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70 PASSING EVENTS.
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Overwork Of Women And Girls. To While A ...
went to work at five o ' clock and worked till six the morning after' ( twenty-five of hours * ten # ) to . « sit ' I All have at the ray been bed sets - so side were tired when working , thoug I ge h the t I am same of a strong hours morning * and ( the , and health young my y fingers man with , th the are at adults so I have stiff ) . tiredwhat must the
g and irls sore and that hoys I feel cannot V—Ibid dress ., myself p . 8 , Nos . If . 61 I , feel 64 . thus , young young Sl [ The girls frig and htful boys state are of reduced prostration in some , often of ending these establishments In death , to which will the bo
touched on presently . ] , Son " Ann ( sixteen " Simpson )— " We , ( fourteen to years work old last , ) Elizabeth Friday morning Hilton at , ( half fifteen -past , ) Sabab six * ( a : t _Hig Mr
Rid , gway Bridson . ' s Bleach came Works , Bolton . ) ' We worked all Friday night till half- . the past five ght on , excep Saturday t on Saturday morning' morning ( twenty- at three half hours -past five . ) We we laid did not down sleep to sleep any t on ime the in little after less than two hoursand with
hooldng the clothes -box still , and on slep , after t till twen a ty-three hours seven ' work ' ( ) ; * then we went * sleep to , breakfast for half-an-hourand then came and worked till ten minutes past eleven . '—Ibid . p .
25 , No . 236 . , , that " WiiiiiiAM issince he Ceompton twelve . — ' I am and seventeen half . old I h in ave the been four years and a half
till ( different , hours was sometimes years earlsome a times late ) * . I worked dressing once -shop three . We days go on adul three t ni who ghts' toil ( he in , the only one , remember y ) , and no , t among long since multit I udes began , children work on well Friday as
s , same way ; , morning mostly slep at t four at meal , and -times worked , and till five y on stopped Saturday one ni hour ght' for ( thirt meals y-sev j en the hours rest . I ) ate * I while I was working/— -Ibid ., p . 26 No . 246 .
, " Surely all this is very terrible . But read on : — ' James Thomson ( Mr . Wallace ' s Bleaching , Scouring , and F of inishing these work Works and for
nep Cott hew ons of and the Woollens owner . , B In urnbank summer , Glasgow some of . )— the ' I hands am manager work occasionally from s , six summer A . M . to twelve several p times . m . ' ( ei . gh Three teen hours days ) we e the worked whole twenty week h throug ours each h ; we day . The this ages last Observe these of the
g irls mos mere t of children our girls . ) ' The from stove ten -rooms to eig in hteen which . ' ( they work are in ages winter —some heated up much tolOO hi _Q or her 110 ° ; t in ted summer bthe the heat witness is from in evidence 120 ° to iven 130 ° ' t ( a and subsequen at times t ver . y )
g , as . say same g page what * I feel , when not ri I g ht , bu t I t have he females been urged to work to these do it long to get a urs lot , of tha goods t 1 am finished doing . Somet in imes store they stay here all the night ieces , and then goods we make unfinished a place for Some them times to lie fourteen down
coming or upon more out g a irls of will those -room pass hot upon the places nigh t in p ipp this ing manner wet with , persp ' ter _worTc iratio i . n g , and nine theib teen hou oijothe rs , and $ wet _theoug-h with it . '—Ibid ., p . 59 , Nos . 643-645 .
" And this in the country which is energising through the world to put down slavery ! " _Alexander _Kingk— ' I work at Mr . James Young and Son ' s Bleachworks ,
A these uldhousefield , two hundre , Pollocksha d and fifty w are . There females are . Wh about en three we are hundred busy the hands number emp is abou loyed t ; of r hundred . * t * * t Sometimes t , about on twent ce a week four , on hou e shift will Thi beg has in at happened six A . M .
o nce a week on ill on an he nex for morning the last ' six ( months y- . The rs fem . ) a * les all s worh in the stoves . —Ibid ., p . 61 average , Nos . 682 , 683 .
sometimes " Elizab beg eth Henderson at one o ' clock ( Mr upon . Clark Mo ' n s Bleachfield morning , _Burnbrse and work _, Millengood sometimes . t )— ill nine We ' clok Mdiht' ( twenty hou ) and sometimes even all Monday nihtand
ocon onay ng , rs , g , ge commencing t home at six work o ' . ) ck ? Home Tuesday for four morning hours ' and ( twent out t y hereagain - t nine ht hours at The from ten next o the ' clock tim , and e of
shoul work d up com to e out eleven at six and and sometimes work the twelve regular o ' hours clock ; that n may ig . go on for a few day day we s
70 Passing Events.
70 PASSING EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/70/
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