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    NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YORK. 321

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    ir Fear ls who s were shoul expressed d take part th in at this some movement employer ; s but mig it ht was disch hoped arge

    g that " no man would about such mean state enoug of h . " The that object of could the

    g irls was to fair bring riceand not be a wholl things at the m they of their loyersso p that , both should have y a voice in ercy making the

    organised bargai emp n ins , , one tead par ticular only class one . t of When workers the i at a Association t time rike could til was ask the

    f demand or higher was wages acceded , and to refuse being o suppor work , ted ( . e . meanwhil , s ) un by the common fundThere were , ladies of wealth in that city who

    . th woul e speaker d contribute considered to the object that nei of ther help ing y sending the workin money g girl to s , and the could t

    hea so t much hen , or _suffering endowing and chari save table so institutions many from t , crime such they . But preven for he

    i believed f the 30 t hat w the orking girls g could irls of " New independen York should each contribute p ; their five , cents weekly , it would create an ample weekl of y Hood fund .

    Before the meeting broke up , ( with the reading ' s Song 1 of Th the at an Shirt ) anisation the three following be commenced resolutions for the were passed of . purpose

    mo uniting vement . the for working increasing org women the prices of the now cit paid y of them New for York labour in .

    2 3 . . That That we every will shop unite together reques for ted such to send a purpose delega . tes to a eiht

    meeting to be held next Wednesday evening at go ' clock , at Such 187 , Bowery was the , first second meeting floor . conducted as the reort shows in

    se an cond orderl com y and osed di even gnified tually manner , delega . It tes was only , followed , thoug p h it by the t a

    little t , rouble p to secure the strict observance of the regulation the that movem only such ent should by the be publication present . Owing of the to facts the no connected toriety given with to

    the payment several of " working reformers girl " s , and of th em y edi ladie toria s ls cam in e various in to

    with p attend apers some . , The of writer these ladies in " The for , World the part _" app they ears had mu , taken ch disgus in the ted

    anti " unpal -slavery pable caus theories e , and " In , other what , what a he theory is pleased can ever to be call so

    fa Preci r consolida pitated te action d as to mi . b g ht rendered perhaps pal way re pable nder a he theor does y writer not sufficien exp woul lain tl d y .

    solid to enable it to be handled ; but to this the probabl nature another . y He lace object charitabl he still y more " supposes venerabl than that e to women these one " of ) aged an " " females ilan unpal throp pable , " ists ( in " .

    psays , p , of reformers making , and long ismites speeches , _* " , attended which , should of course be dul with y reported the intention in the

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    Needlewomen At New York. 321

    NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YORK . 321

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/33/