WAGES IN PAISLEY.

Evening Star, Issue 7248, 27 June 1887, Page 4

WAGES IN PAISLEY.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sin,—Like your correspondent "Observer" I am proud of the model works of J. and P. Coat*, of Paisley, and one reason, if cot the only one, is that the working heid of the firm (Mr W. Coats) is a Christian in deed; but lam soiry to say that the wages paid to their hands are very small, and not at all like those paid in America. When I was at Home some of my own family worked there, and at seventeen years a brother got Cs per week ; men on the night Bhift of ten hours got 12s per week; girls got from 3s to ] os. I have often seen them — over 1 000—coming from their work, and not one of them had a hat on his or her head, and about three-parts of them had neither boots nor stockings on. lam sorry to tell it, but both summer apd tyin,tcr many poor women, and i>ld, are tofcio seen i)V iMisley and Glasgow with naked feet*-a thing whic'ii'J n.oycr'saw iu America. I would icmind "Observer" of a fact that Protection in America has caused the firm of J. and P. Coats to open a mill in America. That vas certainly good for pro tcctcd America.—l am, etc., J. Neil. Dunedin, June 2G.