Higher wages are urged for women.

• Position: THE 1930S FLASHBACK - Brief article

December 6, 1930

A $25 per week minimum wage for working women would be one of the greatest boons to the elimination of unemployment, inefficiency; and poverty among the working population of the United States, according to Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Miss Anderson said that the $25 per week minimum and shorter work week proposed by a large Boston department store...