ABSTRACT
The following is an extract from the report of the Mansion House Committee on the permanent distress of London, which was published February 5th:-" Female labour is wretchedly paid. In shirt-making (for export), and similar employment, a woman gets about 9d. to a ls. for a day's work of sixteen hours. There are hundreds of women who work for :fd. an hour, and find their own needles and cotton. The prices include:- Shirts, :fd. each; flannel drawers for Chelsea pensioners. Is. 3d. a dozen; soldiers' ·leggings, 2s. a dozen; and lawn tennis aprons, elaborately frilled, fiid. a dozen to the • sweater,' the actual worker-getting much less. In such kind of women's work, however, the whole profit does not, as is supposed, go to the 'sweater,' but finds its way in great measure into the pocketa of the middlemen and retail dealers. The public, too, have often in some degree the benefit of these atarvation wages."
