Show MINIMUM 11 M WAGE LAW IN THIS STATE the authorities are enforcing the nine hour a day law especially among the feminine sex twelve thousand working girls in utah about eight thousand of whom 1 arc employed in salt lake city are working worIc lEg less than nine hours a day every one of these girls is being paid at att least 75 cents a day and those having experience in their par line of work are getting or more a day during the last two years more than has been collected in lack back wages from employers who were found to have been paying less than the legal scale to girls there Is no woman sweat shop workers problem in utah the foregoing are some of the salient points regarding the enforcement during the last two years in thia state of the womans comans minimum wage and nine hour labor laws that will be incorporated in the biennial report to governor spry of H T haines commissioner mias ioner of immigration labor and statistics and Commis commissioner hanes will give much of the credit tor for the enforcement of these laws to a woman this woman Is mrs elizabeth nellson nellion deputy state labor commissioner who also enjoys the distinction of helne being the only woman deputy state official in utah when it was decided to a woman in charge of the it personal work connected with en 4 forcing the ceriale tenala labor laws mrs nellson kellson was selected and the last two oars have demonstrated to commissioner sils iloner haines that her appointment was tio lio mir mistake take he says that T tin neilson Ss is the height of py yand and has bbs done yeoman service in him see that women workers ke ae given justice although the department has had nuch tromble fro tible d tiring during the last laet blenne lk uti in enforcing those these laws the aa sailing 11 nonn now pears 2 to be smooth and airs rs nilson neilson said yesterday that aur every employer in the state is now living up to the requirements t she explains that there are dt af course some who have so far evaded the law and the eye ot of the state labor department but she thinks these are scarce mrs neilson Is the utah working r girls friend and many ol of them have come to know it many girls who would hesitate to tell their tro troubles ti blet to a mere man will visit ahe the office to see ee mrs neilson and pour out their grief or when alio visits the place they work will give her information concerning the working conditions hours and pay that a mase alne deputy inspector would not bo be able to learn but when it comes to women employers how bow do you get along urs neilson was asked she he smiled well women employers are a bit different from women workers she t admitted most moat of them would rather talk to a man they believe in their ability to wheedle the men into overlooking things and I 1 guess they think I 1 am a bit nosey as they say that I 1 snoop around a little too much tor for their comfort I 1 am somewhat un poplar with most women employers but on the other hand as they dont like me neither do I 1 care so much tor for them I 1 much prefer talking to men t employers as all that I 1 have met and talked with regarding these laws have treated me with the utmost courtesy the utah female labor laws lawa which Mrs Nellson Neilson Is kept busy enforcing provide regarding salaries that all girls shall ie be paid at least 75 cents a day that girls of more years of age without experience shall get at least 90 cents a day and girls of that age with experience at least 11 2 5 this entirely eliminates the 0 old I 1 d excuse cuse given by many employers ol of girls who were paid scarcely noth bigand many times nothing at all that the girls were receiving recompense la in their apprentice training the nine hour law provides that girls shall not work more than nine hours in any one day or more than fifty tour four hours a week although at first there seemed to bo be morr trouble in enforcing the minimum wage law commissioner hainas says bays that the nine hour law has caused just as much it II not more trouble for him and ahls deputies mont of oe this opposition has come from store employers who object to baving to pay their girl workers the full wase wage and who want them to work eleven or twelve hours the plan of In has been to threaten prosecution unless wages due the birli since the minimum wage law was passed are paid in nine cine cases out of 0 ten this has hat the desired effect and the women get their back pay the employer tears fears to discharge them as he knows the commissioner has his eyes on him and the state to is not put to the expense of a court proceeding in many na ny cases however employers have disregarded warnings and these have been arrested and in most cases convicted and fined mrs nellson neilson says that the only drawback to the present law Is the tact fact that girls are sometimes reluctant to report their employers fearing they will lose their positions she has suggested to commissioner haines that ho he ask tor for an amendment to the law making the employees equally liable with employers for working longer than tho the nine bar hour limit this will probably be abne of mr haines recommendations in his report salt lake evening telegram |