Tlu> cost, of living in Now York is now _so high that- Miss Frances Perkins, New Y'ork State Industrial Commissioner, in an address before the Association to Provide Proper Housing for Girls, declared the lowest cost for a room and three meals daily for a working girl was o'Js a week. Miss Perkins added, that a beginner’s wage for girls vas 52s to • 60s a week. She Urged • that wages should he increased to permit girls to live proper h\
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 5
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80Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 5
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