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VOL.4, NO. 140
Chicago, Friday, March 12, 1915
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WARM FIGHT BETWEEN LUNCH ROOM
BOSSES AND WAITRESSES IS ON
Judge Baldwin Hears Knab, Efting and Powers .Case
Against Girl Workers Elizabeth Maloney Tells
of Struggle to Better Conditions for,
I k Working Girls
The story of the waitresses strug
gle to secure better conditions for
working girls against a combine of
restaurant keepers formed for the
purpose of fighting the organization
was told yesterday in Judge Bald
win's court at the hearing of the
Knab, Efting, Powers et al case
against union waitresses by Eliza
beth Maloney, financial secretary and
business manager of the Waitress'es'
Union.
Miss Maloney's testimony wa& giv
en under an avalanche of objections
from Dudley Taylor, lawyer for the
restaurant combine. Hope Thomp
son, attorney for the waitresses, at
tempted to show that the waitresses
had tried to get one day's rest hi
seven through the Illinois legislature
and were fought and defeated by the
restaurant and hotelkeepers' com
bine despite the constant reiteration
of restaurant men on the stand that
they were not opposed to a six-day
week. Judge Baldwin ruled the evi
dence could not be introduced.
That nearly forty of the restaurant
keepers mentioned in the bill of com
plaint filed by the restaurant combine
were never approached by the wait
resses' union to organize their shops
was testified to by Miss Maloney.
She stated that there were over
100 restaurants signed up with the
union before the Knab fight and only
about 35 at the present time.
Knab's chief contention has been