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WOMEN COMPOSITORS. 89
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After Controversy ; The Arose Meeting . ...
port inadequate _criminately of such to , whether dependents meet the their real is necessaril relations burden y in borne distributed life by require such to it as all or have men not indis , these it is
_-> said It dependents has been asserted . that the " keynote to the emp . loyment of
women and is remunerative cheap labor !" field — -that for while the emp the loyment professed of women cry is to , the open real a : new
concerned object It is is not to necessary lessen further the to cost denial give of this production than statement that . which , so far is found as the in printing the fact is any
_ithat according tlie wages , to the _with paid men " ' to s a recognised clicker the compositors " to scale each . at The companionshi the women Victoria work p , Press and together they are in companies
write their bills , on the same principle and are paid at the same rate of At having as present in no men women the ' s offices Victoria of . the Press standing is laboring of journeymen under ; the the disadvantage which compositors
receive have to apprentices serve an apprenticeshi ' wages , which p , of thoug four h years not , large during , are still good they to the women receive in most industrial
employcompared wages ments "When . signing These wages the indentures differ according of one to of the my amount first apprentices of work done , her . to that
instead father btlie , who of iece fixing is himself two a - weekly thirds a journ of salary _eyman their the print earnings apprentices er , suggested , according should be me to paid the
than until Compositors y the -that p sixth of ' Scale , boy seventh , apprentices ( English prices , of as , their ) they which apprenticeshi seldom is indeed , receive hig p her , whereas two payment -thirds it
which is paid time at the no remuneration or Victoria Press year is g after iven , the but first a premium six this months of ten , pounds during
required to effective stimulate than for exertion the that instruction of an and established to received make weekl each . I y think apprentice wage ; it is feel system more that likel more she y
_Bducaijion is earns not more correct sufficient or to less suppose knowled ac , cording ge that to of printing her manuscri attention pt simp and ly and punctuation require industry s a , . fair and It
that Tlie all difference else , is simp between le manipulation a good printer . and a bad one , is than rather in
in the _tlie knowled quality of of mind the work and itself the - care Take app the lied case to of the two work apprentices , , ge and
emp with loyed an equall from the good same knowled date , ge working of the at business the same ; one frame will , earn
former eighteen app shillings lies mind y a to week her and work the , the other latter onl acts y ten as a shillings mere machine . ; takes The ,
in and doing expends the work as much well time at once in . correcting But for proofs every as consideration the neither other , it is
necessary nor _voman that will make work much should of an be accidental commenced occupation early ; , taken up man to
Women Compositors. 89
WOMEN COMPOSITORS . 89
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/39/
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