The weekly examiner., 1891-01-17
rhs 1fsrrDrs cf swsszaae.

The HorTufs Of Gmea44m&s
 Every reader has heard of the '4sweat- ing system, but no one can realize what it b unless he of she has seem it in operation. I have heard Of it only in connection with the manufacture of clothing, which Aourishes in the -dirtiest and meanest and most poverty stricken section of the east side. The wayfarer in the streets abutting on the east side of the Bowery, where the popnlati0nais densest and the inhabitants and their surroundings the f1thiest, can hear at almost every hour of the day and night week days and Sundays, the whir of the sewing machine in the tenement houses.
 The stsweater" is usually a man who has been long enough in this country t0 acquire sufficient money to purchase few sewing machines. He knows he can get any number of ignorant male and female immigrants to do the work at his prices, and he never hesitates to take advantage of their poverty and igno. rance, which he turns to his own advan- tage. He pretends to pay his hands stipulated wages, but imposes task, to accomplish which requires continuous work for twelve or fourteen hours and more a day. el
 He uses his apartments in a vile tene- ment for his work rooms, and all the functions of family life are performed in three or four craznped rooms, in many of which I have seen score of men and women, half clad, at work. The garments are piled on floor, bed and ta- bles. The rags are usually foot deep, for there is no time for cleanliness. Every sanitary law IS violated and the health of the operatives is never consid- cred. Disease of every kind stalks through the district, but is unheeded in the desire to make money, and there is no doubt that the germs of all sorts of diseases are transmitted throughout the land in the garments made in the dsnsr of the sweaters.
 The labor leaders have time and time again started agitations against this sys- tenn of tenement house work; it's evils and miseries have been written about m the newspapers Put still it exists. The only power to break it up,is that of tho manufacturers, and. it does not seem to suit their purposes to interfere either. on behalf of the public whose. health is at stake or of the poor benighted creatures whose necessitiesa force them to accept such reyolting Tconditions.-J. T. Mo Kechnie in New York Press.
 --sz4<<-zS---
 Boz7ed Down
 The gentleman who has charge of the labor column of The New York Evening World mixes some gems of thought with his news items Here are some samples, taken aBrandom:
 All earnest agitators feel tito be their duty to create sense of dissatisfaction among the laboriag classes, as discon- tent is the only incentive to make the
 We have reached the point in this country where the condition of all classes of workmen- gficu1turai, mechanical and unskilled begin to feel the pressure that is bearing them down, but do not realize what the power really is
 While labor organizations have ac- complished much in ame1iorating the condition of thefawprkingmen through organization, themain lever that mnst ultimately lift them out of serfdom has remained unused. That lever is the bak lot box. 8szxs
 Without bureans of labor statistics the labor movement would not have one tenth part of the ammunition of fact and argument wherewith to demnlish the sophistries of the Hunkeys offcapital- ism who from pulpit and desk attempt to controvert the logic of political econ omy. ic dzG
 Between the tyears 1870 and. 1880 the number of children employedl at pro ductive industxiesc in this country in- creased 58 per cents, while the. number of grown persons increased lbut 24 per cent. Over 64speEr4cent. of the whole number of childretf ht work had not at- tended school twenty weeks i'm any one year. ss.s.>I s-.93:
 It is not many years since labor unions were sneered at, that leaders denounced as demagogues,ands the, rank and file scoffed at by the awiseacres. Rnt a won drous transformation has, been brought about, all in few abort years-because the unions have become 8 power; and yet, the power pf ean the hundreds of thousands of organized workmen will be naught when compared with the power of but three men Vandarbilt, Gould and Astor-as long as. the workers ab- stain from using their powsr politically.
 K. of L. Miners RnsFA<ed.
 The miners assemblies of the Knights are preparing for the general strike in May for eight hours. A prominent IL ~IT IA