The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-03 00:00:00

THE "PIT-GIRLS" OF THE BLACK
DISTRICT:

The Spectator says: "The right of the 'pit-girls'
of Lancashire to work for their living, which is just
coming up before Parliament, involves a great many
more fates than their own. It is the test case, by
which, in all human probability, the right of women
to perform rough manual labour for wages and out of
doors will for a long period be decided. If the pit-
girls be defeated in the House of Commons, it will be
hardly possible to defend the women employed in
brickfields or in making nails, or in that most im-
portant of all branches of labour, outdoor field-
work. It is greatly to be regretted that when
labouring women get together in crowds, and work
hard, whether at the washtub or the coal waggon,
their talk is not ai refined as that of the draw-
ing-room ; but when we have said that and
even hostile evidence goes no further—to what does
it all amount? Merely to this: that rough condi-
tions make rough women, as they also make rough
men. The women are not unchaste because of their
roughness; not half SO much so as many women em-
ployed in what are considered feminine methods of
occupation—plaiting straw, for instance, at 9d. a day;
and not one-tenth so much so as they might be if all
labour were closed to them, and they were left to
choose between want and the sale of themselves.
The whole question is one of refinement,not of virtue;
and in this work-a-day world, which hardly produces
food for all after all have toiled, we may easily push
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