The Detroit times., 1914-12-18
|1arvation Wages Receive Royal
Recognition Across the Wa
ter, Says Writer
|<yOMEN WORK FOR
SIX CENTS A DAY
Standard of Sweating" Set by
RoyaltLady Is Claim of
Working Girls
az MARY sovLE o'aElLLv.

'II Il VIII ID ybl TAKE me Win you
nskec. Ter brave smile gave consent.
I'D ano down the Old Ford Road III
BOW, East End, home workers laden
With bAAdles- efept through the Lon
1on fox. They were the lucky ones,
9|omen who still had work. Unem'
r1Oyment caused by the war increases
&ong women in London at the rate
h 900 a week Working people new
~ want war. War steadily under
mes their income. And il is always
\ vs. working women who suffer most,
IFBoot leather and raw wool are aw-
+ u costly since the government began
wing for the soldiers" explained the
[I[t1o Dressmaker, "that means half
( he, reduced wages, no work TO be
all on account of the war. The
3Ikar factories are closing, the cloth
Z factories shut down, not a job in
1ding Lane
Among my papers lay a prohibited
hort:
The low wage labor market is dis
|otafed. Even starvation wages can
~ be had. Approximately $4,000 wo-
IN workers are unemployed in Lon
~. or the $4,000 dressmakers one
<&krter are idle. six in every nine on
|Iort time. Last year sol women
|(1ght Jobs at the Central Unemploy'
III Bureau In a given period This
Ar the number was $50.
This at the beginning OF a three,
1kr's war and a hard winter. The
series OF Belgium are more poig-
lit, but hardly less bitter than the
hing sorrows OF London.
From matches to meat all things
I've gone up In price. Bread has
In to IL cents for quarter loaf,
lar. from cents to IL cents, rice
BY 4 cents, now costs cents. bacon
4 an unobtainable luxury in the
mes of the poor, knuckle ends of
tton lately 8 cents pound, today
&c IL cents-and food prices con-
ne to rise.
10 meet the inevitable misery Of the
khaunted winter private charity
- SSiss go, 000 600 to the Prince OF
|1fS8 fWfds the queens fund TO
expended for relief through, public
So terrible is the dis
~ l3Aady that II of the 20 London
Dr6ugts1 nave already submitted
ines to establish workrooms sub
led by the queens fund.
Dnly last week her majesty. Queen
larry, visited her workshops amid
cans OF praise to investigate con-
HONS. observe progress and signify
- royal approval.
The Little Dressmaker and l en-
He'd the narrow door OF such shop.
4 crowd of anxious, patient women
- listened while the directress IN
barge announced the grim policy of
he place.
lin applying for employment at a
mems workIoom each woman must
ing proof that her unemployment is
~. To the war. No work can be given
y married women, or to widows with
xown children; their ablebodied hus-
I[ts and sons should support them.
Ms must be clearly understood.
'*Of tie G64s women who registered
Ihg September ONLY $50 were
Ven employment. Out of las regis
Fed last week ONLY ) could be rec
oAended for employment and but
q receiped work."
&Hnd 1he Cothers?" whispered the
~ Stpe tsAaker The answer il
&pA7e .sliEArent in East London most
<I>le fefpw rprouder and more sensi
<6 as they grow poorer, more prone
sstiffer in silence than 10 parade
Mir poverty. !, A woman must be DIES
1de and desperate indeed who
bpes against hope to secure living
koge at a queens sweat shop. For
My young and strong women would
-. NJ IN he Ct crnn d. n q In
rRchine rate Of payment.
y Six cents an hour for forty hours a
eek. With maximum wage of ten
DlliDgs. Two dollars and a half 10
~ for q weeks work Of a woman
<ho riltist maintain herself and her
|&nilyfsofr little ones-S2.50 for the
|certstTicken mother who must
ouse. feed and clothe her children in
De rthcst country on earth during
he gfeafest1war of all time.
For the tcne woman out of las APP
&IIcants Who obtains work in a queens
|1<eat shop no allowance is made for
rfares and should she remain all
~ In the workroom she Is charged
cents. for q midday plate Of soup
4 10 4 CENTS for bread and tea
The fweaters OF Whitechapel are
IMPOSED n pay their slaves Z cents
E 1bour: cents is just half the trade
MON minimum wage. An unskilled
Sorcr mnst be paid 10 cents an hour
IA aliens are not allowed TO land In
x1and unless able to prove thai
~ will be paid s4.25 week.
Public spirited women conducting
eIIef workrooms not under royal pa
|1hage have respectfully represented
o Queen Mary that cents an hour
n Sd week Is a rate OF wage on
1}ch Il Is impossible 10 subsist.
6ercfore they petition her majesty
4 snpport n movement for a decent
fnudard OF payment for work and re-
81 urging that II private charity can
- meet the need the public
xchequr may be drawn upon. and
~ "a al relief work subsidized by
tblic funds minimum Of 10 cents an
1lr, $5 week shall be paid the
|1tn employed.
Ne answer WAS conclusive. From
0necn's mouihDiece the working
IN OF London learn that women
~ have been sweated IN the labor
N, always Will be sweated. and
now a. not the time TO demand
14<er Moreover. such ambitious
<rocms az nay more than 6 cents
= hcur--S2.5o q week viii receive
>effs from the queens fund. Thus
<<r'E labor AGITATION AMI lrgssla.
rff fffn undcrmined I'm day.
||@r nc Hkfy'F sweafshous have set
81 ~ I1rc and the lower standard
|/|||fH oeets have received ROYAL
1|ni'ior m Manchester the new