Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-21

There are no technical schools for them.
Unlike in most other factories, the ap-
preutices of the porcelain industry soon
earn more than the so-called youthful
workmen, who are paid by the day, as
the apprentices oftentimes earn in piece
work one-half as much as the adult
turner's, painters, and decorators.
At the celebrated royal porcelain works
at Weissen, the apprenticeship lasts Blk
wears. The apprentices get at first 50 per
month with board, which gradually IN
creases until it reaches SIS, and is given
according to the skill displayed by the
recipients. The apprentices have to at
tend a drawing-school connected with
the establishment, where there are three
teachers of drawing and one OF modellng
The instruction is given free OF charge,
and lasts from one to three years, ac'
cording to the requirements OF the ap-
prentices.
On the whole there was an increased
employment of women in the factories
during the year. In the cities OF AK ia
Chapelle and Burtscheld, at the close
OF the year, there we're 7,54S females EN-
ployed in the factories, 4,750 in the textile
factories, 994 in factories making sewing
needles, Az in the cigar factories ard
327 in other branches OF industry. VI
these women quite a number live so lar
from their places of work that
many of them get home but once
week, and are from home
from Monday morning to Saturday night
They largely sleep at night in their work
dresses in the factories; in the work
rooms on the cloth, or even upon the
loose wool and such things, which, the
inspector remarks, is to be decidedly
disapproved of, as well from sanitary as
from moral considerations.
A much more unsuitable sleeping place
the inspector found in cloth factory, In
the county of Aix-la-Chapelle, where the
female operatives had a room whose
door could not be closed, containing tive
double beds and partly filled with empty
and filled carboys for acids and variety
of other things, which, in consequence
of loose flooring, let in the fumes from a
dyeing-room below. On the other hand,
other factories sre said to have provided
exemplary sleeping accommodation ior
their employees.
The length of the time worked re-
NAMED pretty much the same as for a
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dori district the factory operatives get. as
rule, from one hour to an hour and
half for rest at midday, and from a
quarter to half an hour in the forenoon
and afternoon.
Strikes were rare and were mostly
made for increased wages. Relations
between employers and employees are
generally good or satisfactory, and even,
in some cases, patriarchal.
The working people, taken as whole,
are badly housed. In general there is a
great lack of suitable tenements for them,
and over-crowding in miserable old
buildings is the rule. During the year
number of manufacturers put up dwell
ing houses for their people, which are let
to them free of rent or on advantageous
terms; but this is done, am inclined to
think, rather at small, out-of-the-way
places, to attract laborers, than in popu-
lated centers. In some cases employers
crowded their work people together in
their houses and compelled two or more
families to live together in one large
room i Boston Commercial Bulletin.