EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES.
TO THB EDITOR OF THE PBSSS. . Sib,—While the movement is on foot to giye relief to gixls serving in the drink shops, I think it would be as well to call attention to another existing hardship in the case of girls employed in other shops on Saturday nights. I have just been informed of one—a linen draper's assistant —who was kept at it on Saturday last from nine o'clock in the morning till after ten at night, the first nine hoars of which her employment would not allow her to Bit down,not even to eat her lunch; and I take it this is not a solitary case, but only one of many. If this be so, I ttunk it quite time our laws were so framed as to prevent any shopkeeper from over-working their girls, and then to turn them adrift on the streets between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday nights to seek their home's, many of them having at least a lfcile or two to go unprotected from any insults they may meet with from a daes which, as • rule, are far too numeroiiß in our etreete at that,tune.! By inserting this you will ''.'.". ; .• .■• ■ '■"- ':'■■'■ TOUTB, &C, ..-,-...,•.■ Jakes Goss.
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Press, Volume XLI, Issue 6153, 9 June 1885, Page 3
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