New Britain herald., 1930-02-21

Mrs. Annie Corcoran and Mrs. l Annie Mcintyre were the two who refused an offer to remain at Har- ward as substitute chambermaids in | the dormitories.
 1 q knew I couldn't make any, thing there" said Mrs. Corcoran. | She worked II years in the library, but still was one of the younger women. At least her bright blue 1 eyes are young, and her tiny body 1 radates vitality. She lives with her grown son, and keeps the house as neat as a pin.
 "I work around at students apartments now" she said. I'm not doing bad, but there's some that's awful needy. Mrs. Mary i Farrell, for instance, and Mrs. l Mooney I guess Mrs. Mooney was | the oldest woman there. and a i good worker, too. And there's Mrs. Mary Brady, with her invalid hus- ! band and all. She needs help bad.
 "None of those women was offer ed any work, and I don't care what ! the college says. Our hours was 6 | to II in the morning, and sometimes till noon. Nobody could do the work from 6 10 9, like they say We did. And we didn't get paid for a single | hour we didn't work, either. I know; once I was sick for six weeks"
 President Lowell, in a letter to the Rev. Duvall, had said: T find | that the minimum wage board has been complaining of our employing women for these purposes at less than 37 cents an hour, and hence the university has felt constrained to replace them with men,
 But Arthur L. Endicott, comp troller of Harvard, contradicted this: Tt was not at all a question of wages. It was a question of fol- lowing the policy which we had i found {. to be economical and efflcent'
 Endicott. tall, austere, coolly dignfied, has had previous experi- ence in business management. Tt is not customary in industry, I be- leve," he said, Ito pay employees hired by the hour for time when they are out sick or on vacations. In the case of the women, we have done both.'
 Seven former scrubwomen whC had lost time through illness in- dignantly assured this correspondent that they had not been paid.
 bn ba Nersity was but a small part of their income" Endicott stated cmphati- cally. Tho scrubwomen. he declared worked only from to a. m.
 But the women agreed that theil hours had been from to l a. m. that they often worked until noon and that they were glad to do SC because only three or four of then had any sort of regular outside work.
 The comptroller said the scrub. women had been discharged be. cause Of ineficiency. Then he de. clarcd that all but two of these al. legedly incompetent workers haC been offered work in the dormi. tories, although he admitted tho amount and nature of the work was practically the same.
 Refused Other Work
 Fourteen Of the women deniet that any other work had beer available
 "Offcr me another job?" asked Margaret O'Connors. T should sa, not. ] was with 'em 13 years, ant the Saturday before Christmas I get notice l still haven't got q job"
 Catherine Lovett didn't get z chance at dormtory work, and nov she doesn't want it. T was brett! worried for a while" she said. q thought maybe I could 90 to thu dormitorics. though they only pa, 9 cents. But now I'm glad I didn't because I've got another cleanins job that pays 50 cents and it ism any harder either"
 Bitter criticism has come to tn university, which underpaid it's nor, menial employees, yet provided n' system of compensation for thos faithful ones grown old in its serv ice.
 Gardner Jackson, Boston's dis tinguishcd young author-libera who was the first to direct the spot light of public attention on tn ; "scrubwomau scandal" has investl stacd and personally aided some o the cases.
 Said he: Harvard men should b troubled by the attitude underlyin the casting out of these women. : university as rich and powerful a Harvard does not cvade a law fo nine years without knowing it. Tn lesson is one in attitudes, and tn : Harvard official attitude is one o sclf-rightcousneSs and infallibiltA It is a relic Of the feudal era an
 has no place in modern America. V CIGAR LIGHTER CAUSES FIRE : Lowell, Mass. Feb. T (CP) - to ln