Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-20
Illinois State Senators Make
Exhaustive Report on Inyes-
tigation Into White Slave
Conditions
DOMESTIC SERVICE
PARTICULARLY VICIOUS
No Woman in Biz City Should
Be Expected TO Live on Less
Than So a Week Many
Get No More Than So,

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Springfield, H., Jan. l9.-Poverty
| is the principal cnuso Of immortality,
q minimum wage for Girls and wom-
on should be Ss II week and unfcgulat-
ed conditions Of domestic employment
render the home. In many eases, a
/ breeding place OF commerciallzcd vice,
lnccording 10 the Illinois senate white
slave investigation committees report
made public tonight when formally
presented TO the state senate,
That poverty * the principal cause,
direct or Indirect, Of immortality, Is
tho most strongly omphnsizcd finding
Of the commission
Industrial oppression Of the help
loss IL declared by the report to be
directly responsible FOR O large part
Of existing immortality. Thousands Of
girls, II snys, are driven into prostitu-
tion because Of the sheer inability to
keep body and soul together on the
low wages received by them
Domestic Employment System Wrong.
The system Of domestic employment
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terms. "unregulnted conditions of
domestic employment uncertain
hours, absence of definite social stat
MS aud lack of creative opportunities
reader the home, In many cnscs, for
the woman servants. a breeding place
Of immortality says the commissions
report.
Investigations conducted by the
committee. the report says, disclosed
the fact that more women Of the I'M
derworld ran into dishonor from do
nestle employment than from any
other work. OF lSl girls sent to the
state training school at Geneva, Ill,
who had worked for a wage previous
to commitment. tho committee found
that ii6, or 635b per cent had been
engaged In domestic service.
Shuns Housework.
1T Is a peculiarly strong compll-
mont to the sensing faculty Of the fe-
male says the report, "and her IN
ltuitlve avoidance of sexual danger
that the occupation proved by actual
Statistics to be productive Of most
prostitution Is the occupation she
most shuns" In this manner the
committee accounts for constant un-
filled demand for domestcs
Eight dollars Is fixed by the commit
tee as the least amount that Will meet
the necessary items of bare living
for girl employed in large sty.
'rhc report rays wages were found 70
he discouragngiy short OF this fig-
ure, Attention Is called To testimony
taken by the committee, of wages
running az low az 81 week. Of fore
mon who abuse girls In short dresses,
shake thcm untl their arms are
blackoned, ana occasionally hurl boxes
at them, ana Of the manager who
found his factory beseged with agents
Of professional white slavery
The Call Girl" system.
A condition which the report de-
claros strikes directly at the home.
is found in what Is termed tho "call
girl system on this subject the
report says in part
"a detective told of call list
which he had seized in a raid. More
than twenty names We're on the list
first names only being given, then
opposite the telephone numbers. He
checked up the names ana numbers
Some of the women were 'respeeta-
| bie' married women. Two were
Young daughters. Others were work
! ings girls. The ease OF young moth
or serving as call girl and using the
money she made Ia buying ncccss.-
ties fer her baby Is merely illUstra-
/ i've of the character OF some OF the
women in this system
Report Tits high Class Cafes.
High class cafes are hard hit in the
report The conspicuous part played
! by mtoxicants in the undolng OF many
girls Is dismissed as "A matter Of sueh
gcnoral knowledge as 90 require no
elaboration The report says there
can ho NO disbursement as 10 the ef-
fects on the young woman OF the
alternate drinking and dancing. as
lpmcueed in many fashionable restau-
llunts.
The fl,e and EASY manner of in
PRODUCTIONS adds to the danger. Most
fuf the girls who frequent the popular
RESTAURANTS given over To dancing arc
very young.
The commission found that the
highest standard ot morals exists
among the girls in the high schools
coli, ges and universities of the state
As a result of It's investigation the
commission makes numerous rccom'
mcndations.
The report concludes an investiga-
ton that began IN August 1918. and
covered extensive inquiries into con
ditions existing in Chicago, Spring
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