GARMENT-MAKERS' CONDITIONS.
DENUNCIATION BY ROOSE-
VELT.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Fn the* company of two lady organisers, Colonel Roosevelt yesterday visited a few of the East-side halls, where he met and conversed with many of the women and girls now taking part in the garment workers' strike.
Colonol Rooserelt afterwards declared that the working conditions were crushing tho motherhood out of most American girls. What ho described as a typical ease was that of a girl fifteen years of age. who told him
that she worked from 8 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night, making 36 kimonos, for which she was paid at the rate of 2d each.
This girl made 24s a week, and had to pay the company by which she was employed £6 10s a year for the use of a sewing machine.
Another girl stated that she received' a salary of. 10s, out of which she had to spend os a week in car fares.
The ex-President lias decided to confer with a member of the Senate with a view to having a committee appointed to investigate the present Working conditions in America.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 3
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