Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-15

New York IN doing 80 | commence
with those who are the poorest paid
and hardest wurked-thc undergNr-
meut workers.
They earn from u 81 week up A
woman receives 30 cents "a dozen for
ehhdrens drawers, large Aze and
10 cents dozen small size She
will get 81 FOR making dozen wrap
pera, aud she cannot make more
than eight In day The shirt-mak-
ers will he organized; they work by
the piece and earn. uu the average
about 80 cents u day. The women who
attend the sewing machines, which I'M
tue large factories are run by steam, re.
ceiyc - or So Il week
Women workers In the large cities of
this country are, through the "s,yeat.
inv system, literally hcmg driven 10
physical aud moral death Not long
gincc the Central Labor union of New
York culled the attention of the Rev.
Dr. Purshurst and the society OF which
he ~ president 20 the immortality that
grows ont Of this system az ID N found
IN the eastern part of the city. Young
urls are obliged 10 work from fourteen
90 eighteen hours q day mixing button
holes, receiving never morn than 81 aud
sometimes not over 81 80 n week Is Il
strange that many such poorly-paid girls
10 To the hudy
class oi women workers IN Of the most
urgeut character. Ii was partly for
this reason that the Trade and Labor
assembly Of Chicago recently nnpoiutpd
a committee 60 make special invcstl.
HnlOn oi the subject Let ire refer To
few of the facts they discovered
Ia Chicago two girls aged rs. working
ten hours dialy for 81 80 "A week
NiA grls, working ten hours eycry
uay' SGnday included, wuges 81 10 81
lior week.
In tonement house, room l2xl4 foot
thr1 men and one woman with 4 baby
were Ut work, hours ~ labor fourteen
per day
La one miserable hovcl. the odor of
which was so had that the committee
We're forced 20 retire nc once, IA child
~ years old was one of the workers. re-
coiVinE 10 cents q week for twelve hours
work a day including sunday.
IN another place a child was employed
az % cents a week One woman ,yns
lnid y cents per dozen on pants, her
chld 10 years of age working Nith her
from ton tu sixteen hours dny. One
woman finished coats at / IL cents nnch
Attending Ia the wants OF three children.
her EARNINGS amounting 10 about 30
cents day
The broadcast doanltion that can be
gwen 90 the term sweating" A
grinding the faces Of the poor.F N
is really worse than negro slavery. be.
cause the slaves had tie advantage of
purc air and wholesome surroundings.
while the "swoaters' and their yic.
Tins occupy small filthy apartments
where every sense Of deceuoy Is out
In the sweat" shops of New York
the work rs from fourteen 60 eighteen
hours day. A furnace for hentinr
IRONS Is generally going on no fun blast,
ahu ~ the winter season the windows
are tightly closed and an chance Of es-
zane OF the foul air Il out Off Our M
spectov report that the hlthlest places
were those occupied by Italians. POrtu-
gnese aud Russian Jews.
IN Boston a law WAS lately passed
prohibiting the tenement house work
shops aud providing for better inspcc-
lion, u seems % have had some bene-
! hclal effect, as IL Is reported that many
OF such workshops have been closed,
ana that several leading busiuees
| houses have lent their aid Ia crushing
eut lhe abuse. Rut much rcmalns d
! he done aud there Is need Of moro lcgis-
lailou on tllc subject
TO enforce the law properly IN the
| city OF New York, the factory inspector
states that il win be necessary 10 In.
ciense the present force % deputy in
spsVtors.
h Illinois We shall endeayor 10 have
2 suinEept law passed on this subject.
| ana when municipal and STATE oandl.
yates are named for Office We shall se.
| cure rom them u pledge, IN advance.
! tha1 they VIII support such a measure.