Evening star., 1943-07-01
Luxury Services Here
Already Discontinued, {,
laundfies Tell VINO
Continued From First Page

cept in extenuating circumstances"
Eliminate all special pick-ups and
deliveries except to hospitals and
the armed forces and except In
emergencies where such service
might be necessary for protection Of
the public health, life and safety"
70 Per Cent Fewer Trucks.
(Mr. Walker said some routes had
been consolidated and some laun-
dries have 10 per cent fewer trucks
on the streets than they had a year
ago. As for special pickups and call
backs. laundries haven't been giving
this special service for a year, he
said)
3. Accept but not solicit new ac-
counts and work with other laundries
to reduce overlapping territories to
minimum by inter-changing Gus
toners.
Naundries not only are not solicit
ing new customers but are not TAX
ing any new customers and three
laundries cannot even take care Of
their old customers this week, Mr..
Walker said. They can't inter-
change customers because many of
them can't give service to the ones
they've got)
4. Extend hours OF operation or
institute a multiple shift OF workers
wherever feasible to get the most
use cut Of present equipment.
Fourth Of Machines Idle,
about Is per cent Of the ma
chinery, Mr.. Walker said. now stands
idle. The laundries can't even staff
their plants for one Shift
S.. Eliminate hand ironing or fin-
ishing OF any garment II mechanical
facilities are available.
(Mr. Walker said this had been
done except in the case of children's
dresses and similar garments which
can be done more quickly by handD
6. Eliminate all fancy wrapping
and packaging. provide only stand
ard folding of finished fiat work,
and discontinue folding OF any por-
ton OF damp or wet wash bundles.
Fancy wrapping, Mr. Walker said,
had long since been eliminated but
wet wash is shaken out and folded
at the plants because the laundries
have the facilities and 1t would be
difficult for housewives to unite the
knots in wet wash as 1t comes from
the machines. Mr.. Walker said it
was also easier to handle wet wash
when 1t was folded.
Elimination Of Starch.
7. Eliminate all starching or sizing
of fiat work and limit customers to
one grade In the starching OF shirts
and other wearing apparel, discon-
tinuing the light" or heavy"
starching sometimes requested.
CMr. Walker said some OF the
laundries are still using shirt boards
and starch, but these probably will
go soon as materials run out.
Starching. he said, keeps the shirts
in better shape particularly with the
ban on protective packaging but. he
added. III that's what they want
ELL do it!")
8. Cooperate in requests TO hotels.
boarding and lodging houses to
change bed linen no more often
than once week for any one guest -
and limit guests to one face towel
and one bath towel a day.
9. Request restaurants and other
eating establishments to use "an
average OF no more than one table,
cloth per day per meal period"
Presorting Request.
10. Request all customers to re
duce the use of articles that require
laundering. discontinue sending
small pieces which can easily be
done at home" and do their own pre-
sorting and segregating OF laundry
bundles.
Mr.. Walker said the laundries
were a service industry and accepted
the work as 1t was sent. He said he
thought 1t was up to the Govern
ment to urge hotel. restaurant and
household cooperation rather than
up to the laundries.
On the standards as a whole, he
said. the laundries had gone much
further than had been required. had
cut out a number of the services not
listed and hadn't been doing any
"superfluous" work for months.