Show three avenues of escape fos for girls 31 0 als chicago Chi caso march 81 31 marriage death or an immoral life are tho the only avenues of escape for girls from tho the toll of the sweat according to testimony of witness before tho illinois vico vice commission today gov baratt 0 devoted much timo time to examining girls and women witnesses from the west side 44 sweat shop district where wages range from 2 60 50 to a week As a result of stories of hardship and penury told by the witnesses gov oham agreed with senator juul to give 1 each to sweat shop witnesses because it was believed that tho witnesses would bo be 1 I docked by their employers for tho the time spent before the commission tho the moral obligation of tho the employers to mako make certain that all their employed emp loyes aro are properly clothed and adequately nourished was emalia seized throughout session of t the ho commission commis ilon agents of tho the commission today slewed the boas of rosenwald alil we well ll 11 clothing manufacturers who failed to respond to subpoenas to appear before tho the commission commiss loa walter walterf J rubens a manufacturer of underwear was tho the first bitnes I 1 examined by tho the state vice commission at tho the hearing resumed hero here today rubens was questioned at length by gov ohara in an effort to obtain information regarding tho the effect of a state minimum wage law for women and girls the witness said he favored a national minimum wage law und insisted that a state law would work ork u great hardship upon manufacturers in individual states until all states had adopted similar legislation ruben described alleged activities of women among the several hundred bundred girls employed in his plant he said he had been convinced that attempting to these women were lure girls to lead inin immoral loral lives after rubens had concluded his testimony a number of working tho the stand to women were placed on describe how they lived on wages of from 3 to an 5 a week several of these women witnesses were from west side sweat shops onar a woman te testified stifled that sho she worked 12 hours a day for a week |