The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-06-04

LdlHeu. IneSe nSureS refer TO Skllleu
labor, work in which skill and care
and even talent were employed.
Sweet little infant dresses, care
fully made, feather-stitched and
knotted, were shown. A line tells
that rs cents was the price paid for
making a dozen of them. 1t also
tells that it takes between fourteen
and sixteen hours a day to earn ten
or twelve cents
A child crochet sack tells a sim
liar story The woman who made it
got cents and earned from 80 cents
to 81 week. At the same rate of
wages, with an equal amount of en-
ergy and skill spent, little baby
bootees and little slippers are pro-
duced
Flowers Tell Tale.
Perhaps the most pathetic story of
all is told by little punches of flow
ers. Flowers are the most eloquent
mediums of expression, and these
tell heartrending tales of toll and
torture.
A bunch of artificial pansies tells
how a group of little children got Z
cents for working it into it's present
pretty state. There are large, green
leaves which tell that three persons,
who had worked eleven hours to
produce them, had received 20 cents
each. Little pinks, delicate and
DAINTY, are placed above a photo
which shows little ones in the pro-
cess of turning them into shape.
Children, mere babies, bent on the
work, were receiving cents a gross
for their work. There are also for
get-me-nots, and they speak louder
than all in their mission of remind
ers. Beautiful, highly colored and
bulky. they stand out in effective evil
dence of the testimony they bear.
Those who eat bread, without a
union label will learn an interesting
lesson when they visit the exhibition.
monographs are on show presenting
conditions under which non-union
bread is made. One photograph
shows a bakery lin an Italian dis
trict. In this bakery five members
of family sleep, eat and live. The
hoor is reeking with filth and the
walls are promiscuously covered with
bread, flour and clothes.
Pamphlets explain that this bake
shop is not the only one. One para
graph reads as follows:
You may think that because Won
buy your bread from a high-priced
bakery, with high-class reputation,
that you are insured against such
conditions. But many of the so-called
best bakeries in New York are lust
nj J;>,&..
exist not only on the lower east side
but all over Greater New York;
Some of the photographs are ex-'
planned in the publication of the
Consumers league. A reprint of an
article in the Charities, written by
Mary Van Kleek, who had investi-
gated conditions, tells:
"On the same floor, where Kath-
arlne and Angelina lived, four other
children, Vito, aged fourteen years;
Katie, aged twelve; Jennie nine ana
Antolnette seven, were at work MAX
ing June bugs at 8 cents a gross
Their total earnings combined with
the wages of their mother and older
sister were between SO and 60 cents
day. On the next floor below.
mother were making paper flowers.
Across the hall, Maggie, aged sixteen
years; Angelina, aged fourteen; Jo-
sephine, aged eight; Tony, aged eight,
and Frank, aged four, were at work
! on a more complicated kind of rose.
: for which the employer paid Is cents
a gross. But this work brought no
higher wages than cheaper grades
Of /. flowers. since to make three and
one-half gross in day the family
must work until 9 D, NJ .>.$f
7 One. child, Josephine, :. who was
often kept at home to help in flower
: making, had been absent from school,
one dayin three through the autumn
when the flower season was at its
height. Nearby was "a family who
made black violets ats cents gross
..-- = aged eight years, and
+ /. Mary, aged thirteen, helping after.
school When the materials come
from the factory the petals stick to-.
igether and must be separated before
they are pasted on the stems. Fhisl
work was done by Lucy, aged u SIX
& years who, a visitor reported, ,issnot
very well, SO the mother d oes not.
send her to- kindergarten. She works.
almost all day or else cares for the
baby # II .s,sl.3 4. ~.
s.'A Among SIS children Investigated.
there le were 81 So boys and 70 girls;
The ia Bile records one chill Ia aged
n roe se 4rs; TIL ee aged Hour Yea &;
on as ed u; !. twenty t1arees