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    OVEHWOBKEB DRESSMAKEKS, 305 I

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    LVL—OVERWORKED DRESSMAKERS AND THE

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    is legal The tha chief limi t the tation...

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    Miss Inly Lives In A Strange Old House,

    And though stern Time must dim your bright eyes , And silver the hair now golden

    Yet I think your heart will still be , young , When your years have long been olden .

    John Chukchill Beenan .

    Ovehwobkeb Dressmakeks, 305 I

    _OVEHWOBKEB DRESSMAKEKS _, 305 I

    Lvl—Overworked Dressmakers And The

    LVL—OVERWORKED DRESSMAKERS AND THE SHORT HOURS' BILL .

    Is Legal The Tha Chief Limi T The Tation...

    is legal The tha chief limi t the tation evil num whicii ber of the of it hours day is supposed workers of work , in woul l the oyed d case be during p of rod dressmakers uced the season by the ,

    - would out of be work much in increased the slack , t and ime that of emp these would day-workers have no , t hones hrown t year

    privation means of and living temptation " , and . be exposed , consequently to much

    The This answer is a most to it serious is that objection milliners . in country towns , who also k tt

    hours have s a lack day some bu times sy seasons lessyet , seldom seldom wor loy more day workers wel . ve

    The scarcity , of employmen , t for wome emp n being less felt in counttowns than in Londona milliner could not get

    thus would apprentices ry practicall prefer or to y assistants go mil into liner t s service if in she l th over e ould or , coun turn -worked try t to t some them if un other der . The a work shor rked girls t ;

    greater them hours' long law extent , hours becau than , se yet London he they g milliners do s w not . no ploy say day-workers they wo to a

    avoid Emp it loyers because will not the engage learn th day e ne workers w tt , if s they and can trimmin possibl y g

    not wer and e make passed , loy them , it da is common -work more y er than s . they Consequentl probable would that pa y get , if larger the a tw milliners elve premis hou es rs would ' and bill ,

    l emp more res y ident hands , whicii is the effect desired . emp This oy would of course put , them to greater expense and have fortunes

    and two results they would : they charge would hi make gher their for making own dresse more s . Neither slowly , The heads of establishments of

    result would do much harm . be this carriages observed kind , and now that could make dressm well large akers afford ' fortunes assistants somewhat , keep are less more country profit or less . villas worked It may and

    according there is less to the size loyment of the for town women tliey live in in proportion , because in to towns their

    numbers than emp in the country . A young woman who had been

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/17/