"Square Deal," in a letter to The Post, draws attention to the wage of 6s a day paid to women carriage cleaners in the employ of tlio. Puailway Department. This rate, the correspondent considers, compares unfavourably witli the earnings of women who do cleaning work in public buildings and for private employers.
As the result of a "backfire" from cranking an automobile, Mrs. Jessie Davie, employed on the staff of the Midland Hotel, was admitted to the Hospital to-day with a dislocated right arm.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8
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