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Show BOARD INCREASES WAGES FOR CAFE WORKERS The state industrial commission Monday ordered an increase of from $1 to $2 in the minimum weekly wage for women and minors min-ors employed in Utah's restaurants. restau-rants. ' The increases were $2 under those recommended to the commission com-mission by an employer-employee wage board and which were attacked at-tacked by representatives of restaurant res-taurant owners at a public hearing hear-ing last week. E. M. Royle, commission chairman, chair-man, said the commission took into in-to account in setting new mini-mums mini-mums the practice of management in serving employes one or two meals per. working day and in the amount of money received weekly in tips. New minimum wage scales per 48-hour week are: Salt Lake City and Ogden, $21 (up $l);Provo, Helper, Price, Logan, Murray and Tooele, $20 (up $1); Bingham, Brigham City, Eureka, Midvale, and Park City, $19 (up $1); American Fork, Bountiful, Cedar City, Lehi, Payson, Richfield, Smithfield, Spanish Fork, Springville, Spring-ville, St. George, Nephi, Vernal, $19 (up $2), and in all other towns with 5000 population or less, $19 (up $2.)' |