New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-26

Wages Hoayl
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Wages Hours
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; And board I and meals

The highest earnings IN the list those Of a sewing
machine operator who made sli week. working ten
hours day. Proof readers and compositors make $40
week working the former eight, the latter hours
day These girls board plainly bat comfortably for 81 10
s. a week. That class OF sewing women who work nc
home command better wages The price OF the simplest
article OF undernen, made by private hand IS cents,
aud three such be made easily In day on the ma
chine Prices range from this high $40 for days
work the average s. day OF six hours The price OF
machine stitching yard is three TO six cents depend
ing on the price OF thread used Dress makers who
out by the day private families ask = TO - day with
their meals have known higher prices gwen for care
full filters forewoman in brisk dressmakins estab-
lIshment has $40 week and upward Tie lowest price
for which any one will hnd dress made up after It "a
emf and basted is So have them done neatly
for this There was no handmade trimming the dress
beside the ounce the skirt SIS and $50 are the usual
prlces az regular dessmakers for simple street suits
The dressmakers down in the list for II day work IN
shops and are what known as hands IN business
phrase House servants command from $40 to so
month common prices. You Will hardly hnd the poorest
kind OF waiting maid for less than the first price With
their board secured the regular hours which the
right OF every city servant these privileged class
Of employees
have one confession TO record at this stage OF these
Investigations one which upset many enthusiastic no.
tons held from childhood Though there have been
"N'"~
higher wages have notseen who any suffered
for want OF them The bright faced girl on Canast who
was carrying pile Of serge shirts larger than herself
smlingy answered, when the question was carelesSy
dropped sn't 1t hard work. "No, don't thnk so.
make 81 50 a day. and have my evenings she msae
button holes for a cent apiece, The button NOES were
not large and the stitches were not Hni"J' ""s" w
have upset her philosophy
Suffering there is among these working women out u
ia vicarious, as the hardest sorrow Always Is Inc
struggle 10 for the woman who mas ola parents OF cn
dren TO support the earnings OF one Inc WHO" WIN
Ave children who only earn her eight doas aWeeh
I'm sad plIch The crust fails her sometimes ana shoes
nm the Ghost aud the alpaca grows too tender to be
Skinned an without gentlest handling Add to this, her
81 "a almost always imperfect account of the de-
- q, her children: IL must hurried on when they
or out the way hurried always II not maied
nv needless fingers These cases are douby paful on
ccount OF their hopelessness. don't know that shirt
r. worth more because It is made by the mother Of sir
children than II done by the bhc girl Of CaD1s whose
.weetheart Is waiting for her in the evening Unless
,onebody pays sn indirect bounty OH those children
heir chance life is not much better than IL they went
nto the River at o'clock every afternuau with the
,oung poodles and stray terriers from the pound the
ate volunteered TO educate the children there would be
he mothers feelingn the way, aud she would oily pre-
err separation TO starvation Oh. these chiircn' the
ggravang fractions in every prob icgn OF social me-
fany working woman looks them In despair. The
FEATURES for whom her life 10 the end nst " Tie sacf
&C. The sight Of them almost makes the fsSap turn
ociallst. They ARE elements which wiser oirs man
espsir Of reducing TO any condition in which they can
0 managed. .s8o 4
Taking the single women who support thcms'es."s
,sy to determine their just allotment. .lpcy h'e,
uple comfortable clothng the tweed or suH no's -.
antle for every day. and fresh dress Tor Do"-y
rbev want meat and tea. and SOUP which they can
u from the restaurants already established Tor
.'non n, their own prices They want few Dencs -