Anti-Sweating Crusade.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, September 4 The Church of England is taking a large part in the anti-sweating crusade. The Bishop of Melbourne, addressing a meeting, said as a result of personal enquiries he had discovered that skilled tailoresses worked 60 hours a week for 12s, and in some cases from 9 in the morning to 11 o'clock at night for us a week. The price for making shirts was 9d to Is per dozen, vests aud trousers 811 each, complete sac suits 2rf 7d. Iv the bakery trade meu worked 11 hours for £1 per week. It would be an important step towards the abolition of sweating if all professors of Christianity frequented only those shops where moderate prices were demanded for goods sold.^
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 58, 5 September 1895, Page 2
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127Anti-Sweating Crusade. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 58, 5 September 1895, Page 2
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