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IiOWEI/L AND ITS OPERATIVES. 337
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Two Hundred Years Ago, The Fawtuckets, A...
absences are obtained without loss of _j ) ay . There are from four to six holidays per year , when the mills do not run .
' WAGES . .. Learners receive from their commencement , one dollar per week
, beside their board . The wages of job hands vary according to the amount of work done . Each is required to have charge of a
certain number of machines , but at times some tend more for the increased pay . This is always voluntary . Some girls earn three
and four dollars per week , clear of board , but the average pay of females is two dollars per week beside board , without extra work ;
that of males , eighty cents per day . The payments are regularly made on a certain day each month , and in current money . In no
one case has either of the corporations deviated from this practice , however _dejDressed may have been the condition of manufacturing
business . From the commencement of operations to the present day , no operative has lost a penny of her wages by non-payment .
Over one million seven hundred dollars are annually paid for labour by the corporations .
REGULATIONS . On entering the employment of either company , the person
receives a printed copy of the following : — facturing Regulat Company ions to be , in the erved Factories by all . persons employed by
Manuemp 1 . loye Every d under Overseer him are is required so . to be punctual himself , and see that those 2 . lo The Overseers under them may when , at their there discretion are sufficient , grant leave hands of absence in the room to those to spare
empye , not supp 3 allowed l All y their to place grant are ; but leave required when of there absence to observe are unless not the sufficient in regulations cases spare of absolute hands of the , necessit they room are y in .
which . they persons are employed . They are not allowed to be absent from their and work then without they are the required consent to of send their hini Overseer word of , excep the cause t in of case their of sickness absence . ,
Comp 4 z . All any p , ersons and give are information required to at board the in Counting one of the Room boarding where houses they board of the , when 5 . They they are begin required ; and whenever to conform th to ey the change regulations their boarding of the hous place e . in which
they 6 . They board . are expressly required to be in their boarding houses as early as 10 o ' clock , m ., unless in to rare remain cases out , when later leave for valid may be and given to them by
the 7 . keeper The Comp of the any house will , not employ any person , who is known proper to be reasons habitu- . _all 8 y absent All from public entering worshi into p the on the loyment Sabbath of . the Compare
considered . as persons engaged to work twelve emp months , if the Company any require , their services 9 . All so persons long . intending to leave the employment of the Company , are
to engagement give two weeks with the ' notice Comp of any their is not intention considered to their as fulfilled Overseer unless ; and their they teomply with this regulation .
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_IiOWEI / L AND ITS OPERATIVES . 337
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/49/
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