The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-07

sition that pays less than sS7r asked
I O'Hara OF Rosenwald.
q would not say that was the re-
/ ply
/ There was tense silence, when the
] lieutenant governor, leaning across
the table, with his eyes fixed directly
upon the philanthropist, asked this
question:
Now Mr.. Rosenwald, you are a
/ public spirited man, a member of the
American Vigilance society and this
committee asks you as man If you
think low wages have anything to do
with immortality among women"
| The reply came quickly.
No sir. low wages have no con-
nection with prostitution" answered
Rosenwald emphatically
ANY girl who wants to fall will fan
whether she gets IS week or not,
/ continued the philanthropist- She
may use any subterfuge for surren-
I dering. But there is no connection
/ between low wages and prostitution.
This question ought to be treated on
/ a different moral basis. :
Rosenwald denied having written
i TO VIM Burgess of the American Wig
(, lance society, suggesting that the
| commission SIS ON the wrong track in
/ Investigating low wages. He sad
! that he donated money to nearly all
societies engaged In white slave in
vestigation.
DO you believe that a girl who can
live on less than $40 and gets 50 is
weakened more in her resistance to
the white SLAYER than the girl who
can live on SO week and gets sl2?''
was a question put to Rosenwald.
There is absolutely no association
between the causes, said he.
8 AN honest girl, properly reared
) will not yield, no matter what hel
wages are"
Mr.. Rosenwald was shown report
OF dividends of his company, showing
. a profit for the last year of $1,000. Y
He said he thought the figures cor
rect
DO You think that the employees
], who does not r~y a living wage con
. tributes to the evil of white slavery
he was asked.
!. Il do not believe the question has
4 proper basis, he answered, as
said before, there is no relation be
tween wages and prostitution.
IF you should find after this inves
! !. tigation that your women employe
: are undergrad, would you increas
? their wages?''
I'VE will do what We can in equit
I and justice to them and to ourselye,
in our judgment"
: Here Senator JUL asked question
Don't you think that the stat
;. which gives your gigantic corporatio
!, protection, has some right to judgmer
- in the matter2'
= I'VE viii do what We can, AWAY
regarding the necessities OF compel
~ tion.'
lei Several employers, waiting to tie
I'd tify, applauded this reply.
hosenwald testified that the 81
= plus of his company amounts to 81
100000. He said he was not in p
IS siGon to say whether the compar
would devote part of that surplus
:. increased wages.
What is your personal income
he was asked.
an Il would prefer not to answer"
al said.
81 Gould you live on IS a week."
IN y never tried" he responded, am
he general laughter.
az Rosenwald entered a general deni
ire when he was asked If it was tr
lie. that girls were worked longer tn
"a. ten hours in violation of the law al
Ike the time rolls so doctored to she
,dy that they worked eight hours; til
ave. Official "scolders" were employed
.ed speed up fatigued girls; that gil
were forced to work in rooms wi
out ventilation to prevent dust FRI
1le getting on white goods; that his G
mn. poration keeps stock ads in elias
for fed want columns OF newspapers
to attract labor to Chicago on glitt
ase ing promises. and hereby oversize
any the labor market so that empIoye
her can be had at the price fixed by /
so employer.
Examined by Senator JUL, Ros
mp valid said that girls adrift" could
fills board in decent surroundings
liv $3.50 week. A girl who lived
irin home, could live on So week.
URIC said, If she was not compelled to c
tribute for her meals.
t by He admitted that a So a week
DR.. crease for 1000 of his girl emplo
and would not materially affect the
bot. fits OF his company He was asl
and II in view Of this fact, he conside
it humane to withhold higher va