Gain and Misery.
An Auckland factory girl writes to the:press:^-We bate men who'walk into -our workrooms with a finger in their buttonhole/ andr their companionsV'A w! this is the work you see, and these are our machines' (' these' mean us); "We J hate being 'sweated al 1 thesyeap.round, time given a shilling and wished .a merry Christmas ;;one is charity, and the other, is "blarney. 5 We think it: queer that! honest, up^^^^ citizens, capitalists, whose power.it is! teTmake'ihe city what they like—We! think it very queer to hear these gentle-' meq. pass•>4heh\ free opinion,.in ourj factory : " L workrooms/ that 1 ' Factories,j you know, /ujn the girls' ..constitutions,; totally c unfifc' : for wires andj mi?thersj'/*dding! to jthe/ ; same breath,'! 'This 0 If we had more" factories'it'would" be making jOf our, city.' Fathers of ourcity, ,I,,ask everyone of you if your own daughters' 'were grinding at; work that you believe was killing them...,would yougo .and stare,.at ...them i splendid industry ?' ~'-.!,7, ~ I
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 63, 2 September 1890, Page 3
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161Gain and Misery. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 63, 2 September 1890, Page 3
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