SWEATED LABOR IN SYDNEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8156, 13 July 1906, Page 2

SWEATED LABOR IN SYDNEY.

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VIRTUAL SLAVKttY RAMPANT.

AN EXHAUSTIVE REPORT,

Received 12,1055 p.m. Svdney, July 12. An exhaustive report has been issued . by a speoial committee of the Lnbor Council on ' sweated ' labor in Sydney Its findings set forth: "Slavery does exist in Bydney to-day. Oar women and little children are daily drawn out of the slums, and made pass under the hammer of the inexorable auctioneer; employed by capital. The craok of the slave-owners whip is legally for. bidden, but daily thousands of un» willing slaves go to their allotted tasks, to the stunting of their physical and mental growth, and often to ultimate destruction of body and soul. Many of the cases investigated, especially those instances m which children are victimised slaves, disclose such a hideous system of brutality as to almost justify a denial of our boasted civilisation, while the term ' Christian,' applied to a city where employers thrive on downright slave-deahng, i, an awful misnomer."

"Oar search disclosed heartless conditions in connection with the dairying industry; soap and candle works and boiling down establishments loudly proclaim the presence of the 'sweater'; jam, biscuit, lolly an d pickle factories are dens under his dit ion, and the fruit canning indus* tri potteries and kindred indmtries, cla. .. (heir toll. Though but a little distance was penetrated, your committee is appalled at the deep dyed sweating that flourishes in various iblnrrent forms. Girls Swere employed by certain firms for periods ranging up to two years for nothing, and afterwards paid half-a-crown a week. There were instances where dismissal took place.