"SONG OF THE SHIRT."
Ac the meeting of the Sydney Labour Council Jaat week, Mrs Greville, the delegate for the Women's White Workers' Association, appealed to the Council to support the new union in its fight for better conditions. She said her cheeks tingled with shame when she thought of the conditions und?r which some young girla had to work. Tnomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt" was just as applicable to" Sydney to-day as it had baen to London, Burns historic reference to man's inhumanity to raan paled into insignificance when compared with man's inhumanity to woman. In Sydney, young girls under sixteen years of age received a farthing a dozen for finishing shirt cuffs, working with a heavy iron all day long. At this munificent rate they could scarcely earn the new minimum wage of 4s a week. Little girls were only paid three-halfpence a dozen for sewing or. buttons. Even competent collar band and hands could only earn a pound a week from the best establishments in the city.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3097, 21 January 1909, Page 4
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171"SONG OF THE SHIRT." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3097, 21 January 1909, Page 4
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