The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-19
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REPLIES TO MCDONALD

Editor Tribune:
| sometimes wonder if those who
have the opportunity to enforce laws
-- having formerly occupied some
job as mcnial-are able to be broad
enough in their ideas to concoct a
sauce for the gandcr as well as the
goose, or observe the golden rule 10
do unto the other as he would be
done by. Certainly S. S. Mcdonald is
only those he does not like, and will
apparently go any length to carry
out his venom.
Mcdonald states my telephone
girls and my girls in the cafeteria
have worked 800 days without day
off. l have not girl in either place
who have been in my employ that
long, and none of them have work
ed over seven hours day. and if
the time is considered that is taken
M by his spies. and Investigators in
intcrrogating my girls in working
hours, when they are supposed 20
work. trying to find out what food
they eat, what clothes they wear and
the amount of salary they receive, it
reduces the time they are employed
rnsiderably. While he has been
snooping> around my business he
was deliberately ovcrworking the
girls that he employs. Everyone
knows that Mcdonald has made the
attempt to single me out as the one
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girls over eight hours day and at
less wage than the law designates
as them inimum wage.
This is the third time he has had
me arrested and twice | have been
discharged. This time he wanted to
do it wholesale and attempted to
have issued warrants against me and
attempted to have the same ten war
rants issued against Mrs. Patterson.
The states attorney refused to en-.
dorse any warrant for the arrest Of
Mrs. Patterson and approved only
three warrants, one covering the
telephone girls and one the cafe
terra girls, alleging too long hours,
and one covering the dining room
girls, alleging their wages as less
than minimum wage permitted. The
remuneration received by the dining
room girls is much in excess of the
minimum wage permitted and Nc.
Donald we'll knows that the business
conducted is mine and not that Of
Mrs. Patterson, sand that if any one
is to blame it is myself and not my
wife. Mcdonald we'll knows that.
Regarding tips to my dining room,
girls. if Mr.. Mcdonald can devise 4
system whereby the custom of tips
may be avoided, the world will be
grateful to him, and l promise the
world in that event to pay the maxi
mum wage in the State of North Da-
| kota. do not receive the tips given
the girls and they now receive a
wage remuneration much greater
than the minimum made by Mr. Nc
Donald's Bureau.
Mr.. Mcdonald infers there was no
offensc at the Frazier banquet, nor
at any banquet he may attend or be
| instrumental in giving. He knows
better. 1t is impossible to give a
banquet by any hotel without hav-
| ing the Mattresses who attend, not
work overtime. Either the law must
be changed in North Dakota or ban
quets cannot be given. Another ex-
ample Of what is sauce for the
goose is NOT sauce for the gander
Last Saturday the state worked its
two female members overtime from
10 a. m. to II p. M. They did this,
no doubt, voluntarily, but so do the
girls who work voluntarily in the
hotels and restaurants who do any
overtime service. am not aware
! that any girl has gone to Mr.. Nc
Donald to complain but he diligent-
ly snoops with his spies and nves-
tigators to ascertain the exact hours
put in by my girls, and forgets to
put his own house in order. None of
| my help to date has tainted away
| from a nervous breakdown from ov-
erwork as has happened under Nc.
Donald in the Workmen's Compensa-
! ton Bureau. He says he had no ste.
nographer in the Compensation Blu.
rcau work overtime. 1t may be so
| The employee who tainted from
overwork under him, it is true, was
a boOkkeeper, but she was female
and according to her statements
Mcdonald hired her, placed her at
work, and when she asked for extra