New-York tribune., 1913-05-18
Paris League Reveals Miserable
Wages Paid to Women.
FOURTEEN CENTS A DAY UP
Highest Earnings so Gents for
Ten Hours Work in
Making Corsets.
Especial Correspondence of The Trlbune)


Paris. May 9-In the Rue Reamur has
recently been established a Sweaters
Museum" where are exhibited by the
League OF the Young Republic various
examples OF the products Of sWeated te-
male labor I'm Paris. with cards attached.
showing the sums women earn by making
the articles. The league has opened the
museum in the hope that such an object
lesson will result in amelorauon OF rhe
lot of the workers. Some Of the articles
, and the prices paid for the work. with the
selling prices I'm the shops, follow:
Corsetage. Eight cents for three hours
work: another variety, 10 cents for two
hours work. BY working ten hours
day the women can earn 80 cents.
Aprons Time one and one-half hours
paid for at the rate OF 6 cents each'
Earnings IN a ten-hour day. S cents
other aprons five cents each. Earnings
In n ten-hour day. % cents.
Chiidren's Frocks Time two hours
paid for at the rate OF cents each. Earn
lngs I'm a ten-hour day. 25 cents.
Tics and Bows. Sixteen cents dozen.
Ten-hour day wage 46 cents. Another
variety OF child's frock, cents for three
hours' work. The cost price OF this frock
is 3s cents. and It is sold In the SHOPS at
Just double.
Car5ing pins-Three cents an hour
Maximum earnings % cents a day.
Putting artificial white violets In
Tsnrays--Four cents hundred sprays. a
clever workwoman can make fifty 6unches
o., an hour. and earn Joy working ten
hours 70 cents day
Fancy apron. trimmed with lace-t1ve
conts for four hours work. or ii cents
day Such an apron is sold in the shops
at 81 q.
r'nderskirts-Tlme taken. four hours.
for II is almost wholly handsewn. PAID
for az Il cents the whole skirt. Maximum
wage. 3s cents a day
Cbomisette- Model created by the
woman herself. who takes seven hours
TO make II and IS paid % cents for it.
Chemise de dame.-For four hours work
the nav is 6 cents, or Is cents a day.
Iady's hat.-A good workwoman VIII
take four hours and will be paid l6 cents.
This hat will be sold for at least 50 10.
Another variety Of chemise de dame,
almost entirely hand sewn, with lace and
embroidery and picked outline taken.
hours: nav. 20 cents: but the workwoman
must find her own thread and embroidery
cotton.
Beautiful embroidery for reticule.-
Time taken, hours. The pay is 1S cents.
less 4 cents. so that the woman can earn
Is cents a day.
Little patriotic ilags.-The colors OF
these have TO be sewn together and
hemmed. For 90 dozen flags, representing
Ia days work Of hours EACH the woman
received 81 cents. and she had to buy
guide. price So cents. for her machine.
Mems Umbrellas.-Nineteen cents TO 20
cents a dozen. II takes twelve 10 fifteen
hours to make two dozen. The pay Is
cents to cents an hour.
\ HeautIful piece OF embroidery involv-
ing eight hours work is paid for at the
rate OF Is cents.
on a little table is exhibited the midday
meal OF such workers. Ii consists OF
stale bread, ] cent. egg, cents; fried
potatoes. 2 cents; cheese. cents, with
a glass Of water.
At the far end of the room is little
recess curtained of. You are requested
10 enter. You draw aside the curtain.
and YOU find yourself in front OF a mir
ror on the curtain rs q notice, which
reads. who Is to blameY