Shawnee County KS Archives News....."Girls Walk Out"; Topeka; April 1, 1918 April 1, 1918
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The Topeka Daily State Journal April 1, 1918
Monday
April 1, 1918

Girls Walk Out. 

Topeka Sees Its First Laundry Strike Today.
Eighteen Workers at Mutual Plant Leave Place.
Insist on Joining Unions.
Demanded That Manager Hire New Girls on Plan.
Police Called to Perserved Order This Afternoon.

Eighteen girls, employed at the Mutual laundry, Third and Quincy streets, walked
out this afternoon following demands made by them to C.H. MATTHEWS, manager.
According to Matthews the girls appeared before him in a delegation and demanded
that whenever he hired a new girl in the laundry that she be obliged to sign a
statement saying she would willingly join the union.
Matthews stated that he has not yet turned down the girls' demands. He has the
matter under consideration, he says, and in the meantime the girls are on a strike.
When the girls notified Matthews they were going to walk out, the manager called
the police station and asked for a man to perserve order. 


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