PROTECTION AND THE SWEATING SYSTEM.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—For the first time, we have now learned that we have the sweating system in our large cities. It is only three months since the Piutective tariff was passed, and here is the outcome, females making shirts and eirning fourpence per day. O God ! 111 Thy mercy confound Protectionists and save us from this great iniquity. If Christ was now upon the earth how he would denounce them. These Protectionists are worse than the owners of the tables of the money-changers. Employers of poor sweaters may say it is competition. So it is ; but if we had not the tariff there would be no competition, for the trade would not vbe. A Protectionist may say that fourpence is better than nothing. To confute this, and show that by Free-trade wages would increase, is a large subject, and is more than, at the present moment, I am inclined to do. Sufficient to say I would sh#w that by Free-trade these females would all get married, and by Protection they will remain poor heart-broken threequarters starved old maids.—Yours truly, Hakapii'l. Harapipi, $th November, 1888.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2548, 8 November 1888, Page 2
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190PROTECTION AND THE SWEATING SYSTEM. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2548, 8 November 1888, Page 2
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