A PORTSMOUTH SLAVE.
A person who is paid for her labour ,cannot truly be called a slave; but when she is paid 4/6 for 91 hours' work eho is very nearly a slave. Until the other day a little girl in Portsmouth was working seven days a week and 13 hours a day for that wage. Once in three weeks she was given a morning off, and that week she got only 4/ instead of 4/6. Luckily she got to hear of the Juvenile Employment Committees, those splendid bodies of volunteers existing to prevent children who leave school from drifting into bad jobs. The little servant came to the right people when she asked timidly if they coijld find her a place where she would not have to work 13 hours every day for 4/0 a week. They could, and they did. We wonder if her former employer has ever read "The Old Curiosity Shoj)." Charles Dickens' portrait of Sally Brass should give him food for thought.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 307, 28 December 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167A PORTSMOUTH SLAVE. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 307, 28 December 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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