A LIVING (?) WAGE.
Fifty years have elapsed since Hood wi’ote his poem, “ The Song of the Shirt,” which aroused such general sympathy for the class (the needlewomen of London) for which he pleaded ; “ and yet,” says a writer in the Nineteenth Century, “they need that sympathy more now. When the ‘ Song of the Shirt ’ was first written these poor women were earning an average wage of at least per hour. At the present time many of them most of them cannot average more than an hour.” The writer points out that “ the great mass of needlewomen is made up of scattered individuals, who are isolated, inarticulate, voteless, helpless. |They have not strength, to combine, no money to spend ; the. agitator ignores them.” Women in the colonies may labour under some ' disabilities they desire removed, but their lot is infinitely brighter and happier than that of a great section of the toiling sisterhood of the Old Land.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 8, 26 May 1894, Page 3
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156A LIVING(?) WAGE. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 8, 26 May 1894, Page 3
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