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Show Board Recommends Minimum Wage of $16 for Women SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 1 (U.R) The Retail Trades Wage board, advisory body to the state industrial indus-trial commission in fixing minimum mini-mum wages and maximum hours for minor and women employes, today recommended a minimum $16 weekly wage for women employed em-ployed in retail industry in Utah. Vote for the recommendation was 4 to 3. The board found the average wage paid sucn workers is $14 weekly, in a survey just completed. com-pleted. 42-Hour Week The commission intends to hold a public hearing after publication pub-lication of the complete wage board report, which also recommended recom-mended a 42-hour week and seven-hour seven-hour clay. Following the hearing, a wage and hour scale will be set up by the industrial commission commis-sion under an old Utah wage and hour law. The law has been unenforced for several years because successive suc-cessive legislatures have Jieg-lected Jieg-lected to appropriate money for its enforcement. The 1937 legislature legis-lature was the first to designate such funds. Three minority members of the wage board dissented from the $16 weekly wage recommendation. recommenda-tion. They were Ray H. Butler, manager of the State Retailers' association; Gomer Peacock and John Nelson, employer representatives. represen-tatives. The majority vote was cast by William M. Knerr, industrial commission chairman; Mrs. R. F. Priest, Mrs. R. B. Peck, and Mrs. Lillie Riggs, representatives of. employes. SALT LAKE CITYY, Sept. 1 U.K The average retail store woman wo-man employe needs $456 a year for board and room and only $56.55 for her beauty upkeep, the state retail trades wage board estimated es-timated today. For clothing, the shop girl should have $109.50 yearly. Her government Social Security payment, "painlessly" extracted from the paycheck, costs her $17.30 per year. Permanent waves account for the largest beauty outlay, costing the girl $10 a year. |