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VOL. 4, NO. 166 Chicago, Monday, ApriP12, 1915
398
DEPARTMENT STORES SCORED FOR
TREATMENT OF YOUNG GIRLS
&" Chicago Public Schools Employment Director Says That
Youncr Girl With Hair Down Her Back Goes From
r o. . t- . rr i i i r
oiore to ractory as j-aaynooa comes
Wages the Cause
Repartment store cash, girls never
climb on up to higher jobs with more
money. At least most of them don't
Instead of climbing, they slide out of
the department store and go to "low
grade factories," where- they get
more money as wages.
This is thes testimony of Miss Anna
Davis jn a written statement read to
ttie child labor committee of the leg
islature at Planters' hotel. Miss
Davis is director of the bureau of em
ployment supervision of the Chicago
public schools. She traces' the cash
girl's career about like this:
"The little girl whose hair is down
in. braids, with her skirt above their
sboetops, is used for a few years and
then thrown out She grows up
listening to the cry of 'cash!' Her
hair is taken out of braids and pu
up in coils on top of her head. -She
wears longer skirts. The first thing
she knows she isn't a little girl. She's
a young lady. And she wants more
money. To get more wage money
she's got to go out to the factories.
The department stores; for all their
bragging about the schools they have
for teaching and advancing employes,
don't' take care of the child workers."
This is from Miss Davis' official state-
ment:
"Employers say 'give us girls who
are quick and we will do the rest
The most unfortunate thing about all
of this work is that it is not educa
tive. In the department stores girls
find employment as cash girls and in
spectors, Ond might readHy think
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