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399 ITS OPERATIVES
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? Boaeding Houses.
_SAVINGS BANKS . under this head be addedas they have an
intimate A The few Lowell relation figures the Saving to close the s factory Bank of the -was operatives may incorporated 1859 . from in , 5435 1829 depositors . It had ,
on months 1 , 141 deposit , 973 , which , dollars at , if . not Two withdrawn per cent interest year , in in three interest twice , months a is paid , is At added for the every to end the six of
• princi deposits every pal 5 years has , thus generall all compounding extra y been income 7 per is divided cent . , In and 1845 year the . the interest factory on g long irls
had equall The 100 City good , 000 Savings interest dollars in Bank ha this d , at more bank _tlie . close recen of tly 1860 incorporated , a still larger , and amount giving
- the of deposits princi y pal . depositors Good authority , in these states banks that ; one tne naif factory being operatives females . are at
• the A close Five of Oent 1860 Savings had on Bank deposit went more into than operation 500 , 000 in dollars 1854 , . and The , in this bank one of five cents
little i to n the 1861 g general irl , had who there made reader the but dollars first they deposit . These were not fig ure so to the y , be depositors uninteresting when ,
¦ the factories stopped , work . _COTS _TCIiTTSIOK .
of To the understand operatives full it should y tne Lowell he known factory that system they , do and not the remain condition in
- this It is emp found loyment from , for the life mo , st or reliable generall statistics y for a , gre that at the number Consequentl female of opera years - .
the tives ¦ would system do be not seen , here work were does on they an not average life present -operatives more the than , throug unfavourable \ 4 years h successive . phases genera that y - ,
of tions Many the . founders of them of are the non cit - y residents that all . should It was entire be the so , in suspension ori order ginal that intention of if , the at
smy "works time , the , there surplus should operatives be a , instead partial would of or remaining return here to the to homes suffer
. whence and be they tempte came d or , and driven whicli to , not crime depending lum , until other upon honest manufacturing employwould afford secure
ment prosperity perhaps could as , long be found as it . could a This be plan strictl asy was y enforced continued member without after for many another infring years ing of ,
upon families other princi in p this les of country humanity , and . from One other lands , eaine and at i
poor length The settled number here of forei . gn operatives , varies there at different is not above times 10 and per in millshile at some times
* the < cent differ . of forei ent gners . in W the " Merrimack , " at others there have been I
399 Its Operatives
399 ITS OPERATIVES
XX ) WELL AND ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/39/
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