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Tin: C:ZZZ3Z1 UAXX.Y JCrUTriTAT,, FOiriXAHD, TUESDAT, JULY' I, 1319. : i . : .: . -. . : ' : : - ! r SUDEII T with the girls employed In the elevators of the first class . hotels such as were represented . at the meeting,: realizing that working conditions were favorable, but to prevent women from -working In elevators at the - more , questionable places, where, only .one elevator is oper ated and where . the operator ' does all sorts of other duties.' The distinction between hqtels" and lodging houses was then made to exempt the-hotels, but to make the , ruling ; effective in tbe great number, of - rooming .house. 7 many : of which are of questionable reputation. ' ' 8oroe testimony - was- given In behalf Of the laundry workers, claiming that if a . girl could not learn the business in two .weeks, she- was discharged ; that three months at the utmost should be all the time .necessary to learn even the most difficult type of work, and that the laundrymen's basis of one ' year's ap prenticeship is preposterous. The' con ference expressed the opinion that the matter of apprenticeship would open up a wide field of controversy and deferred action until. some future time, - -v;- EAGLE KRi :t!l VEEK AT HEARING Industrial Welfare. Board's Rule -4or Become Effective Next Julyf Decision of Wage Conference. RESTRICT 'LIFT GIRliHOURS Portland to' Be Without CeJebra tion on 'Fourth, but'Restof ; District-Will : Have' BigTinie. .-."i ' j " " " ' ? HEROES ARE; TO BE; FETED NURSES mm mm OVER m EST Yr? T7 7 i r.l-i L'i r-i ' . - OLD-TIE STCLE Feminine Elevator Operators In Lodging Houses; Wilh Not rBe Allowed to Work After 6 P. M. '-' A E-hour week for student nurses, In ' hospitals, to become effective Julyvl, " 1926, thus riving the hospitals In Ore son , year to axJjuflt themselves, , was ' established by the wage conference ot the- Industrial welfare commission Mon day afternoon. ' - 1 , Drawing a distinction between hotels . and lodginc houses, defining the former as those Institutions that maintain din ilnr rooms besides lodging acoommoda , tions. JLhe "--conference exempted - hotels from the 6 o'clock ruling for elevator : girls classifying the labor with house- keeping occupations. Women ' are pro hibited from running elevators in. lodg Ing houses after 6 p. m. .'.r-"-..; !"" Tlie. question of shortening the ap prentice period for laundry workers v was deferred until a future meeting. . The - conference expects to conclude i . its work this afternoon, in a, lengthy . session commencing, at 2 p. m.j - GBEAT ZXFE58E IJCYOIiYED V . - Representatives from ; the ., hospitak agreed . that shorter hours for - nurses were desirable, but that great expense will be involved in - bringing it about, which the public, will; have to pa&. 4. Good Samaritan hospital, - said Miss ! Emily . Loveridge, , superintendent, .will i require at least SQl extra nurses.', who may be difficult to secure. It will have to raise at least 150,000 to build a new A wing upon the building. . and will , also have to build additions to the nurses: home and the laundry. - Other' hospitals will be put to similar expenditures and ' the cost placed upon the public -... V Discussion brought out the fact that nurses on night shirts are now wonting 12 hours a day or 84 hoars a week for a ' period of six weeks four times during - their three-year course. This Is contrary 'to the present law, which places the , " maximum at SO hours a week... Repre ' sentatlves from the Women's hospital of V Portland, St. Mary's hospital of Astoria, the Cole Maternity home and Oregon ' City, hospital also spoke. , Hotelmen were represented by Man ager A. B. Campbell of the Multnomah, Manager Phil JMetscban Jr. of the Im ' . serial, Manager Smith of the ; Benson. ; ' fl. W. Price of the MaUory, representing the Hotelmen's association, and, C E. I Kent, attorney. Miss Mildred Carr. cap tain of the elevator girls at the Multno mah also spoke. It was testified that the girls worked . less than 48 .hours a week and were paid 60 a month, while boys in the - same positions before the war .were paid ' only S40 to $45 ; that they were- better .j workers, , more reliable and .had fewer '-accidents i that they were less liable to . corruption than boys and promtply re ported - any' evidence of bootlegging or Immoral practices ; thaj most of them ; employed are of mature age ; that they jjL are satisfied .and their work and their employers are satisfied with them, and v that if the o'clock ruling were en forced it would? result in their being : discharged. ' ".".'.. . ,:.!. Members of the conference said that it was not their -intention to Interfere WILLIAMS': 'SILENCE' BASIS; OF FURTe ; CONTRACT CHARGES Mute - Acquiescence in Improper . . Agreements Alleged Against V Currency Comptroller.. Washington, July 1 New charges were made, today against John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, before .the banking and currency com mission of the senate. -. & ; , , Wade H. Cooper, a Washington bank er,' told the committee that Williams had been guilty ef. "acquiescence by silence" In the making of Improper contracts be tween the railroad administration and the railroad in; which members of Wil liams' family were interested. Cooper testified the Georgia ' Florida railroad, of which .Williams' brother is receiver, had shown a deficit of $519,000 a year, but . that - the , railroad. .. administration made a. contract to pay the road $88. 000 a year net .profit. Cooper declared that, as director of finance of the rail road administration., - John , Skelton Wil liams "maintained silence" and allowed the contract to be made. ; Cooper also cKarged that Williams,' as comptroller of the currency, allowed a firm of Richmond - bankers, with which he was formerly connected, to maintain a large overdraft , with . a Washington bank, which was secured by worthless paper. .. ,, , Cooper renewed the former charge that Williams had attempted to "de stroy and terrify" certain banks Williams, answering Cooper's charges, declared:-"- ', ..... . As director of finance, I never read the contract with- the Georgia Sc. Flori da railroad, nor did I advise on It I asked the director 'general that. I might be kept clear because certain members of my family had been Interested in it." lie declared that figures given by Cooper were "grossly Inaccurate.'.' and charged that the earnings of the rail- LroaC were practically those - allowed by uie1 raurow aaminisirauon; -- Under cross examination Williams tes tified that he held "$4000 or' $5000 worth of stock" in the Georgia ft Florida rail road and had formerly been president of of the road. ; - y - ' "I, retired. from all corporate Interests when I came to Washington, however," Williams added. - Tanks , Stlllv on Job Chicago, July 1. Although peace waa signed Saturday, "tanks" were still on the job here. Joint Celebrations ; Are Arranged 1 in Many Sections: Dinners and t Dances Will Be . features. - WhOe : Portland is .to - be celebration less Friday, the. remainder of the state and the Northwest will "hear., the "eagle scream in oldtlme fashion. ' Districts about , the metropolis i are. preparing ' to take care of many Port landers, w ha will be. lured : away from, the city for the day. 1 ( ' In v some sections .. . whole i- counties will join in one great gala time, and in many places two or more towns "will hold joint-celebrations. The presence of ex-service " men , in being made the motive of home coming affairs in -v the .'majority of Northwest cities.:-!! Dinners, dances and other forms of recreation are ;., being provided for these heroes. , Will Join Ashland Gold Hill. July 1.- Gold HU1 and the north end of . Jackson "county will not celebrate this year. Those not 'attend ing' the three-day ."round; up"' at Ash land will celebrate the day. picnicking. Several sawmill and mining crews laid off last Saturday for a week of fes tivities. , . , , ; , , ; , Dr., Waldo Will Spealj ; Albany. July Dr W. A.' Waldo Of the - White Temple,. Portland, will de liver the Fourth of July . address In Albany. 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