The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-01

without food or lodging; in strange
city with no friends; and remember
ing well the condescension, the hours,
the mere pittance for pay, Frances
and Louise have learned their lesson
we'll.
"I hate doing this, girls, hate do
ing this as much as you hate to hear
it," explained Mrs. Norman Thomas,
socialist, to Misses Frances and Lou
Use Dunlap, workers.
"She hated doing it. Yeah! A lot
she's interested in U.s." bitterly spoke
up Frances Dunlap, a fine looking,
gray-eyed American girl. IL started
working for Mrs. Thomas one year
ago this month. I came all the way
from Erie, Pa, where my father has
farm. Several months later she
hired my sister. She also had to leave
home, my parents weren't making
out at all, and they couldn't support
us"
Frances had socialistic ideals at the
time. Isn't it wonderful working for
MRS. Thomas I felt" A look of Bit
terness and amusement filled Fran
ces' face. 81 felt that it was such a
grand ideal working for a socialist.
It made me work harder, and be more
conscientious" Frances mouth tight
ened into a straight line. "But was
soon disillusioned."
Disillusioned because of treatment
Disillusioned because of hours, and
wages why, she didn't even want
us to belong to union" said Louise,
the younger sister. eff you belong
to union you'll get less wages she
would say T am now paying you
more than the union requires We
we're then getting IS a week"
Disillusioned to the extent that on
the day they were canned" both
Frances and Louise formed a
committee of two to tell Gus
toners of the exclusive tea room
that they had been fired. Many of
the clientele refused to enter the So
cialist tea room in protest,
FRANCES THOMAS, daughter Of
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Thomas, also
worked in the tea room at II Irving
Pl To show the spirit of democracy
that pervaded the tea room, her
daughter. just as the other girls,
would be called to pep rallies every
several weeks. Here, Mrs. Thomas
would smile benignly on them all,
and repeat lovingly: Il like you girls
as much as my daughter"
Her daughter is now away from
home, we'll cared for. Another daugh-
ter made her debut into society last
year with a great deal of show and
publicity. Her engagement to
wealthy young military man was re-
Gently announced. The two girls for
whom Mrs. Thomas cared as much
as for her own daughter we're fired
this week and are facing the winter.
in a strange city, hundreds Of miles
away from home, without jobs, and
without money to even get back
home.
Even if don't make any money
I like to feel as though I've been
keeping you girls through the win
ter" Words to the girls with the same
loving, Thonlasonian smile.
"She gave my sister and me no de-
cent living. We worked hard for the
$40 or so that we got We did things
that no professional waitress would
do. Aside from setting and serving
tables, we had to write the menus
and set up the garden, and wipe the
tables and fix the flowers" indig-
narftly exclaimed Louise Dunlap
with real working class rage and re-
sentiment to the hypocritical patron
age Of these Well-known Socialists
The chief crime of Louise and
Frances Dunlap was this independ-
ence. They refused to submit meekly
and kowtow before the benign smiles
of the grand lady," and the orders
of the tea room manager.
WHEN Louise and Frances started
W to work for Mrs. Thomas, she put
them on weekly wage of S. Tips