WHITE SLAVERY.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5287, 30 December 1885, Page 3

WHITE SLAVERY.

•When the anti-slavery agitation was a* its height in Britain, between 30 and 40 years ago, a number of conscientious op ponents of the tyranny over the negroes declined to use slave-grown sugar. They felt that by doing so they were aiding and abetting the crime ogainst humanity which they bo stroDgly denounced. There was a consistency, in this which merits imitation. There is a cruel system of white slavery carried on in Britain to cheapen goods for the export market.. An action has just been concluded in the Sheriff Court of Glasgow in which a costume maker sued the merchant for breach of contract. It came out on the trial tbat the costume maker employed a number of ejirla, from 15 to 18 years of age, at 2s a week of 60 hours. Upon this wage he claimed a profit of 350 per cent. The judge said the claim for profit was startling, and he reduced it to 100 per cent. Tbis slavery of young girls is worse than negro slavery. The niggers got their food, and it was to their owner's interest to keep them in health. These yeung women in that slop shop got no food, and their labour was not adequately requited. This crushing slavery must be followed by mined health and morals.