Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-01 | Page 4 | Poverty in Large Cities

POVERTY IN LARGE CITIES. Poverty such as cities breed is illustrated by the case of a Chicago Chi-cago woman and her twelve-year-old daughter which State Factory Inspector Davies has reported. For several months the mother worked work-ed as a tobacco stripper in the factory of a Julius Greenberg for wages averaging 40 cent3 a day. This was not enough to buy food, clothing and shelter for her, her daughter and an infant, so the child also went to work. Their hours were from 6:45 in the morning to 5 :30 in the evening and together they were paid by their employer about $4 a week. The desertion of a husband had driven the mother to such straits. The employer is likely to find his penuriousness will cost him dear and be likely to pay living wages next time, for Inspector Davies has said Greenberg will be prosecuted at once. "He ha3 violated vio-lated the law in requiring a woman to work more than ten hours a day and also by employing a child under 14 years of age," he said. "We discovered also that his place was in a filthy condition. Under the law, he may bo fined $25 a day for every day that Mrs. Bazrow worked in his place for more than ten hours, and besides a fine of from $5 to $500 may be imposed on him for violating the child labor law.