For Judge Tuthill issued an injunction against the State Factory Department, forbidding them to enforce the ten-hour law.
Immediately a number of women's organizations joined hands with the women's trade unions in the fight to save the bill.

When it came up in the December term of the Illinois Supreme Court, Louis D.Brandeis of Boston, the same able jurist who had argued the Oregon case, was on hand.

This time his brief was a book of six hundred and ten printed pages, over which Miss Pauline Goldmark, of the National Consumers' League, and a large corps of trained investigators and students had toiled for many months.

The World's Experience Against the Illinois Circuit Court, this document might well have been called.

It was simply a digest of the evidence of governmental commissions, laboratories, and bodies of scientific research, on the effects of overwork, and especially of overtime work, on girls and women, and through them on the succeeding generation.