THREE SHILLINGS A WEEK.
i < • Truth " eays: -The ' Kuby ' matchboxes of Bryant and May cost the company 2£d per 144 boxes The women who make them have to find paste, hemp, and firing for drying purposes. They can gain, if skilful, f d per hour, or less than lOd for twelve hours' work. If they work eight hours per diem, and take a holiday on Sundays, they would realise the handsome salary of 3s per week. The company pays its shareholders above 20 per cent, dividend, 'ihia seems to me hirdly a fair division between those who toil and those who do not
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1679, 5 October 1887, Page 2
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103THREE SHILLINGS A WEEK. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1679, 5 October 1887, Page 2
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