The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-03-31
PICTURES OF LONDON MIsrev
"""es Toifers barely Able to Keev
BODY and seus Tosefhps.

BODY and seut Together.
vi pathetic interest Is the report i,,st
issued by the investigation committee
Oh the Woman's Industrial council nm,
sVo cases OF work done by women IN
'heir own homes, every case being 70.
pof'ed oy personal visitor. No selec.
non OF cases has been made, and the
e'cnihgs OF dollmakers, bead and braid
workers, fur pullers, artificial flower
nakers and the rest may be taken as
.s''hrui pictures OF the lives of manv
thousands of London's toilers.
some are happy and some are desper-
a'eiy miserable; some are clean and
some are deplorably grimy: uome are
contented and proud Of their poor little |
nandiwork, but the great majority are |
only surviving the struggle for exist
ehce oy desperate exertions. Richter
mas said that the most heroic deeds
are those done within the pr,vacv ~
-FOUR walls, and here are examples Of
'n,s among the recorded cases.
woman and her nine children exist
On match box making. The father Is
lying In the inirmary. BY working
from ten to twelve hours a day thew
manage to earn tenpence or shilling.
raniIy often starving. This was the .
family that was burned 70 =
ueath on Christmas night at Bethnal a
green while the husband died in the (
'nnrmary the next day. =
Another Dicfura, To- tL.A =, =
,'uner who has to work Is hours n c.
Jay In order to make seven shillines n o.
week She provides her own sawdust T.
anco ana leather and she lives alone
. very bare black attic heaped I'M b
Vith shavings, sawdust and dolls o.
odies. She looks old and worn and fu
'orr1ed' but her only complaint is that tn
ne cannot get enough work. German OF
''nPeutlon is taking it all away. They c J,'
'uh dolls with grass, which they pick 90,
'r nothing.
In pressing rag faces on dolls an ex-
'r' can earn one shilling sixpence a
y ny working ~ to IA hours. But tho tn
DIX makes the eyes bad. 1t is very
igety getting the dolls eyes and nose
yht. '"''
Here is the case OF widow of 70. who |
lkes Just enough profit TO keep her 10 iu' ,
or the big house" She does II bv INN
ush drawing. Her earnings are one wild
ling twopence day. and she has on
work l4h hours. She is particular. was
plucky old woman, works unceasino. com
takes great pride in her work and dlsc'
lines to accept charity. 5 Solt
n contrast to this is the case Of n seco,
n, miserable creature whose dailv in al
nings at the same occupntion Ii
ount IN an ororo..,, 00'uP".lon stree
1;.;o age 10 4Ha pence. Her facto
oltIon is wretched in the extreme shall
mas lost one eye and the other Is An
IN infamed. Hence her difricultv IRON
ct on with the work. WI nI
hen there is the woman. tidy and 70. stowe
table, who has been deserted nv ber ond b
'and and left with two children er.. ~
earns ten shillings week by brush you k
'hlng. Although delicate in health band ;.
IS often mp before six in the morn. Lnieis
o get the children ready for school cbsno,
little ones do what housework is
'sary,while she polishes from seven How
morning till midnight. VII.
one more striking case, that of q
inter- working for her widowed
er, who is in bad health and nm.
TO work much. Fur pulling is the LIVE s
'atlon, and in week she can earn Sclc
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