The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1946, Page 5

‘Household Help Says Labor Department x. (By Asnesiated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C. — The household help in this country is peesing out of the picture. According to the Women’s Bu- reau of the Department of Labor, more than 400,000 of the approx- imately two million pre-war house-hold workers went into war work. More than 90 percent | of these former domesti¢ em- ployes intend to keep on work- ing, but close to 80 percent say they never will go back to the kitehen “Undoubtedly, says the Women's “the high earnings offered by the manu- facturing plants are a deciding factor in the desire of women te follow that type of work in DAY, JUNE 18, 1946 Scareer, THE LOW DOWN HICKORY GROVE: To see anything good in this era where everybody is unhap- | Ppy—but with a pocket full of ma- ;zuma—you gotta be a blown-in- the-bottle optimist. But there is one gleam that will make any- body blink. It is 30 governors | getting into bed together—18 re- publicans and 12 democrats. Any- thing can happen from now on. These 30 are demanding that the j Sovt. live within its means. And to be as helpful as we can, every person, when he sees a gov- peasetions. ‘ernment “frill” that could be dis- During the war, average :pensed with, he should tell the Weekly take-home earnings for governor—or even drop a note to fermer domestic employes work- Uncle Harry. img #8 operatives in manufactur-}the “useless ma were $36; in laundries, $23, will report on the BLS—the Bu- and in hotels, $19. lreau of Labor Statistics. The Before the war domestic em-' BLS after years of delving, re- ployes were the lowest paid of ports that if you choose to move! eff women workers in the United to, say Buffalo from Indianapolis ; And to start off frill campaign” Ij States. The median year’s wages that you can save eight per cent! m 1989 for more than a million in rent. But when you get to! domestic workers who were em- Buffalo you will find clothing ployed a full 12 months was costing eight per cent more than $316 ‘in Indianapolis. And when you The Censug Bureau reports set moved it is your baby to find that @ third of these women yourself a job—not the BLS. Also earned less than $200 a year, two it says maybe you will have trou-; thirds less than $400. Since the ble finding a vacant house in Buf- | wa ding to the U. S. Em- falo. s yo Re " ep Nal data.” ‘em how to make dishes as good he Labor Department, ‘85 ours. And after the arn oye the how, we can close our plants shortened since 1939. There (3) one of the 30 ask him how! hes. however. been some im- [ooo < provement in this situation, but Sours withithoslaw down for the most part the work- JO SERRA. week of the full-time domestic employe still exceeds the war- time factory week of 48 hours. | Gimce the end of the war. | LAUREL, Mont.—When thieves most fectory workers do a 40 | entered the police station re- fo 44-hour weekly stint.” (cently and took three pencils Minimun laws in eight and two dime store notebooks, stetes (California, Colorado, Kan-, Police Chief James Bare went m Oklat 4, Oregon, Utah,' into ‘action. Now he locks and Washingt snd Wisconsin) do’ bolts the station to keep thieves ex domestic workers ; out. but Wisconsin is -_ which has a min-| Navy will finish release of its ite for domestic, wartime personnel by Sept. 1. reports the Depart-; - The rate there,! $6 with meals, | week with meals and; basis of 50 hours ai But t to get a maid or | With domestic help wages now t that pa _ | practically pegged at $25 a week, There still are close to a mil- | only the very rich will be -able tiem and @ half domestic work- | to afford them from here on. LOCKS THIEVES OUT OF JAIL! ers, but that’s a small number compared to the 20 million or their own work. The volume of Long Distance calls today is far ahead of war’s heaviest load, as the nation moves forward in peacetime activites. Between towns and cities only a few miles apart, folks are mak- so housewives who are doing | War Fund, Key West Lodge No.! And all around there are go-'appreciation. H sending potters to Japan to show yesen received the certificate on| ting held at the lodge home. | ,untary contributions by members ; have , 150 feet in the air every 70 min- HE KEY WEST CITIZEN mean ELKS WAR COMMISSION CERTIFICATE BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS ELKS WAR COMMISSION { ELKS NATIONAL WAR FUND J. R. NICHOLSON, Chairman 3. T. HALLINAN, Vice Chair-Treas, 23 DR. E. J. McCORMICK, Secretary H.C WARNER, Aw't Trees £. T. ANDERSON J. R. COEN 0. SHOLTZ €, M. SULLIVAN 4 3. S. McCLELLAND é F, J. LONERGAN R.S.BARRETT “% WORLD WAR !t Local Elks Receive Certificate In Recognition of War Contributions In recognition of having con-,deal of other aetivities stemming | veterans’ hospitals in 42 stat tributed its full quota to the Elks | from the war. \recruitment of Navy Seabey Among the activities carried on! Army Engineers, N through the Elks War Fund, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has been presented War Commission headed by Jaines ‘material and manufacture of with an engraved certificate of R. Nicholson, and supplemented 000 pairs of slippers for vetéra by efforts of the individual ledges hospi Alfred L. Bor-| @%¢: “the establishment of © 155 for the M hant Marine. Exalted Ruler fia: pean WME SBE! ee behalf of the lodge from Dave} Sholtz, Elks War Commission| representative, at a special meet- | War Fund is made up of vol- of the Order and is used in many ways to render aid and comfort to members of the armed forces, | us well as to help carry on a great | ORCHIDS TO INDIANA | —AT WHAT A PRICE! | HONOLULU-—AP—A _ Hoosier | girl wore at her graduation an | : z | expansive lei flown from the | Hawaiian Islands. Made of 12) matched white cattleya orchids, it was sent by a friend to Mary Longshore of Brazil, Ind. 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During the war the wing operated a similar bureau ;for merchant seamen and re- | gards the present service as a {contribution “to winning peace.” The wing reasons that it is im- portant to have the cultural op- portunities of New York at the dispdsal of the visitors and re- gards the service as an instru- ment of good will. In its first two days ef exi jtence the bureau turned over po tickets. the’ collection of objects, large small, rare and common, Collecting has been | son’s hobby, but unlike most lectors he does not specialize om any particular item. 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