Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-26
DISCRIMINATION IN WOHAN'S
WAGES.

TIE annual report q the Massa.
chusetts State Board Of Labor Sta
ti-.ics furnished some figures that
will Interest the promoters OF rorn-
ans cause, aud lie profitable to al
who pay attention 10 the labor ques-
ton.
Taxing the loves. rate Of wages
for the first comparison Of relative
male ami female pay, itappears that
Of actual wages paid to Us, 300 en-
pioyes % both sexes $50 per cent Of
all males receive less than $
week, ass per cent les than $, and
gu Fer cent less than g. About
about one-fifth Of all males average
less than 81 per day. The females
wsrking,at this low scale Of wages
comprise TZe9 per cent Of all the
workers. No intelligent reader viii
fail to realize what this fact means.
IN the higher scale Of wages we
find that II.2I per cent Of all males
receive 50 but under SO per week. |
1871 PEI cent SO but under So,
1887 per cent SD but under So /
and 1919 per cent SI5or over. These /
males, vino com prise 6a.7s ger cent or |
neatly tw0thiris Of all males, re
ceive Sl.5) or more per day. Only
1928 per cent Of the females en-
pl0yeI arr paid similar wages. ~
tbs scale Of wages rises the number
Of femllss enjoying them grows
sJ-a-iiy less. OF a total Of 7,z57
workers receiving So a week ami
over, ouiy 2iS are fsmlles.
From these figures it seems that /
in those kinds Of work for which
the very lowest wages are paid,
WON q form seventy per cent Of the
WORKERS, while they only form three
peg c.at OF the employees in labor
tina hiaEs high rate Of wages.
Enis Is nsl aI. For the same work
pe7fJ-usl with the same skill.
women are paid les than mex ut
the same Establishments.
Everybody eau see ;hiy this is not
j-s-. The question i, why this :
i!scrim IL-i1r: The Bosom Glo5s
says IL is bgeaG-e women carry no
vote, All Therefore Legislators per
nit this Injustice. Women scan q
neither seat nor uus-af a poll {
ician." @
But the regulation Of wages by j
ag mas 40, YET bssn acc omplished d
With any degree OF satisfaction.
TIE li~ Of supply and demand i
% rule in the labor mar !
~, as elsewhere. We do not say
his rI'e always h3lls good. There
re Exceptions. For instance, Jour n
iaiisn is not paid ia anything like +
he sane p-5pDrJions as tine Other
-o.s-s.3us, AMI yet there is no tai "
mt that isssircer, in places where "
aBumlg Is but mga-re remunsr- o'
tisn. rs genuine journalistic abil- =
IS.
In Massachusetts woman Is al -
l1sJ drug on tine labor market. Al
me f-ir sex greatly outuumber tine 7.
-0rkers Of The mlIe persuasion. ar
his, no doubt, las something 20 ! II
o with tine disparity 10 the an
ages IF the tT0 s,z.s. Usu- i>i
Iy, however, = mans work. ~
D most branches OF labor.
really Of more value than a wo- WI
la1's. But il clses where woman,s =
oTk is equal 10 mans in quantity -
a quality, there is no cool reason -,
Iy it shruii commando less price. 7,
Ehese are many things in this f1I
orii that axe "out OF j,iut.'' They tel
III all be put right some day. But on
eanwnila tine weak still suffer from seJ
'u.es by the strong, and true cIvili- loT
tim, justice, liberty and equal ne
ghts exist cliclly in theory. M
Workers for women should con- an
lue thei. IsuEable exertions. and ID,
It cease until the question Of sex =,
ali no longer be permitted 20 inter -,
ne q proven. that which is right. po.
socially or in relation 10 lei
ything tina, affects humanity. eff.