New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-19
POVERTY'S SCANTY WAGES
LAST WEEK MOTHER. DAUGHTER AND
HUSBAND MADE s2T.

TESTIMONY OF LUCIA MACHIARuTO BEFORE THE
swEATsIlop COMMITTEE CIGARS MADE IN
TENEMENT HOUSES ARE OF INFERIOR
QUALITY THE COMMITTEE TO
MAKE A PERSONAL INvEsTidA'
TIoN ON THIN EAST SIDE
The committee appointed by the Assembly 10 In
yestgnta tho swoatHhop system or thls city mot
again yesterday morning In tho Adofinen's chnm-
her ely Hail. The committee expects to meet
every week during tho summer. Julius NJ. Mayer.
who ID conducting the examination for tho commit
tee. WAS early on hand He was surrounded by n
crowd OF little children from the East SIDE all OF
whom work In sweatshops. The first witness
called was David Davis. shoe manufactures, No.
al East Flfty-nlnth-st. lie said he employed
about forty people In his factory.
'You have boy named John Fitzgerald in your
employ" asked Mr.. Mayer.
Eyes, sir"
what Is his age?"
IL think he Is about fourteen years old"
Asked If he knew how old boy or girl should be
before being employed In factory, he said he did
not. being green hand in the business, having be-
gun only lately Davis said he did not know any
thing about the factory laws. and did not know the
scale OF wages paid In the factory. John Aoysius
Fitzgerald a boy about fourteen years DID, said
he worked for David Davis, and got 81 80 week
He said his employer was kind to him.
Lucia Machiaruto an Italian woman. who lives at
No. . Crosby-st., said she worked for A. Newman. OF
No. l51 Essex-st., and was hnsher OF Knee
pants" With assistance she could make from % to
81 a week When her daughter and her husband
helped her they made at the utmost s. a week; but
they had to work from o'clock In the morning I'M
til | and 2 O'Clock the next morning The witness
produced a book and showed Mr.. Mayer an entry
showing that her daughter mad earned only 81 q one
week Last week the three OF them earned ~ a.
She has three children and husband, ana pays 20
a month for two rooms.
Austela Tampole No. So Thompson-st.. who also
worked for Newman pants finisher." sewing
on buttons and making seams. said she worked from
6 O'Clock in the morning until 10 and II o'clock at
ter-in-law and my husband. work together. and We
make about IS a week My little daughter fourteen
years S, W Sds member Of the firm of Har
burger H9man CO. h OF
prices ''The tenement-house workers said he.
worked in the factory He said they had to work
sSq H IN the Tm aeo xdph
a member of the firm OF Sverthal Co, who testi-
a eoTs SSS ae to sys No. 81
NInths said he employed SIX girls and for the last
spectors Joseph Dun. little boy who did not
look than ten years S ssS he was emplSyed
few days lie got s. week he sala FOR pulling
five years old and must work" Mr. Mayer
thought this boy could not be more than eleven
years old. -
Miss Ivy Ross. a woman reporter. testified that
abe had visited the tenement-houses over the cigar
factory at No. 3o5 TO 800 East Seventy and
saw Louis and Joseph Jerak two boys at work
shining cigars THE boys father told me- said
she That Louis and Joseph worked after school
hours some OF the tenants told her that when
the factory inspectors came the parents were told
10 hide the children that they could not be seen
SOLOMON Bader. OF No. 4o' East Eighty -frst-st.
who used to be foreman for SIverthai d Co.
uas called TO give his opinion TO making cigars
In tenement houses He had had thirty years ex-
perience, and was sure that cigars could not be
made I'm tenement houses so clean as In factorit.
An adjournment was taken until next SATURDAY
AZ 10 o'clock. The committee Will make a personal
investigaton OF sweatshops during the week.