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Show HIRED GIRLS IN SPAIN SEEK RAISE TO $10 MONTH MADRID. Jan. 22 Americans accustomed ac-customed to paying their ordinarv "hired girls" $50 or more a month for general housework will be interested inter-ested to learn that Spanish domestic!; are forming a. labor organization to enforce a demand for an Increase thai will brine: their wages up to the equivalent of $5 or even $10 a month. Cooks, parlor maids, kitchenmaids. wet nurses, and general help have united in a movement not onlv for higher wages but an r-ight-hour day. This may look ridiculous in America but it ic serious business for the Spaniards. They are accustomed to paying their hired girls the equivalent equiv-alent normally or about 4 a month nod requiring them to be on duty from early in the morning to late at night, or even until 1 o'clock the following fol-lowing morning. The servant girls of Spain usually ire flowed a half day off each lionth. The eight hour day proposal hits ihe householder hardest One newspaper news-paper satirically asks. "How will j baby get on if the wet nurse de-cUnes de-cUnes to perform her duties for more than eight hours a day'" |