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Show Children were working long hours in fields and factories. Rep. introduced the Child Labor Amendment to the Utah Constitution and also to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment would regulate wages and hours. She worked assiduously for the passage of the legislation and Mrs. Musser in the Senate gave her wholehearted support. The bills passed and the legislature adjourned. At the 1 ast hour of the 1 ast day b.efore a pocket veto woul d go into effect, Governor Blood signed the bills. For this act he received a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt. Bosone later, Reva Bosone was reelected to the legislature, this time from Salt Lake County. During the organization of the House she ran for Speaker but was defeated by a few votes. She succeeded in winning the Majority leader post, and was Chair of the important was The social Sifting Committee. legislation in which she interested in were bills concerning the working class. Most of them passed. Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, sent her congratulatory wires on her record in the House. Two years Rep. Bosone was elected to be a judge in Salt Lake City. William Leary, Dean of the Law School of the University of Utah, nominated her at the convention and she became the first woman so elected in Utah. She served as judge from December 1, 1936 until December 31, 1948. During her term she organized the Tri City Traffic Committee, Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden, and became its first chairperson. She organized a Traffic School at the police In 1936, Dean station and reduced fines for offenders who passed its examination. During World War II, Judge Bosone was a member of the Salt Lake County Welfare Committee; and served as chair of the Women's Army Corps Committee of the 9th Service Command and of the Consumers League. In 1948, Reva was elected to Congress where was she vice president for served two terms. she made numerous speeches and keynote Utahs Congresswoman, addresses to conventions and cl ubs from New York to Texas, and appeared on Town Meeting of the Air in Oregon and New York. Her and alcoholism to United Nations, the from ranged subjects reclamation. All topics in which she was vitally interested. As Some The of her accomplishments were: first woman to serve on the Interior House of Called Committee of the U.S. Representatives. the first hearing on the Colorado River Project. Stopped the closing of the Hill Air An Editorial on her Indian Bill Force Base in Utah in 1950. in the Saturday Evening Post, June 1950. Passage of the Weber Basin Project Bill. $70,000,000. 17 |
