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Show T0 ESCAPE SWEATSHOPS Chicago March 31. Marriage death or an Immoral life arc the only avenues aven-ues of escape for girls from the toil of the "sweatshops" according to tes timony of witnesses before the llli nols vice commission today Lieutenant Governor Barran O'Hars devoted much lime to examining girl-? and women witnesses from the West Sode sweatshops" dlstrlet where wanes wan-es range from $2 50 to $5 a week As a result of the stories of hard ship and penury told by the witnesses, Lieutenant Governor O'Hara agreed with Senator Juul to gve one dollar each to "sweatshop ' witnesses because be-cause It was believed that the witness BS would be "docked" by their in ployers for the time spent before the commission The moral obligation of employers to make certain that all their emplo es are properly clothed and adequate I. nourished was emphasized throu-' out todays session of th? comn slon Agents of the commission todn seized the books of Rosenwald Well, clothing manufacturers, who failed to respond to subpoenas to ap pear before the commission. Wages Paid to Girls. Walter .1 Rubens, a manufacturer of underwear, was the first witness examined by the state vIcp commls slon at the hearing resumed hero today. to-day. Rubens was questioned at length bjf Lieutenant Governor O'Hara In an effort ef-fort to obtain Information regarding the effect of a minimum wage law for women girls The wit ness said bs fB ' national mini mum wage law ai , slsted that n state law would worK a great hard ship upon manufacturers In Individual states until all states had adopted similar legislation. Rubens deserlbed alleged activities by women among the several hundred girls employed in bio olant He said he had been convinced that these women were attempting to lure girls to lead immoral lives. After Rubens had concluded his testimony a number of working worn-I worn-I en were placed on the stand to describe de-scribe how they lived on wages of from $3 to $5 a week Several of these women witnesses were from West Side "sweatshops " One woman wom-an testified that she worked 12 hours a day for $3.40 a week. |