Show LOW WAGES AND VICE 1 AMONG WOMEN CONSIDERED Temptations and Allurements Allurements Allurements Allure Allure- ments of City Are Outlined Outlined Out Out- lined in Brief to Supreme Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme Court B By GILSON GARDNER WASHINGTON Jan 25 Sales Sales Saleswomen women in retail department stores carnon earn carn earnon earnon on the a average 86 per por week and workers in garment arment factories earn carn on the tho average 1392 per week These are tho the tho figures contained in the bulletin just issued issued by the bureau of labor and statistics sta based 1 on a comprehensive survey survey sur sur- sur vey ey recently completed by y the bureau The r results uIt of the investigation show that a approximately approximate half o of tho the women and girls in stores receive less than 7 per week while in the garment industry industry industry indus indus- try nearly Dearly 53 per cent of tho the factory women receive less than 7 p per r week In large largo cities the average is is probably lower than in in the tho smaller towns The Tho relation of these low wages wates to totne the ability of ot a girl irl to live a moral life has recently Uy been made mado the subject of an interesting presentation to the United States supreme court in the brief briel filed sled in the tho Oregon minimum wage case prepared bv by Louis D D. D Brandeis and J Josephine Jo o. o sep ine Goldmark In tb that t brief which the court now has under consideration its attention is called to the following findings of the so called vice commission commission commission commis commis- sion of Chicago o which made a 3 careful study of the whole question Hundreds if hot thousands of girls from country towns and those e born in inthe in inthe inthe the city but who have hav been thrown on an their own resources are compelled to live in cheap boarding or rooming houses on the tho average wage of 6 How do they exist on this sum 7 It is impossible to figure f r uro it out on a mathematical basis If tho the wage age wore 8 per pcr week weck and the girl cirl paid 25 for her room 1 for laundry and 60 cents for car fare she could have nave less than 50 cents left at atthe tho the end of the week That is provided she ate ato cent 10 breakfasts 15 cent 15 cent luncheons and cent 25 dinners There is no doubt that many girls do live on even 6 and do it honestly but we wo can affirm that they do o not have havo nourishing food or comfortable shelter or warm clothes or any any- amusement except except ex ox- perhaps free freo public dances without with without out lout outside help belp either from from charity charity in inthe inthe the shape of girls girls' uIs' uIs clubs or friends in tho country home borne Is it any wonder that a tempted I girl who receives only 6 per week working with her hands bands sells lens her body for 2 25 per week when she learns there is is a demand for it and men aro are willing imn to pay tho price In tho the sad life of prostitution on the other hand we wo find that the tho employer d demanding the surrender surrender sur sur- render of her berc virtue pays pa her hern an n average aver average aver aver- age of 25 per week Which mich employer wins the half starved child to his sl side e ein in in this unequal battle II Prostitution demands youth for or its perpetuation On the public rests the mighty responsibility of seeing ein to it that I that the tie demand is n not t supplied through tho the breaking down of the early tion of the Youn young girl rl or her exploitation tion iu in the business world What sho show has she sho in the competitive system which exists today Whatever her chances may mav be bt to stand or orto to fall she is here hero herein heroin in in hordes in in the business world as our problem m. m Let us do something D to give her ber at least a Jiin living wage If sho she is not sufficiently skilled lo to o earn it lot let us mix some religious justice with our busin business s sand and find do something to increase her efficiency cf- cf which oho eho has never er been able ablo to develop clop through no fault of her J J r own |