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    320 NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YOKE.

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    Flannel Fine shirts shirts _, all from finished four to , are eiht a cents dollar each a dozen and from for making nine to

    _a dozen can be made in a day g . Here again , prices have gone now down bring , as a about dollar 80 a dozen cents . was By paid working in 1860 early for and the late sam at e large that

    cloaks 3 three dollars a week can be made . At corsets two dollars to two and a half a week ; at button-holes on coats

    work about . ' four At dollars dressmaking a week three can dollars be made a week , but is " it made is very working hard *

    from seven to seven . Linen coats , of which there is we , suppose a very large demand in America , are made for 18 to 20 cents

    each ; two of them are a good ten hours' work . The girls iron _& and ve cents finish a them coat , . and hav Shelter e to buy tents their " with own . 46 thread button , which -holes costs and

    16 eyelets brought last season 25 cents each to the maker , but are now come down to eig'ht cents , and only four can be made

    in a day , working as long as one can see . Cavalry tents are Vest eight mak cents ers ap get iece 25 for or basting 30 cents , and a four day can and be " basted sewing in machine a day .

    operators" iive cents for stitching 50 , yards . Parasols and umbrellas are 50 cents a dozen , and eight can be made in a

    day . In some of the establishments if a button is left off a the shirt Of emp , other it loy is a ers trades rule , if to a than g deduct irl that is five 25 of minutes cents needlewomen _froio late . the , deduct pay it was ; five and stated cents some that . of

    , p press hotograp feeders hers sometimes _" stand on g * their et four feet dollars from morning a week , to and nig that ht ,

    emp and loyers get three ; one dollar of them s a week threatened . " Some to comp kick a laints young were lad made y down of

    one stairs lad , or y had to call worked a policeman for ten years when for she one asked firm at for tassel money making ; and , and whenshe asked for an advance from three to four dollars

    per week , , it was refused . The object of the meeting was stated by the gentlemen from

    tion the Working of the workin Men ' s Union irls fox to be general u not protection a strike , but and a combina to bring - *

    the subject of the miserable g g pay received by them , before the public . It was not realised in the community that so

    deplorable a state of facts existed . The girls did not receive enough to board decently , and in instances where there were children

    or aged parents to support , the hardship was terrible . " Neither , grinding they continued down their , did hands the emp and loyers it was realise hoped that how the they " moral were

    effect" of the publication , of these facts would induce good employers" to raise their wages . The selling prices of the

    and articles yet the made prices , were paid double for making what they were were much a year lessened or two . ago ,

    320 Needlewomen At New Yoke.

    320 NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YOKE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/32/