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...revive the scrubwoman controversy just after the fund raised by a group of alumni to pay their back wages had succeeded in removing the matter from the field of, as the liberal journals call it, public discussion. It appears that the Lampoon has published a cartoon representing the scrubwomen as having a riotous spree on the proceeds of the money paid them at Christmas...
...sleeping dog was somewhat rudely roused last Saturday night, January 24, at the Massachusetts Business and Professional Women's dinner in the Hotel Bellevue, when Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, notable militant and feminist, touched on the subject of the late-lamented scrubwomen. She suggested that the $25,000 which was left the University by the late A. E. Pillsbury to combat feminism, should be devoted in part to returning the scrubwomen to their homes, in accordance with Mr. Pillsbury's wish that "college authorities create and develop sound public opinion against impairment of the family by taking women...
Earlier in the year, on March 17, Lamont had denounced the action of the University authorities in the case in a open letter. In reply, H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, issued a statement to the effect that the Widener scrubwomen had at all times been paid the full amount demanded by the Mimimum Wage Commission of Massachusetts, and that the various respites taken by the women from their work during the recess allowed by the University compensated for the fact that they received two cents an hour less in their pay envelope. The next month, Lamont, representing...
...scrubwomen case as a separate issue officially came to a close last spring when the University authorities announced a thorough investigation of the whole employment problem. Until some report of this survey is made public, it is unlikely that any further publicity about the scrubwomen can contribute towards the solution of the basic issue involved...
With the distribution of the conscience money, the last sensational aspect of the case is concluded. There remains, however, the need for some answer to the general question raised by the scrubwomen episode. That answer the University has long since promised to give...