The Evils of Sweating.
HOW TO KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER. (Per Press Association.] Sydney, Dec. 9. The Daily Telegraph is publishing a series of articles on " sweating" in the Sydney Clothing Trade. Instances are given where women work from 120 to 130 hours weekly for anything from 10s to 18s, and for making a pair of trousers for the magnificent sum of 5d to 6j. " Work as they will," says the writer, "itis as much as they can do to keep body and soul together, working trom before daylight in winter to far into the night-hours. The average earning per hour is l£d, and buy yonr own cotton and tb/ead in addition. Said one woman : — ' Why, at some places I work for, I have known (hem go through my accounts at the end of a hard week, and knock off several shillings for different things. They fine you if the trousers are not done as they should be. Some factories always have you for • few shillings if they can." Another said:— Women at this work never get proper food. Even if they bad the necessary money to buy it, which they have not, they could hardly bear to eat it. With the way the work is paid for now, I find it utterly impossible to live and pay my way on i£."
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 138, 10 December 1895, Page 2
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