MISS TAFT AND THE BLOUSEMAKERS.
;Miss Helen Taft; whose "coming out" will bo 'the'chief, event-of the social season at Washington next year, attended a meeting of the girl blouseinakers. on striko at Philadelphia, together with a number of girl students from the Bryn Mawr College. The fair little daughter of the; President shook her head in a horrified manner during tho speeches, and when the meeting ended declared to the reporters her firm intention of "speaking to papa about the horrible conditions in which: these blouse-makers are forced to live. "I shall never put on a blouse again without a shudder." sho continued. "To .think that these girls have to work ten or. twelve hours a day and suffer agonising headaches because thoy have to watch a dozen needles flash up and down a thousand.;times a minute, and then only get a pound a week —it's awful.'. , , Miss Taft hero took out her notebook arid said, "Yes, a thousand times a minute. . \Tliat's what the speaker told us. I'm going home to tell.papa."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 773, 23 March 1910, Page 3
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173MISS TAFT AND THE BLOUSEMAKERS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 773, 23 March 1910, Page 3
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