“Sweated” Industries.
Some amazing facts with regard to the prevalence of “ sweating ’’ among women workers were placed before a conference in London a few weeks ago- ' Experts stated that more than 300.000 women engaged in organised industries earned less than 12s for a full week’s iemployraent. In London factories some women earned 6s a week and many thousands received 8s io 9s a week. Several typical women workers appeared before the conference and stated their own case. A matchbox maker said she was paid 3d n gross, and could make four gross in six hours. A shirt-maker said she and her husband had made fourteen dbzen shirts by working cnniimiouslv. from 5.30 a-m. to 11 p.m. The gross payment was 10s 0(1, and they had to pay Is lOd for cotton and Is fid for the machineRevelations of this kind are sufficient ta account for a vast amount of “ Industrial unrest’’ in the Mother Coil rill y.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1401, 20 January 1914, Page 6
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