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Show UTAH'S WOMEN TOP NATION'S VAGLAVERAGE Data Collected by U., S. and State Survey, : Show Status Tha average woman In Utah In-duetry. In-duetry. ao far aa "real wages" are concerned, appears to ba better off than her alster In other, states, a seven-week federal-state survey Indicated In-dicated Saturday. Moreover, ahe appeared to ba In Una for a pay Increase of from 20 to as per cent. If experience In other states resulting from surveys holds for Utah. The Utah survey waa complete and the director, Miss Ethel Erick-son Erick-son of the women's division of the federal department of labor, waa en routa to Washington, D. C, Saturday. Sat-urday. . Sent to Washington Alas en routa to tha national capital capi-tal waa tha last of data compiled during the survey, which will be canned and approved by tha women's wo-men's division and returned to the Utah Industrial commission for use in setting up minimum wages for women. Miss Erlckson said that while the data from tha survey are confidential, confiden-tial, "weighing" of wages in regard to living coats would Indicate that women wo-men in Utah are paid on the average aver-age mora "real wages" than received re-ceived on the average throughout the Union. This, she pointed out doea not hold for every employer, aa soma paying low wages drag down tha average of others paying higher.- She said also that aha found a spirit of cooperation among employers, employ-ers, a tendency to pay comparatively high wagea and a disposition to require re-quire low-pay employers to improve their standards. Women's Chief Here Mrs. Louise Stltt, head of tha women's wo-men's division of tha department of labor, who also waa in Utah for the survey, said that experience in other states haa been that establishment of minimum pay scales for women resulted in increaaea of from 14 to K per cent After tha data are returned to the industrial commission, 'minimum wage boards will have been aet up for branches of Industry, which then will fix scales to insure a living wage to women. Aasisting Miss Erlckson In the survey were Mrs. Lottie Shupa, in charge of tha women's division of ths stata industrial commission; her assistant Mra. Jeanetto Garner, and Miss Elizabeth Dern, of tha federal department of labor. |