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Editorial
November 12, 1930
Grand Rapids Herald Review
Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minnesota
What is this article about?
The editorial critiques the exploitation of poor working girls by syndicates in candy sales and hotel check rooms, where employers fabricate sob stories and siphon tips and profits, showing more sympathy for dollars than for the needy.
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SYMPATHY FOR DOLLARS.
In a nearby city the other day we saw a poor young girl selling candy bars from place to place. She said she was helping her mother who was sick.
Later we found that some people in the city were hiring poor, forlorn working girls to sell this candy. They were paid wages, of course, but there was no sick mother and the employers were the kind of people who had no sympathy with sick folks at home.
At the larger hotels the check room girls look after the coats and hats and take the tips. Most men wish to help the girls. But the girls are working for mere wages for syndicates which have bought the hat checking privileges and which take the profits. The girls get but a small part.
In fact, so valuable have been these privileges that those in the checking business furnish the capital to establish and furnish restaurants. And still many engaged in doing these things think they are in respectable business.
In a nearby city the other day we saw a poor young girl selling candy bars from place to place. She said she was helping her mother who was sick.
Later we found that some people in the city were hiring poor, forlorn working girls to sell this candy. They were paid wages, of course, but there was no sick mother and the employers were the kind of people who had no sympathy with sick folks at home.
At the larger hotels the check room girls look after the coats and hats and take the tips. Most men wish to help the girls. But the girls are working for mere wages for syndicates which have bought the hat checking privileges and which take the profits. The girls get but a small part.
In fact, so valuable have been these privileges that those in the checking business furnish the capital to establish and furnish restaurants. And still many engaged in doing these things think they are in respectable business.
What sub-type of article is it?
Social Reform
Labor
What keywords are associated?
Working Girls Exploitation
Syndicates Profits
Labor Conditions
Sympathy For Dollars
What entities or persons were involved?
Poor Young Girls
Syndicates
Employers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Exploitation Of Working Girls By Profit Driven Employers
Stance / Tone
Critical Of Profit Over Sympathy
Key Figures
Poor Young Girls
Syndicates
Employers
Key Arguments
Employers Hire Poor Girls To Sell Candy Under False Pretenses Of Helping Sick Mothers
Girls In Hotel Check Rooms Receive Wages But Tips And Profits Go To Syndicates
Syndicates Use Profits To Fund Restaurants, Prioritizing Business Over Workers' Needs