Last week patients in Chicago's Frances E. Willard Hospital pushed their buzzers without response. Because the hospital's business manager had refused to discuss a request to raise their wages from $25 to $40 per month, 25 nurses had struck for one hour. For this they were discharged.
For their $25 Frances Willard nurses worked 10 hr. a day. So do most U. S. hospital nurses. Last week in Washington some 4,000 convening members of the American Nurses Association voted approval of "an eight-hour day as the regular working day for nurses." Prospects looked...
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