New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-06
TIKI WRONGS or WOMEN, AND A
REMEDY.

ard the return Is small-too small In many
cases TO command the commonest comforts
of life. Ofthe.e facts we take In illustra-
tion tae following extrac: from TIE Pt'sa-
dcipaia Bulledn:
"a gentle nxa Who had been deputsd to laqeire Into
the cono tisn Of hs eisss Of operatives i0ua1 one OF
the rost expert Of them working from ave oeloc< "a
lie morLips Until eleven a. nlsot Iss ea,n,sg ooy
about hrse dollars week Out q this, shs oac 20 p-y
dollar and bali for board leaving Q sin'iI smoaas
for fuel clothing and ali other exSensss HsF con1i-
Ton kopever as comps ed with ihs OF her el1lf gen.
srsljy va1 ore q opGencs. The usual earnings we're
but two dollar, a week which, respectable 0osrt
could be rad n1Vhsrs for lsss than dollar aod saif
IN ozlr fffy cs1ts fJv sroytAiHg tst TEE o1r1rg
houses az this price are Of tae poorer
sIvsvs uosone and unhealthy, and lot unfrequenty In
yIle y. ienbcrhoods With such positive and tmu5dtaie
e1s T. coptsnc WITH WHIST wonder that 40 many nee
dIepomea take he wages Of sinf
"Amopg tae cases brought - light In seT YORK Wal
,bAt n an iuteli. ent sud Skul drs,smaker, wto was
found In the garret Of chesp boarding hgu's, out nj
work aud rsduosd 20 sct sfrais y a se had actually
passtd r1 hing BIZ As- ..rf AID M aAeSS1 rl,ai'
- mir % 1TeeYt bread Nor such distances unrs
opept The small remuneration which these work
women receive kegs them living from hand 10 mouth,
20 that In Of sickne,s or scarcity Of WORK iy are
sorcin1 In ihOG!lg Etlhout erllH
That this. and far more than this. is
true. no one who knows anything Of this
City can doubt. Hundress and even thou
sands of females fnd 1t almost impossible
TO earn the means Of obtaining bread. 1t
j. proposed TO remedy this. in part, By
opening boarding houses where 4" for low
sum good accommodations can be furnished
70 poor needIewomen, an enterprise de-
-ervIDc of all comnendation, and to which
we shall most cheerfully lend our aid. But
IL we would correct the eyil-if we woald
make any permanent improvement in the
condition of the sex IN our cities, and
throughout the country-we must endeavor
to eradicate the causefor the existence of
this state Of things.
That cause is to be found In the fictthat
We wilfully shut out from among ourselves
Thousands of modes Of employment for ie-
male labor. Let any Of our readers visit
the chops Of this and neighboriug cities,
and let him see that their counters are
everywhere covered with the products of
the cheap female labor of Europe, and LET
him then studyth the condition Of those cheap
laborers, " it'll whom our women are COM
pelled to compete. and he will be at no loss
to account for the fact that so many of our
women are forced to live on "the wages Of
sin" Let him read the following para
graph from The London Daily Neps, Just
received, in relation TO the condition of the
poor women of that city engaged in the
manufacture of artificial flowers:
at sn remember great improvements sIOco wont
Ito the trade very young girl, bosTeeO ; and IS
years ago / can hardly say now the improvement
came W; Il seemed 20 come eTaiually es employers
d moro and particular, but rdyes hare not tn
Prortd and can hardly u ders,and way that is Wnen
had been year Ia the business, and mi father paid
81 10 have Instructed In some branches, bus be-
rsye tbAtt seldom done now. could max H. q nfei,
but iss year only 10 and irhe7 rork - slGst, only
az somstlmes have been forced 10 sit idle for yuree
weeLs stah me, ard nothing ba Iass nothing 70
kiat tor DOg~ MtHSs hare 70 PIT Up uih
"O.yes hope most OF The young womes In the trade
well corducledi bur some ara not well Conducted
Voc there 10 douht some even 60 10 distance 10 go
into tks strstts rseH 'orks bod
"Thereis gusr price fixed Tor making the hoTer
no Iilg abcf tcgts; rs not likely romeE con. W. are
helpless Act ESg.
"Amsplnths businesses slated wllh perfect truth that
he could am day get hfty or hundred girls TO work At
the fower nahirs for 81 m3aits for n0fl'
irs merely for iLstruotion, o. for 1 Nek. Wheu
tie "insruciion Of such giIs-some oil them children
q years Of s2e-ceaies they have acquired Only
II schsbca portion Of the craft the putting together OF
the IrrAyS or SONS easy work Ia addition, and wncn
tholr services no longer reqahed ID, are nc.Pa
e ~ L. bona ~
the better sort. e they ara orphans or 1t drunken
Parents 10 too oen the cssa esye Ignorant girls TO
support themselyes In all perhsps but share OF The
pai en slusd room what are the poor creatures 10
Gof
one girl received only ps my ,pray from Eissrss'
fro sJ7ags a DAY beng her most production Another
gin q IS had resk for long A9lTsi nd her sister
a girl Of 10 but l. retki,. All thu btd payment and
losyfy dire girls 10 Sp courses, no fewer than three
haunting the streets runnnc from Snthned TO Hllborn
HILL and hOlborn hill also. Don't talk, sid one oil
ihese girls her mother Il caAt lire AID cont SGTce
on sttk
al 10 not easy 10 mceriAln the number Of fjver.
maker, IN London of the two classes. Tceysre very
numerous the sale being most extensive both for the
country ard town trade. one wareh0nscmsn In the
VT oleIae business put them a. GOO another al JcJ
Perhaps the number, large as seems Is nol Tar from
, 500 One purchaser In q Wholesale way thou ht he
knes 30 people who employed 30 hands each when
busy OF 30 hands Tee earnings of the better sort
the sack ssson being the latter part Vi the summer and
the euO again OoiOre
from 10 10 week. but nearer to q In toe y weeks
Tie pco-sr eo,s from al tAs Gee0Iais y.esued Do
er,rss, AID navy Eli P'a ttai ussAig aeerass AZ
only
We beg our readers to observe that We
have here evidence of steady decline In
the rate Of wages in England, precisely in
accordance with the thousands of cases al
ducedi in Mr.. Mayhew's work onthe condi-
ton Of London Labor and London Poor, to
which we would refer such Of them as desire
to arrive at perfect understanding of the
condition of the working women Of Eng
land. Next, We would ask them to remark
that the persons whose wages are thus de-
clipin. because OF this determination Of
England 10 underworld the world. are those