blanket sum indicated by law than a wages-board or other form of discriminating commission with power to adjust flexibly, with due consideration of place and of quality of work, the wages to the task.

Conditions of labor should be "good" in all cases, and what is good should be fixed by disinterested persons.