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Show I Working Giris in Kansas Need $141 Yearly for Dress EMPORTA, Kans . March 17. K working girl cannot dress respectably and comfortably on less than sin.os a year, Bmporla women testified thl morninc in the final minimum wage hearing before the Kansas Industrial court here. I'art of that sum $13 6 7 is for upkeep of clothing Members of the business and professional women's wo-men's clubs testified that the employers' employ-ers' budget division of $H3 was Inadequate. Inade-quate. The women itemized room rent, food and clothing and declared costs of the necessities of life have not been reduced enough to permit much, if any reduction of the minimum wage for working girls. Th girls and students at the state normal school here, who recently made a "hunger" tet to determine a fair alliance al-liance for food also were to testify. |