The New York herald., 1875-09-27
Take tnsir weaving schedules which are the same as
ENGLISH wEAyisc SCHEDULE.

16xl0, and taking the dollar at os ou Ehkhsh
money the price in American currency should be thirty
cents cut while our people insist that twenty-lour
cents is the best they can pay IL seems that II now
S77 06 for every 100 cuts, which contain 3oo
pounds II OF twist and 26S pounds IL ounces
Of SOS weft Allowing for everything outside OF the
gentlemen who walk the mills as ornaments, we ngure
1t at $64 95 per 100 showing that $l2 is paid on
every 100 cuts 10 unproductive hands While TINS re-
can't compete with the mills OF Lancashire,
and but for tariff English goods OF make would
flood the market as their fancy goods do as you can see
by every females dress in the street. Our mills have
been mismanaged wasteful; too much machinery
has been entrusted 70 operative, re-
ducng the quantity and quality Of the goods that 1t
is capable OF producing corporations have locked up
their capital in unproductve real estate; shortsghted
speculation has burdened legitimate concerns with
debts, and schemes have carried away the real capital
which accounts readily for the loss of dividends"
AMONG THE OPERATIVES IN THE CORPORATION
TENEMENTs-How THEY LIVE AND WHAT
THEY LIVE oN-ABUsE OF cAPTTALIsTs-THK
FEELING REGARDING THE NEW "AdREE-
MENT."
FALL RIVER, Mass, Sept. 25, 1875.
Evidently the manufacturers here have raised up q
OF hornets by their agreement or by what
may rather be called their declaration of prnc-
pies 1t is difficult to deal with the operative when
he is work and in good humor but he is a difficult
being to drive when he is hard up and hungry. For
two years past he has not been well treated In
Fall River He has suffered from the fluctuations Of tho
markets than the employer because, pro rata,
every reduction has fallen heavily upon him. His
house rent and his provisions cost him as much when
he earns SO week as when he can make $12 He
the quality Of clothing poor though it
may be- in bad or prosperous times. He has for the
most part family averaging from three to eight, SO
that the best have previously shown, he has but
poor chance to much even when his wages reach
$12 $13 week.
CORPORATION TRNEMENTs
10 caIlt1 AOA
these male and female spnners and carders at
their tenements desirous of ascertainng how far
the statements for and against their mode OF life
were true The manufacturers have prded them
! selves the assumption that the operatives were
| better of here than in other mill districts;
that the providing of separate tenements for each
family tended to create a homo feeling; that
while the crowding system at Lowell has tendency To
lead young persons to immortality, here the fact Of
man having his family in q house with the single,
boarders induced him to maintain certain respecta
bility They also claimed that under their system
single could board and lodge for So so per week.
young men for SIS So with comfortable families,
cheaper and better than they could possibly obtain else
where But they do not say that young and young
women live together in tenemonts where there
such restraining influences as the respectable heads OF
families exert and herein they are, to certain extent,
either deceived or deceivers.
SPECIMEN.
entered tenement sx-and- a half street. belong
ing believe to the Troy Mills. There
in the house. three the first. three the second
| floor so arranged that the two
though originally there had been but of the
same width as the front room The frame of the place
was so cracked that you could through it in two
places, in front and the left hand side you
| enter. AS entered, the stencil was sickening Tho
front was twelve feet by foureen the two rear
rooms slightly half these dimensions, as the stair
that led TO the second floor took of three feet
of the lower front room
The ceiling but six feet from the floor, and as
dirty the floor which stood. There a large
the ROOM exceedingly rusty in parts and
greasy in others. No carpet on the noor. A low,
window covered with dirty cups and dishes and few
scraps Of black bread On two chairs at the side of tho
staircase stood huge washtub half filled with linen
In the bedroom, to the right low wooden settle
bed part Of the bedcothes being dragged the baro
floor. piece of looking glass, in the shape of a
triangle, standing on black mantel piece This
constituted the furniture of the apartment In the bed
room, to the left old oaKen square bedstead about
threequarter size, was the only luxury observable
looking Irish sat in frons Of the uncleared
breakfast table in the act Of nursing well grown child.
With her sat young Three ragged little chill
dren ran the to show the mother pieces
Of cake which had been given to them by some kind
siOh and it's poor place you've come to- said tho
woman, she hastily put the child into the lap Of her
companion ION The man man is away nH now as you 1 see
life, but manage to keep my four babies from tho
| ovSrseers"
dirty faced boy and two girls, who had neither shoes
nor garments that the arabs OF the Five Points
| would TO don.
!; ]'What is your nameY" asked.
! f'Kitty Shannon" said she after some hesitation
"How much do you pay month for your apart
awe pay seven dollars"
''Do you all sleep in those two rooms?"
''Yes, certainly: we have other place. said sne,
though had imagined she was luxurious enough to
expect anything better
What can your husband month ~
s'When he is working he from thirty five to
thirty eight dollars"
''What do you get nowP'
''Faith, it is difficult thing to say But for some
kind crachers that help us with food think we'd often
get nothing You see when | take home my washing
| get little dishes for the children"
Il mean how much money do you now" re-
peated.
dollars make by my washing"
'How, then, do you pay your rentS"
With the money make, OF course. II didn't pay
I'd be put INTO the street mighty quick. !"
Seeing that could ascertain the financial condition
times, ehY"
'The devil cent, sir, assure you. 1t took all we
made to live dacenty."
''what do you think it costs for you to live nowP
at can't cost more than 81 week, for that's all
| get, and have paid a months rent out of this
here was case of woman capable of paying 81 a
month and sustaining family of four in her husbands
absence (who was looking for work elsewhere) an
| income OF $l6
| next went to the Union tenements Seventh and
Eighth streets, of the upper floors were sim
ply wretched In many of these the stafcases leading
! TO the second story the outside and so made
that small connecting gallery landing is con-
structed to mako the staircase do for houses
Beneath this staircase OF the house entered was
pile of putrid garbage. A dark visaged woman, with
thick matted hair, resembling Indian stopped me on
the landing and demanded to know my business.
You'll ind my mon there, said she, pointing to a
dirty pine door.
The man, queer looking, dark haired individual was
sitting the floor with boot his knees, which no
endcavorng to mend with all the science of Cris-
pin.
II have called to see if you ready go to work
on Monday said | put a small notebook into
my pocket At this lie and said with all the keen
ness OF Silas Wcgg,
II suppose you've no objecshuns to my seems the
docimuntyn His dialect was more pleasant than his
general manner for he scowed threateningy as closed
| my coat
Noal II can see un I'll never sign un that's sure
! explained that had no document; but had merely
called to ask the question He then sat down again and