Consequently the camps and cantonments were provided with their own laundries built by the Construction Division.
Provided a basis for the operation and financing of camp laundries and dry-cleaning plants operated in connection with base salvage plants.
In answer to their inquiry the police officer informed them that there were four Chinese establishments in the city--two laundries and two restaurants.
The laundries proved to be near the center of the town, one on Main Street, the other on Clyde Street.
How many hotel laundries send the linen to the linen-room damp and steaming and smelling of soap?
A good soft soap for use in hotel laundries can be made from the refuse fat from the kitchen.
There was a law in Oregon which decreed that the working day of women in factories and laundries should be ten hours long.
The law was constantly violated, especially in the steam laundries of Portland.
The remainder were working in shires, in laundriesand dye works, in workrooms other than Chinese in which less than four persons were employed, or in their own homes.
Laundries and dye-works are constituted factories, and the powers of inspectors are in several respects strengthened.
In the riots of July, 1877, in San Francisco, twenty-five Chinese laundries were burned.
The possibility of unionizing the Japanese laundries is not even considered.
Within another week the nine laundries that had escaped the fire resumed work, the employés going back under the old agreement.
Two-thirds of the steam laundries had been destroyed, likewise the union headquarters.
But still there were only eighteen steam laundries to meet all San Francisco's needs, and therefore business was very brisk.
This because in all laundries there is apt to be delay in starting work on Monday, as hardly any work can be done until the drivers have come in from their first round, with bundles of soiled linen.
By the time the next April came round nine of the burnt laundries were rebuilt, all on the most modern scale as to design and fittings, and equipped with the very newest machinery.
All of the steam laundries in San Francisco, now thirty-two in number, are unionized, including the laundries operated in one of the largest hotels.
But outside the labor organization, and at once a sad contrast and a possible menace, lie two groups of businesses, the French laundries and the Japanese laundries.
Among these, the large laundries were commercial laundries, such as we all patronize, and hotel and hospital laundries.
The laundriesand the State of Oregon agreed to carry a test case to the Federal Supreme Court to determine the new law's constitutionality.
Third: That the laundries of hotels and hospitals be placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor.
For, although the labor at the machines in the laundry wash-rooms is done by men, and all work in laundries consists largely of machine tending, still women's part in the industry can be performed only by unusually strong women.
These laundries do not tend to work late at night, but they more frequently violate the sixty-hour law than the others do.
It is the intention of the League to publish within the year a white list of the New York steam laundries conforming to this standard in wages, hours, and sanitation.
The girls working in the laundries there received about $10 a month, with the privilege of 'living in.
Whoever sets neighborhood laundries on foot will do much to solve the American housekeeper's hardest problem.
In only two of the twenty-eight commerciallaundries in Pittsburgh, is the wash room on the upper floor.
Yet in the laundries women were working seventeen and eighteen hours a day, standing over heavy machines for $3 and $3.
Laundries carried on in connexion with charitable or reformatory institutions were brought in 1907 within the scope of the law, but special schemes for regulation as to hours, meals, holidays, &c.
For laundries and bakehouses there are further sanitary regulations; e.
Broadly these same regulations as to exceptional overtime may apply in laundries but the act of 1907 granted to laundries not merely ancillary to the manufacture carried on in a factory or workshop (e.
Private laundries that do not come under the inspection of the sanitary officer are absolutely forbidden.
The kitchen and laundries are at the top of this building, the laboratories below.
Laundries are amongst the worst paying establishments, and there is practically no chance of advancement.
Four laundries in Pittsburgh have adopted an improved cuff-ironing machine which saves the operator from the extreme physical exertion of the old style (p.
His work on the use of acids in fabric-disintegration has a reputation throughout the laundries of Europe.
Nobody would have guessed that he was an engineer and the inventor of the Button-pulper and Hem-render which have done so much to make our laundries what they are.
An agitation was started to give publicity to these facts, and an ordinance was passed to prohibit work in laundries on Sundays or after 7 P.
Public sympathy was aroused, and by April 1901 the conditions in the San Francisco laundries were revolutionised.
For the whole of the United Kingdom the averages for power and for hand laundries were practically the same, being 12s.
In the case of power laundries Ireland is at the bottom of the list with an average of 10s.
The Act of 1901 included laundries carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain.
In general, they exploited the laundries more than any other place.
There has also been considerable regulation of laundries and bakeries, but not because they are what is commonly called sweated trades.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laundries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
