The Washington times., 1910-07-07
Money Held Back, Fair
Workers Cannot Settle
With Tradesmen.
CREDIT VANISHING.
DISTRESS INCREASES
Payments Halted By Check-up
VIII Be Made In Three DAYS.
Durand Explains.

An instruction is threatened at the
Census Bureau
The FIRE has been s-nOuIdering for a
week, while Director Durand sat un-
sUspectiug al his desk. and scores OF
distressed and ErouEht-up girls en-
pI0yed al the punching machines in the
Bureau made heated remarks about
Uncle Sam as an employer. and took
their first lessons in the gentle arr OF
putting or the IandIady or persuad-
ing the la1ndress 60 wait
IL is the sad, sad story OF the pay
day that didn't come Of course. II viii
come along some old time That say
the girls, Is just what they have as
sured the Iandlsdy and the IaUndress-
But when2 That is what the land
lady and the Iaundress always ask IN
return
No Envelopes Appear
When July I, supposedly pay day at
the Census Bureau, arrived, IL bToUsai
no pay envelope TO the girls who are
doing piece work ar the machines Or
which schedules OF the census enumsr-
arors are transferred 10 small printed
cards, from which the dnaI count Is
made by census experts
These girls. many OF whom had come
O. Washington from distant cities, and
v.ere without friends here, declare that
they were placed in a hazardous posi-
Iion when on July they did nJt receive
the approximate sum o. s. due them
from the Census Bureau
PROM the more spirited ones among
them there arose T. storm OF protest
with the result. they- say. that SO was
aaCEed on July . TO those who were
in urgent need OF cash. Some girls, =
= r1 frrsl
70 give their names as among thSsc
who could not wait for the fun ply
meut Of salary, and wired home 90
, father for loan
They Don't Understand.
we don-t know why We weren't
paid said q cl0rus OF voices, when a
: group Of girls vas seen by a Times rep
reSeu-ative-
As early as June -. numbers Of Us
had become suflciently expert on the
punching machines 10 be translerTe6
from the annual saIarE basis Of pay
u1ent TO the basis OF payment by piece.
: OF % cents for every hundr
punched IL IS tr--~ that these cards
have TO be verified before We get any
money But when are they gong 70 oe
Ivarifed2 We want 10 know We have
asked our subCEiefs, and We can't set
I have Just $ in cash. said another
Of the victims OF s'price-pieca work
and II I were called home tomorrow
by q death in the family 1 couldn't 60
/ have no friends here cannot bor-
row What am going 10 dOE
AnG 1 an IN qiSfePute a. my oanN
Z and with my creditors walled still an
0rTe7 one "A note owe vas protested
on July > because 1 vas simply stranded
and had no way TO set money
: Sad, Mad Lot
we owe the IandIady- We owe ev-
erybOdy we've had any dealings with III
washington All We have got here Is a
little credit" t'.sy say individually and
in unison AMI they're a mad sad lot
/ Of girls. Not knowing just whom 10
blame exactly they feel Ike blaming
everybody
= Here those Congressmen have gone
away for the summer without looking
after us charged one OF the insurTCc-
tioEists Ny brOther-iu-law a Con
gresham and you may be sure I an
going 10 let him know what trouble
! I've been in
! Many OF the employees are heartily dis
satisfied because the Bureau dema1 ds
that they work on the punching ma
i@Lines by piece payment instead OF By
regular salary
Others Make More
They assert that scores OF girls are
making SO per month at clerical wcrk
. in the Bureau. while those who operate
D the punching machines have a far more
? difficult task and when paid by the
piece probably viii not be able 70 earn
I as much as taeir fell0v-workers who til
I easier positions
That is one Of The worst features
3 about our not getting paid, said one
Of the girls. we don't know sOw much
Is coming 20 US for we~-leve- have re-
! celved a payment since being put on
2 piece work. some OF Us on June : and
I others later II we can't make as much
on piece work ab The <iTs are getting
on clerical work. many OF US are going
10 resign and go back home
Durand Surprised
, Director Durand. Of the Census Bu-
? reau, when informed this morning by
: The Times representative OF the dissst-
> isfaction existing among the gieIs at the
$ punching machines. said that this was
= the first occasion on which the matter
: had been brought to MS attention
The girls cannot be paid" he said.
until their work has been verified. This
viii be IN a day or two. now. Inasmuch
a. the price piecGWOrZ sTsteu. only went
- into effect on June Is, and IS ANY Of our
? price pieCewOrkers have bCeu taken on
at later dates the pay was delayed un-
, I'll the work could be svstennatized.
In order TO accommodate the young
3 women. We notified them that they. could
I draw so on JCly = and several who said
3 that they were Inconvenience by not re-
q ceivinG more than this sum were al
lowed to draw a larger one.
The irTeGUlzTity II the pay DAY IS
/ nothing more than would have resulted
{ n any branch of business in which
!. same were UNDERGOING a change We
Il have made every effort TO accommodate re
= the employees. not only III providing the
Z most comfortable environment for their
nsarF in % ar 1F