SWEATED WORKERS.
|%13XHrBITiON" ' IN-' LONDON. '^ > workers' exhibition .was jiykentlr! opened in London under thf> iuispicos of the Conservative and Unionist . . Franchise- Association, i Among "the workers present vara: An bxpert. maker of brushes; who had to thread-1000 holes-to cam ejd.; clever waiter-, of. artilieial flowers, .whoso earnings were about Bs. a week ;■ mater-of' rounder boots,-, who received BJd. a. pair, and had to buy her own rivets; worker in blac-k braid, who was paid at the .rate of-.Td. a, dozen yards, "and who earned about os.. a week;- makers of rinldren'fi -coats at 2}d; eaeli, shirts nt (Ud'. io ; ls. Hid. dplseli, and children's knickers at M. a dozoil'. Mr. E. A. , .GoulfliiiE, M.P., said , that the-.Roods tliev saw were products of avarice and greed-.. It was a very strik--inK exhibition of sweating tiuder all its hideous conditions in that land .• of wealth. ..It .was (Jiscrociitable to the country, a disgrace- to tjie liation, a dis» praeo to civilisation, aiid ifc wes moit? thaa ev.er a slur on this eefleratio*. ■
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 10
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170SWEATED WORKERS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 10
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