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SOCIAL ANJD INDUSTRIAL. Free Labour Cott...
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Ladies It Was , Decided In The Autumn At...
I tion believe s , the that larger this tlie exhibition exhibition will -room prove and eminentl the bett y er useful its situation in encourag will ing be .
industrious women to exert their skill , and to become first-rate artificers in various arts and trades , where they are now employed in only the least skilled and worst paid departments .
It will also give encouragement to those master manufacturers who emp is loy usual women in , the by Potteries _opening to to them employ a good women market only . in For the instance coarser , thoug and least h it
remunerative sorts of china painting , there may very possibly exist some master manufacturer who has succeeded in overcoming the opposition of liis workmenand who may employ women in the higher branches ; if sohe
deserves encouragement , . , The same may be said of the watchmaking trade , of hair jewellery , as it is calledand of several other trades and manufactures .
Female , industry being artificially depressed by combinations of workmen and from other causes , some artificial assistance is required to raise it up and enable women to overcome the obstacles which at present prevent
numbers of them from earning an honest livelihood , and it seems to me that the proposed plan is likely to have a strong effect in that way , if sufficient funds are obtained to carry it out on a large scale .
I am , Ladies , yours faithfully , Jessie Botjcherett .
Office of the Society for the Employment of Women , 19 , _Langham Place .
Post-Office Orders payable to the Secretary , Miss Jane Crowe .
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[A Correspondent Asks : Are Women Thinki...
[ A Correspondent asks : Are women thinking of the Slave question ? Will any one follow my example and abstain from slave-grown produce ?
Is answer any one to the startin first g question a store for will free be - found labour in cotton Passing , sugar Events , and . — tobacco Ez > . _] ?—An
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SOCIAL ANJD INDUSTRIAL . Free Labour Cotton . —Our attention has recently been called to certain
facts It appears in relation that to very this subject superior of cotton an interesting has been and grown important and is character now growing . finest Jamaica in Jamaic yarns by a ( . the of Mr which Jamaica . Bazley we have Cotton , M . seen P ., Company has samp valued les on ) , capable Sea their -Island estate of being cotton in Jamaica spun , grown into , from the in
Exhib 3 seed s . 6 d sent . ition per out b lb . b Messrs y Some Charles . Dobson of Og the den first and , E B few sq arlow ., bags fine and -cotton were the - spun sp arn inner has at of the since Manchester International been made , at y
into nine-corded y sewing thread , and sent to , various ladies in England for trial . Wales It is universall have been y approved pleased to . accept Amongs a t few others reels , Her in order Majesty to show and their the Princess sympath of y Association
has with in the view colonists . We learn , and th their at the appreciation Company have of the 320 objects acres which of cotton this at Manehioneal a gentleman , Jamaica who , now went in hi out gh from cultivation Newcastle , and with a letter his which wife and we child have , seen to join from in
the Company ' s operations , states that the indigenous cotton of the country
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/71/
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