Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-09
The Labor Question.

THE INVESTIGATION BY THE SENATE COMMIrTEE
CONTINUED TO-DAY.
The examination OF Mr.. Frank T. Foster al
Cambridge, Mass, was continued this morning
before the Senate committee on education and
labor at O'Clock. MIR. Foster said that most OF
the tenement houses in the manufacturing cities
OF Massachusetts, were owned by the mill owners
and that the lessees were compelled to furnish sc
many operatives. The houses are generally small
ill-ventilated and uncomfortable, and the opera.
tives are compelled to live in the COMPANIES
houses or be dismissed. The sewerage and sani
tary facilities are terribly bad, and summer nights
the stencil from the cesspoOlS Is nearly overpoyv.
er1ng.
THE FRENCH CANADIANS
are to New England what the Chinese are to Call.
fornia and the Pacific coast. Their morals arr
lower their necessities fewer, and their only aim
seems to be to zee how much money they can ge,
10 take out OF the country. They do not wish
their children to attend school, and when com.
PEELED to send them often move to another pIace
population of 1863 in fhirty.tWo cities in Nou
England only 6,996 are natur0lzed and 285Q nro.
performers. Mr. Foster spoke strongly againsl
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN OF aRNDER YsARs
In Massachusetts, there is q law against tbe
employment in mills Of children under ten wears
of age, and that those from ten to fourteen mus,
attend school thirteen weeks In the year. Th1,
law does not include the uttle cash boys and Girls
These little ones are not Old enough in many casas
to be out from under the eye Af mother and are
here employed during the bury season from & a m m
until and 10 pm. The weafy look of these 1iftie
ones toward the close OF their days work is truly
pitiful
THE GIRLS HMPLoYKD As SHOP woMRH
are paid on an average OF abouts2 so per week and
out OF this they are expected to board themseve,
andprovide for all thenecessities life and to dress
themselves we'll Society demands that they shonld
Dovirtuous; yet with the meager stipend received
and the snares often thrown around them nv
those over them, it = not q Wonde,
that many fall The firms Of Jonion
Marsh & Co and Macullar, Wiliams 4 Co. al
Boston, are shining exceptions 70 most firms. The
rent value Of which year, in which thei,
employees can meet In s0ctAl way, use as read.
ing room, or give dancing parties In. Over a Yea,
ago this nrm established afund, to which each
week each employe contributed very small sum.
Last summer they all drew lots, and the LUCKY
ones went 70 europe under the direction Of 3
THE CONDITION or Tnx NILE GIRLS
is to be deplored. Away nom home influences
and restraints, thrown often among those de.
praved. OF both sexes, IN llow t6nement houses
what wonder b 1t that their morals are too often
low9 ~ speak advisedly,r aa3d ltr Foster. ssthai
the city OF L0wen. Mass, s109e presents Wide
neid TOT pni.ansntopic nnstp Mot nefs is more need
palaces tor decayed q isrSs "
sums 70 Harvard college IarSp S2rides have beer
made In Boston toward &yinS g. ~ WoF4inr nerysis
the benent Of art gailer1ie an6 fanes 81 open:
1ng them on sunday
e Tostsrs eralninassoa M = continued 70.