Show THE SHOP GIRLS OF PARIS their condition described as one of great hardship the new order of things in france which is to emancipate the workers ana and free everybody from everything including in one conspicuous case caise even work is apparently for men only the chamber of deputies recently reused refused practically to extend to women wor workers the law for the regulation of the conditions of work in workshops disguising guising the refusal under the form of an a adjournment of the matter on the pretext that the grievances of the women are not yet ripe for discussion of course women have no votes the shop girls of paris held a meeting g at the bourse du travail recently to protest against the action of the chamber the condition of the paris shop girls is described as one of if great hardship they have to be in the shop from thirteen to fourteen hours a day receive very small pay and are expected to dress well at some few 15 tores stores as the bon marche their circumstances are arc more pleasant but in general the girle in the great stores have a hard time they are compelled to stand all the th time they are at work and the air 0 the stores is far from exhilarating skilled work girls in prance france say the new york sun are much better off than those in stores Stati statistics statistic sti es presented dented at the congress femi neste bj ame mme vincent a few days ago chov that out of artisans in france there are women ohp receive in wages or dividends nearly a year they of course receive much less in proportion to the work they do than tham the men but notwithstanding ilas this fe ft ct they draw thirty five percent per cent of the entire sum spent in wages isparis in paris there are women doing business on an independent footing and of suits judged last year by the coun cound il of 1674 concerned |