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Show WILL INVESTIGATE WAGES PAID GIRLS Complrint Is Made That Injured Employee Em-ployee Gets Better Pay "While at j Home Than at Work. I i A company whose name i.a withheld ha.. through an insurance company, complained com-plained that it has had to pay more to a girl per week while she Is at home suffering from an injury than when she iw at work. Tn the language of the state industrial commission, the company "lias drawn down the coals upon its own head." The insurance company said that the girl was between ltl and IS years of ape. She was receiving a wage of ot cents a day. Under the provisions of the workmen's compensation compen-sation act there is a minimum compensation compen-sation payable of ?7 a week. The insurance insur-ance companv protested against the pay- ment of this sum. hut the commission will j advise that, since it is the law. it must I be respected. Incidentally, the commission proposes to 1 investigate the payment of only $3 a week wages to the girl. The state law provides I that the minimum wage to be paid to a '. girl of her age shall be $4 50 a week. The commission will send a man to examine t lie company's payroll and will order that ; the girl in question be paid 2S cents extra ' a day since she started work. It was ! stn ted that the commission will make a ! similar order in all other cases of a similar i nature that might be discovered in the i Investigation. |