GEISHA GIRLS
STAGE A STRIKE. UNION RIGHTS CONCEDED. (Times Air Mall Service.) LONDON, July 27. The geishas of Osaka recently organised a sitdown strike and won trade union rights, says the Daily Express. There are' 80,000 geisha girls —public entertainers—in Japan, and the movement for better pay and conditions is reported to bo spreading. These girls sing and dance; are adept at light conversation. Average gross earnings are £lO a month. The best performers charge about 12s an hour. Kazuko Yamamoto, professionally known as Kiharu (“Happy Spring"), one of the star geishas of Toklo, Is twenty-three, earns about £3O a month, spends on an average £3 a week on beauty preparations and buys her own beautiful clothes. Her net Income is about £l2 a month—approximately equivalent to the' salary of a higher civil servant in Japan, land of small incomes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 25 (Supplement)
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140GEISHA GIRLS Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 25 (Supplement)
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