Scene in the main dining room of the Municipal Lodging House on East 25th Street. From the New York Tribune, January 24,1915. feel that it is all we are worth, but because it can help keep us from starvation till times are better!'28 The amount of wages for the workshop employees was, nevertheless, the committee's most constantly perplexing problem. At first it had paid the workers seventy-five cents per day (minus three cents for lunch), but as raising funds from private sources became more difficult, the committee realized it would have to cut either wages or workers. Since it felt that a little was better than nothing, the committee adopted its own advice and reduced wages to maintain the greatest possible number of jobs.29 By March the pay was sixty cents per day for women and fifty-seven cents for men (but several generous restaurants and hotels were now providing free lunch for the workers). Near the end of the workshops' 2STimes, March 12,1915, April 25,1915; Petition to Mayor Mitchel, April 14, 1915, Perkins Papers. 29 Times, February 2,1915.