The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-25
Industrial Court Decides
Clothing Budget of S8Z.5O
Is Not Enough forP. W. @.
Tentative Order Directs Averae Increase of 176 Per
Cent in Minimum Wages for Girls and Women in Many
Occupations in Kansas-FinaI Hearings New Award
To Be Held Here May 9.

The tentative order will be contested
by the employees. These hearing will
begin in Topeka, May Q. The court
in its findings made numerous sug-
gestions as to regulations affecting
employees in various classes of employ
ment A summary of these recon-
mendations follows:
Laundry Employees
No woman or minor employe shall
work more than nine hours a day or
forty-nine and one-half hours a week
the nine hours employment shall be
within ten consecutive hours, except in
emergencies; the employe shall not
work longer than six hours without
relief for meals; worker may be em-
ployed for not more than two and
one-half hours overtime, for which he
shall receive time and one-half pay;
lunch relief one hour; minimum wage,
S11 weekly: apprenticeship, six
months, for the first three months OF
which the minimum wage shall be
$50 per week, and the second three
months, SO: the laundry must pay the
employe the full minimum wage,
when full weeks work is not fur
nished.
Manufacturing Employees.
Nine hours shall constitute maxi
mum days work, and forty-nine and
one-half hours, A normal week S
work; employees should work not more
than eight hours without relief; meal
relief not less than 45 minutes; wp-
men and minors shall not be employed
after 9 o'clock at night. or before 6
O'Clock in the morning; overtime work
shall not be permitted, except in
emergencies, and then time and one
half shall be paid to employe; miAi-
mum wage, $11 weekly; apprentices,
first three months, minimum wage of
$3.50; second three months, $500:
wage on piece rates shall be not less
than minimum wage for fun time
worker.
Mercantile Employees.
Worker cannot be employed for
more than ten consecutive hours, and
of the ten hours; employe shall not
work later than 8 o'clock at night; I;
shall not work longer than five hours
without relief; minimum wage, $40. so
per week; apprenticeship shall last
one year; for first two months, ap-
prentice shall receive not less than
$3.50 a week. not less than $500 for
next four months. and not less than
SO for last six months; not more than
20 per cent of minors and appren-
tices shall be allowed in any one es-
tablishment.
Housekeeping Employees.
Includes Mattresses In restaurants,
hotels, boarding houses, ice cream
parlors, ETC.; employment for not
more than eight hours a day nor more
than forty eight hours week; nor
before a. m. nor after midnight; pc
riod of employment may be divided
into three shifts, covering not more
than fourteen hours; not longer than
five hours without relief; employe
shall have one full day of rest in ev-
cry seven days. unless employed less
than thirty-fiye hours per week.
In submitting his recommendations
to the court, Judge McDermott stated
that the suggestions were based on
the findings of the court at the pub
lie hearings h ID thruout the state.
and on the recommendations of the
women's division of the court, thru
Miss Alice K. McFa rland, director.
McDermott stated that the wage scale
suggested by him is somewhat lower
than recommended by Miss McFar-
land, but that his findings take into
account the fact that the order cannot
go into effect for sixty days and the
declining costs of living