Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-05-24
WORK OF WAITRESS.
BEST PROFESSION
FOR GIRLS
Missouri Senate Wage Com
miiiee Learns That Women
Draw Small Pay and Labor
Long Hours 10 81, Louis,

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ST. Louis. May 23HThat the work
f Of "a waitress IS The best employment
for GIRL that The low wages paid 60
domestic fervants IN the rafnl dis
trlcts Is one reason why country girls
seek employment I'm the city. and that
the girls in steam laundries work in
such intense heat that they often faint
at their work, was testified today be-
fore the Missouri SENATE wage mvcs-
tigming committee.
Tho testimony as 10 the relative
deslrahiity of work in "a restaurant
for woman was given hy girl cm-
pioyod at the Gem restaurant here
SIM said she was paid 81 week. and
that her tips averaged 4 dollar day
She lives with her cousin, who works
az the same restaurant during the
noon lunch hour She pays the cousin
So q week for taking care Of her H.
ycar-old daughter.
~ manage Well She said. ~ stop
and think twice before | buy. 7 work
ten hours a day. our room costs $3.50
q week and It Is good enough for
working girl. ! am In II only at night.
get an my meals at the restaurant
/ manage 10 have q suit for Sunday
and "a suit for work
"My employers treat mo we'll have
little bank account Wuitress work
is the hest there Is for girl II She
has nobody but herself 20 look out
for"
A frail little girl. who looked so
thin that state Senator Kinney asked
hcr NJ shc had been sick. testified that
She worked nj Penny & Geniles' store
for fs week. an of which she pays
To- an aunt for board a if-yoar-ald /
Girl said She went to work at the
same store recently. for $3.50 a week
a girl "a years Old buyer for the
fancy goods ana pattern department
at Penny d Gentos. said she gets $40
@ week and that the average wage Of
the sales girls there is SO.
A girl employed at Nugents de- &
pariment store. testified that she gets
s6 n week salary and commission that
Increases ner earnings almost to SIS
q week when in recently. she paid
So week for q room i'm a hospital
She received no salary during her i'll
ness. hut drew $40 from a beneficial
lid organization IN the store. to which
She contributed 20 cents week.
A waitress who makes 81 "a week
from a. M. to p. m.
Vas asked n She ever went 90 the
PARKS on Sunday.
~ do il someone takes me, she re-
piled. fNot on my own money ]
can't afford it. I'm lucky if ! have
EAR fare to 80 70 work"
Another girl testified that She lives
eith her brother and Kept house fof
him. Her wages at the laundry are So
/ week II she works fun time, 7.30
l. m.. a. 8 y. m. six days a week. but
only $3.50 il she loses time through
sickness. She said she walks TO work
because she is unable 10 paw her ear
fare. She said that she and other girls
Had tainted from the oppressive heat.
Girls employed at the American and
s0ftsess laundry testified that theY
we're paid from SIS to So week for
line house WORK day Many of The
.irls faint from heat they say, and
laye 20 bc sent home
An tS-year-old girl from the Hes
en- Envelope company testified that
he makes $3.50 week Tho girls
hose fingers are crushed in the EN-
elope machines, she said, are sent
@ the city dispenslry for treatment
expressed the opinion
hat the company should pay for such
featment and not depend on the city
o take care Of lbs injured employees.
An lS-year-oid girl employed at the
amuel Cupples Envelope company }
aid that she is q widow and has a 4
hild 90 support on her wages of So 1
week She lives with her mother. t
sho has two other children The ,
mother takes in washing and works 4
at several DAYS week. and together d
hey manage 10 get along
Hotel Denver. Rooms. So week up. :