Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-08

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Lsst Il t-.ArI. Asa
ToIAls
Reporting .ry
Sstiv. born, ~
t'E.ig4 Dosu, q
Mar I'D. y
single, III
Widows II
Having accounts In saving, ba Ks, u
About twenty pages are devoted to the re-
turns from working women, which form one
Of the most interesting portion. of the re-
port The following are few extracts A
dressmaker writes:
Il hope To SIZE the day when woman can
have better chance IN lie. when she can
share property equally With her husband, il
she has helped him earn the greater part of
It That he cannot put his property out Of
his hands to avoid taking care OF his family
Her nights oi dover he cannot trouble but il
is no good to her while ne is living. aud
holds the property. This has been
my experience in life. T.enty-three wears
ago loaned my husband $500 to 10 into
business with. He had nothing to start with.
have averaged ten hours work 10 his one
tie took all of my earnings, bought a house
and nice lot. My health failed. he put his
property out of his hands and refused to help
either wife UT child. He had everything his
own way. was obliged to apply for bill
from him in order to get any support.
There are many such cases, and | pray ~
God and our law makers that the laws may
be changed for the better; that women may
have the benefit of their hard earnings"
publishing house clerk writes;
I'VE nave three holidays year, but our
pay is taken out. If we are out an hour or
tive minutes il is taken out of our wages"
Concerning the ops ratiyes in cotton mills,
a cloth Inspector writes;
The operatives of these factories labor
some of them from year to year, and have
hardly enough to live on. But little way
from my door has lived poor family. hus-
b and. wife and three small children, the old
est fourteen years old, and the others Young
er The father has just died and the oldest
two children have been put in the mill to
detray past expenses. They have earned
s. 80 per week but have recently been cut
down 10 So %. These children should be
sent to school, and provision made for the
tamllys support. No children should he al
lowed TO work in the mill, it iniures their
systems. and shortens their lives If those
who never knew hard work, and have home
OF comfort could but 10 into the homes
and faces OF the poor. if they have hearts it
would bring tears to their eyes
A shirt collar stiicler saws
"One of the great needs of the working
people is better ventilation, The most of US
are Obliged TO work IN over heated rooms
with no pure air, only what we get from
windows, which if We obey orders. we are
not allow ed to Ven them"
A check girl in cotton mill writes:
Il have 10 fault to ii d Have worked in
this mill twelve years, my business being to
CHECK and keep account of all cloth woven,
and write for and assist the 0verseer an |
section hand as they may require ] pre-
vipuslv WORKED Nv years as a weaver NV
wora here is aot ha:d The pay is good r
the labor required. All are pleasant n d |
think 1t molei miil. ,rr 1a;Grai, =, 70
Tired II ear my tiIfir daill htyai a.,er
seventeen years of constant work be il ever
SO hight, tut that is no sufficient cause for
srumbiing One ipiaginar, trouble often
makes US forget thousand real mercies
As whole mink We are cuntanted and
happy as our individual dispositions si!l al
low.
= starter up In mill Il years Old writes
There are four little girls, p ecers on fine
htilng, and four on coarse filling in our mill.
We work fifteen minutes, AMI then rest five
minutes tor the b0hhius 10 yet full The
md put on EN- " ones, on which l,tle warn
has been "oand. We frequently 20 out in
tle yard 10 nun aGd play durin. the Ave
NIT ut rs and when !: IS Time u come in, the
boss torcr calls us.
\ lu,set glri IN a shirt factory writes.
II Imnk that weekly payments wonli he
An improvement Oh the sYsten employed
here where oar wages are also subjected 10
.ea per cent discount, which, iced TO the
interest Accumulated upon The monthly Earn
lng-, IL source OF income to the manu-
facturer at the exps nse of the employees.
vamper in the shoe shop says:
II think my condition would be greatly
improved if they did not keep so much help
on the work, | have been IN the factory
since 1871 and there are six months at time
that ! do not get fall weeks work
A shoe stitcher writes;
81 think there should be other means for
ventlating rooms besides opening windows
In winter. if windows are opened, the air ia
apt 10 draw in causing one to take cold be-
sides all the windows except two or three
are provided with storm windows in winter
thus preventing all ventilation
RELIEF FOR EMPLOYEES IN DISTRESS
In order to ascertain what, if any, or.
gained plans of relief for sick and injured
employees had been adopted by railroad ar d
o.her corporations employing large numbers
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