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OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. 55
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_ Paris, February 17th, 1862. Ladies Wit...
houses vegetables liave as been parsley sortie , kidney months -beans , shalots leted , and and pot thirty -herbs families . These are
comp , - mow of the installed comfort in and them the , un cleanliness der circumstances they enjoy that notwithstanding ensure a continu * anc the e
number of the inhabitant s- * M . Dupont alway , s says that he has , unlike landlords generally who let rooms to operatives and their
of families which , he nothing is so j to ustl comp y proud lain , of to ; the and fact attributes that all the tlie tenants happy results belong ,
to the same establishment , _aiid have a direct interest in making word partner everything of a in it go , and on enj as as smoothl such ing such a y sharer as a reputation possible in its ; each profits as the being . founder To a doubt bond of fide this the
very Parisians successful person themselves scheme oy . , But would for the be benefit to surpass of those in scep who ticism do not the
know him either personally or by reputation , it may be added that he is so perfectly satisfied with the practical working of his
organisation ouvriereand so earnest in completing it , that he has ordered p lod lans gings to be for drawn two _, families for sevent , and y havin other g workmen two gardens and ' s have ho attached u each ses , containing to interest them .
in Men the , wom industrial en , and children are all which included M _, , Dupont has so an happily inaugurated and carried programme out . He is furthermore of opinion that
numerous trades will admit of such ' an organisation as he has p answers lanned the and obj executed ections made ; but against none better the printing than printing trade bein . g He thrown also
. frames open to would women suffer on sanitary were they ground employed s , and about the injury printing their premises delicate ,
by appealing as usual to some very striking fact . From 500 to of 600 whom people are are women employed and not in the one Imprim of the erie latter Dupont have at hitherto Clichy , com 104
-plained of increased , physical weakness , or the , atmosphere in which they sitors work but . M As Dupont yet , females has decided have not upon heen making hired there an alteration as compo in
this respect ; in . his ateliers . No sensible diminution of wages has in establishment consequence of the which introduction however of is women so organised taken , p that lace in were this they model to
receive less wages ; for , their work , than the men employed beside Dupont them A , M it . Guirandet would and answered be , made a master not up onl to printer them M . Armand in at tlie Neuill form Levy y , of followed but dividends the objections M . . Paul
, y , . put admitted forward as memb by the ers societ of the y of lc tr typograp ade . " hers In the against first place women , they being said ,
it would be impossible to regulate new tariffs of wages , were female printers delegates to , or become men generall elected y b emp y women loyed , , as to they join would in tlieir not d admit eliberations female . d sufficient
. trade Secondl apprenticeshi would y , that be p , when dismissed those female now , because enj compositors oying women a _monoiDol would would have y , on of serve account the printing of the
Our French Correspondent. 55
OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT . 55
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/55/
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