being paid to an immense number of the adult
workers of the country.

I have spoken with women in Whitechapel who
receive right along less than 25 cents for a twelve-
hour day in the coat-making sweat shops; and with
women trousers finishers who receive an average
princely and weekly wage of 75 cents to $??i.

A case recently cropped up of men, in the employ
of a wealthy business house, receiving their board
and $1.50 per week for six working days of sixteen
hours each. The sandwich men get 27 cents per
day and find themselves. The average weekly
earnings of the hawkers and costermongers are not
more than $2.50 to $3. The average of all com
mon laborers, outside the dockers, is less than $4
per week, while the dockers average from $2 to
$2.25. These figures are taken from a royal com
mission report and are authentic.

Conceive of an old woman, broken and dying,
supporting herself and four children, and paying
75 cents per week rent, by making match boxes at
4-5 cents per gross. Twelve dozen boxes for 4??
cents, and, in addition, finding her own paste and
thread ! She never knew a day off, either for sick
ness, rest, or recreation. Each day and every day,
Sundays as well, she toiled fourteen hours. Her
day s stint was seven gross, for which she received
3i| cents. In the week of ninety-eight hours work,

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