ABSTRACT
ElIlI;'lIlhwoman'l ReTltlW'J Pebruary I~tb. 1871; Record of Events. 87
when suoh aoome. No possible increase of wages can do as much to improve the position of needlewomen as the opportunity thus given them of becoming capitalists on a small scale themselves. An average wage of lIs. or 15s. a week is after all an inadequate return for the constant labour of a skilled artizan; a woman cannot live with any approach to oomfort, maintain depeudent relatives, and provide for her own old age out of such a sum, and Hamilton & Co. feel strongly that the workwomen have a reasonable and moral right to some further share in the returns of the firm as its business extends and becomes more remunerative.
