El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-02
NEW law DOES NOT
AFFECT THE MOVIES
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to the 81 hour law. and in order to do
this, extra help viii be necessary. This
viii be the same plan used in the other
ice cream parlors- Whether the in
creased expense viii make the prOprl-
etors think it necessary to cut the
girls. wages or not has not yet been
decided
The Exchange" restaurant manager
says they may have TO go out of busi-
ness if the law is enforced As it
would mean doubling the working force
and that would make the expenses too
heavy to yield any profit
The Harvey House, where "a women
are employed, viii have to add addi-
tional help, and work the girls in ga
hour shifts
The Pullman cafeteria will meet the
situation by giving its employees longer
hours off duty.
A. Matthias, wholesale house, has
maintained the nine hour law for all
Of its employees for some time, and as
il is not open on Saturday nights will
have TO make no change in the hours
While Feldman's shop is open at
night on Saturdays, it has never been
the custom at this store to work its
women employees at night, so they viii
not be affected
The Kohlberg Bros. cigar factory
on South Fl Paso street, where about
p women are employed, in stripping
tobacco, making boxes and making
cigars, viii not be affected by the
law, as all of this work. is paid by
the piece, and the women work such
hours as they please
Does Not Affect Movies
All of the moving picture theaters
work two shifts of girls, averaging
from five to seven hours a shift so the
law viii not affect them.
In the business firms where the only
woman employed is the cashier Or
bOOkkeeper, il is said, her hours will
simply be shortened to conform with
the laws requirements.
With the Laundry Workers.
OF the laundries the FL PasO laundry
will stop work an hour earlier, work
ing the girls the hours from 1880 to
5-3e, with an hour at noon The Elite
laundry viii begin an hour later, work
ing their women force from to s
o'clock now instead of to g. There will
be no change at the American laundry,
as the women seldom worked over "a
hours before. The women do not go
TO work at this laundry until Monday
noon, and have Saturday afternoon off,
SO they viii not be affected by the new
law The Alamo laundry will let its
women employees off earlier in the af
ternoOn, their hours being now from Z
10 5 o'clock
Has But One Woman.
At the Pearson plant but one woman
is employed in the office and she has
been working but eight hours a day.
At various times the milling company
has employed numbers of Mexican
women doing piece work, but there
are none Of these at the present time.
The law viii not affect the nurses
in the hospital training schools, as
they are students, the. same as IN any
other institutions of instruction
Graduate trained nurses, being pro-
fessiOnal women, do not think they
come under this law
The law is fiat, absolutely. allowing
no overtime work for the empIoye,
whether willing to work or not, and
the employer is subject to fine for
any overtime work, except for stem
Ographers and telephone and telegraph
operators.
This law does not apply TO trained
nurses or domestic servants, for neither
are specified in the wording of the law.