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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION CITY ENGINEER JOHN ERICSON ACCUSED OF DOUBLE-CROSSING CITY AT HOT SESSION THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D: Cochraa, Editor arid Publisher. 500, South Peoria St. 398 Telephones: Editorial Monroe 353. Circulation Monroe 3826. VOL. 4,'NO. 65 Chicago, Saturday, Dec. 12, 1914 ONE CENT WIVES OF PAYERS OF STARVATION WAGES THROWN INTO UPROAR .Women's Congress Hears Gertrude Barnum LashWomen Who Live in Luxury While Husbands Underpay Girl Workers Minimum Wage for all Work Asked Wealthy women who live In luxury on the money wrested from poorly paid girl employes of their"tiusbands were fiercely denounced today by Miss Gertrude Barnam, special agent for the United States commission on industrial relations, in an, address be fore the congress of ' Illinois club women on legislative measures at the Congress hQtelr "I ' feel the sense of shame for these ' women," said Miss Barnum, "and greater shame that the money have lavished in extravagance and waste. "There is no fearness in the aver age business man in dealing with his female employe. He gets her for as low a wage as her necessities compel her to accept, works her for as many hours as she may endure and makes as -much profit out of her as he pos sibly can, without any humane con siderations. "The working women themselves are largely to blame. They have ac cepted these conditions and pretend- tiiey-hawtekeo in-thte-ma satisfied with them in order. i Kii$ i V 1 fat &$&feg&i&!&a l?w2225SiSiSB '(U&twtelilWX&fie2 gi f v. ' inn