Makers of Our Clothes a Case for Trade Boards Being the Results of a Years in
Makers of Our Clothes a Case for Trade Boards Being the Results of a Years in
Adle Levis Meyer
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Y. 's, and in those days often earned up to 20$. A week, working, as she now does, with a treadle machine. Her average wage over twenty-six weeks of the busy, not the slack season 104 MAKERS OF OUR CLOTHES as shown by her book was js. ^d. A week. During many weeks of the year she can get no work at all. Her husband is in constant but not well paid work, there are two children and the rent of their flat is 6s. 8d. She makes chiefly shirt blouses, stitched throughout ; they have four rows of stit...ching round the cuffs, four down the front, two round the yoke, buttons and a draw string ; she is paid 2s. , 2s. 6d. , 2s. &d. Or 3. ?. A dozen and if she works long hours can do from a dozen to a dozen and a half in a day. Her usual number of working hours is about eight when she can get work enough. Two other women have worked at home both for Messrs. X. And for Messrs. Y. Mrs. T. Makes mostly cheap blouses with tucks and insertion and is paid from 2S. Gd. To 4^. 6d. A dozen. If she worked hard for eleven hours she could make a dozen of the cheaper kind.
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