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CO-OPERATION OF NEEDLEWOMEN. 75
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Amongst Young 1 Women Tlie Laboring Empl...
6 . That no needlework be done on Sundays and great festivals . 7 . That all be paid each week before any wages are paid ,
viz . house-rent expenses ( proportion for a week ) , coals and candles ( ditto ) , washing , ( ditto ) , interest ( ditto ) , taxes ( ditto ) , a small sum for
medical attendance and replacement of furniture , & c . ( which sum . should be placed in a savings' bank ) , also the cost of subsistence ,
i . e . 8 bread . That , me the at workwomen , & e . be divided into classes , receiving different
wages according to ability . That the mistress and her assistants should each receive a fixed salary , and that after the above-named
payments have been made , the surplus should be paid over to the associates in equal proportions .
9 . That no credit be given . I have made a calculation of profits , and I believe , from what I
know of the prices paid to dressmakers in London and Paris , that an establishment of twenty-two workwomen of tried ability would be
sufficient to provide the entire cost of house-rent , living , & c . & c , and to allow to each of the workers 10 s . ( at least ) per -week , and if such
were the case , a portion of that sum ought to be deducted , and placed each week in a savings' bank for their benefit .
The mistress would be charged with the moral and religious instruction of the girls . They ought to have prayers every day , be
conducted to church on Sundays and great festivals ( on which account it would be desirable , if possible , that all the community should
belong to one religious denomination ) ; as they -would have leisure for improvementthey would be expected to read , or hear reading ,
, during It would a portion be of each to evening allow . them some recreation but unfor-;
tunately the recreations necessary enjoyed by girls of the working classes generaEy lead to evil , as they go to them alone , or in improper
company To remed . this evilit is to be desired that the mistress or her
assistants should y at convenient > opportunities accompany the young London girls on cheap where excursions they miht into spend the several country hours , or to very the profitabl parks , if y in in
exercise , or other inno g cent amusements . They might also visit , picture The - great galleries desi and of museums such an . association as that now sketched out
is to elevate the character gn of the working classes , and to enable the young and the wom means en when of still they further marry improving to become and useful refining members the of manners society ,
and morals of the generation which is to succeed them . In addition to these independent industrial associations , others
affiliated 1 . A training to them mi school ght be for formed workers . , supported by contributions
from persons not belonging to the working class . 2 An infirmary for sick members of the industrial associations .
. 3 . An office of registration for women in want of employment , t 2
Co-Operation Of Needlewomen. 75
CO-OPERATION OF _NEEDLEWOMEN . 75
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/3/
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