The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-08

The committee and particularly Senato~ Juul, insisted that the other members of a working girls home earn on more than enough to support themselves even if they do cooper | ate, and that if each individual oi such q family. or only one of such a family. earned less than a living wage the whole family suffered, and the employer paying wages too low. was shirking his responsibility. Mandel and Rosenwald expressed the opinion that girls character and her environment and they laid stress on the latter shaped her life. Wages have little to do with It.
 But doesn't living wage, or a wage under that, have much to do with the environments? ?'' inquired Lieut.. Gov O'flara. chairman of the committee This was admitted.
 If a girl cannot live on her ii1- come, don't you think that, with the pitfalls which surround young wo- man, an immoral life offers the cas- fest way out?" Mandel was asked
 Not if she is the right kind of a girl; if she Is starving and immoral fly is repugnant to her, as it should be. she can go into domestic service.
 What" exclaimed Senator JuulJ do you think there are enough places for domestics to take care of al the underpaid girls and women working in stores and factories?"
 House servants are mighty scarce, . smiled the witness and as both Jnul ard Mandel had raised their voices, the spectators heard it and Uttered. It was one of the very few things they did hear.
 Mandel expressed the opinion that $500 is a living wage for girl de- pAndent upon herself alone, whereat Juul, handed him a pencil and papes and insisted that he go into detail on the matter.
 How much for clothine?" insisted the Legislator. and the witness hesi- tated, two dolars?P
 No: l should say thas one dollar week would be enough" was the reply.
 Alright; one dollar, Put it down" 1" said the questioner Now lannd-yg"
 But these girls live at home, their laundry is done there,' said the will ness
 Hut suppose she doesnt?" pursued Senator Juul How much?"
 Say twenty-five cents, then"
 In this way they went down the iist-board and room, s4.00 sickness, sixty cents; lnnehes, seventy cents: car fare sixty cents and church, as suming that the girls contribute when the collection box is passed, ten cents
 Well that makes s755," said Sena- tor Iitl, who had added the colum wrong. And that doesn't include railway fare, theatres. probably only about half of girls necessary ex- penses.
 MT Simpson had come prepared with figures, which showed, among other things. that the Marshall Fielc store employs 4.222 female clerks, whose average wage is s1076.
 Of these, 44O are short hour em- ployes, who work during the sushes and while the regular clerks are at lunch. All live at home, he said It developed that the short nons employees are paid on a basis of sf week, so that a clerk working only four hours day would receive only $4.
 This latter class Is composed most. " Of married women. who wish to earn a bit of pin money and of stu |tdents who do not depend upon us for n living" explained Simpson.
 Senator Juul would not have it that way. insisting that if the girls and women worked. they should receive m income from their lahors to live on and when the witness was excused