Burcher v. People

Defendants were tried and convicted under an *497information charging them with violating the provisions of section 3 of the so-called “Women and Children Labor Act” of 1903 (Session Laws 1903, p. 309; 3 Mills’ [Rev.] Stats. 757). It reads:

“No woman of sixteen years of age or more shall be required to work or labor for a greater number than eight hours in the twenty-four-hour day, in any mill, factory, manufacturing establishment, shop, or store, for any person, agent, firm, company, co-partnership or corporation, where such labor, work or occupation, by its nature, requires the woman to stand or…