In that time a waitress who is tolerably busy _walks_ ten miles, and the dishes she carries back and forth aggregate in weight fifteen hundred to two thousand pounds.

Don't you think eight hours a day is enough for a girl to walk ?" Only one thing stood in the way of the passage of the bill after that day.

The doubt of its constitutionality proved an obstacle too grave for the friends of the workers to overcome.

It was decided to substitute a ten-hour bill, an exact duplicate of the "Oregon Standard" established by the Supreme Court of the United States.

The principle of limitation upon the hours of women's work once established in Illinois, the workers could proceed with their fight for an eight-hour day.
The manufacturers lost their fight, and the ten-hour bill became a law of the State of Illinois.