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Show Business Women's Club Balks At Minimum Pay in Industry I Opposition to any minimum wage being aet for women employed In Utah Industry waa expressed by ths Business and Professional Women's club at the capltol Saturday, when hearing waa resumed on a recommended recom-mended minimum of tl for women and minora working la retail trades. Mrs. Winifred P. Ralls, president of the club, said the organisation opposed a minimum wage for women wom-en on the grounds that it would be discriminatory if none la aet for men also. Charles D. Moore, attorney for ths Wslgreen company, opposed a wage board recommendation that employers be required to give a week'a discharge notice to workers fired for reasons other than dishonesty. Ths consumers' sids of the question ques-tion waa presented by Ray H. Butler, But-ler, secretary of the Utah Slate Retailers' Re-tailers' association, who said a minimum mini-mum wags set for retell trsdes "will serve aa a basis of minimum wages for other groups." "It Is logical to assume ths wage set for all women employes In the suts will not be lower than the wages set here," he said. "Ths consumers are alowly but surely becoming swsrs of effects upon them. How many families of our state can employ domestic help at tha rata of (16 for a 42-hour week? How many of the ladies that havs appeared here at the hearing are paying domestic help 16 a week?" Mr. Butler read a letter from the Cedar City Retailers' association, which said that group was "amaxsd to find" at ths October 4 wags hearing hear-ing that "most of ths proponents were not the employes, but organised organ-ised labor, or, rather, labor organisers, organ-isers, and certain leglalatora who enjoy ths reputation In thla state of being professional agitators." "Employes in this state have simple-mindedly Imagined they had contributed something to general welfare In the past, but they found themselves accused categorically of being chlselers, dishonest exploiters, armed forces marching to destroy the home," the letter said. The letter warned that If the commission, com-mission, in setting a wags, "creates a condition that we cannot meet," the Cedar City Retailers' association will, "if necessary, seek Injunctions In ths courts." |