The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-06
the clerks who started as boy at 50
week recently got raise to $4,000 a
year and $4,000 a year bonus, he

the clerks who started as boy at 50
a week recently got raise to $4,000
year and $4,000 a year bonus, he
said
He justified the wages paid by Mar
shall Field and Company as average
liberal by quoting government statis-
tics to the effect that Go percent of
the families of the United States
average an income of 5000 a year or
less.
Neither Simpson nor Edward Hill
mans big department store, would
venture an opinion as to the relative
vaiue of men and women as clerks.
They merely smiled at the commits
sion's question.
Hillman said that AT men in his
employ are paid an average wage Of
$14.4S a week. Boys get So week.
In response to a question put by one
of the senators, Hillman said he
thought $12 week inadequate to
support family of three, including a
daughter of sixteen years.
1t would be very hard to live on
that was his comment
One of the sensations OF the session
was the statement Of David R. For
gan. president of the National City
bank and one of the leading figures in
western financial circles.
Forgan was telling about the SAL
aries paid his bank employees Clerks,
he said, we're paid from $50 month
to $4,000 year but many clerks in
/. banking institutions all over the coun-
try have been displaced by adding
machines.
DO any of the married men in
your bank earn less than $1,000 a
year?. he was asked.
mo sir. we don't let them," came
the reply.
Don't let them?" asked one Of the
senators, What do you mean?"
Just that" replied the banker, "a
clerk in bank must dress better
than working man and cannot main
tain himself properly on less than ST.
600 year. We do not allow men in
our employ earning less than $1,000 q
year to marry unless they first get
the consent Of the officers of the
bank"
| Later Forgan explained that this
rule had been adopted by the men
| themselves and was one of the rules
of their pension organization"
| Forgan believed that while work
ling man might marry on less than
| the wage paid bank clerk, no mar
ried bank clerk could dress properly
and keep up appearances of prosper
ity ii he earned less than 1888 a
month.
4 julius Rosenwald, multi-millionaire
philanthropist and head Of Sears-Roe.
buck and Company who testified as to
wages paid girl employees several
weeks ago, took the stand again TO.
day.
His concern employs Ali adult
males, he said and 1888 under 81
years Of age. The average wage OF
/ the minors Is 1871 week, he said
10 married man In his employ earns
less than s12 week The married
man who cannot qualify for a s12 a
week job was useless. he said. Rosen
wa,d refused to expires an opinion as
to the advisability of fixing minimum
wages with reference to the size OF
families. In his own company. the
number Of children In the family of a
married employe Is not taken into
consideration, he said
His refusal to express such an
opinion started tilt with members
of the commission. Senator Wood
ward struck heat when he asked the
paid detectives to shadow members OF
the vice investigating commission.
THAT Is an absolute untruth," said
Rosenwald rising in his chair
i There was an uncomfortable pause