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Mr. Burnett, labour correspondent to the Boardof Trade, in his evidence before the Lords' Committee, maintains thatwhere Trade Unions are strong, as in the engineering trade, sub-contractis sometimes employed under conditions which are entirely"unobjectionable. " So too in the building trades, sub-contract is notalways attended by "sweating. " Secondly, much of the worst "sweating" is found where the element ofsub-contract is entirely wanting, and where there is no trace of aravenous middleman.... This will be found especially in women'semployments. Miss Potter, after a close investigation of this point, arrives at the conclusion that "undoubtedly the worst paid work is madeunder the direction of East End retail slop-shops, or for tally-men--abusiness from which contact, even in the equivocal form of wholesaletrading, has been eliminated. "[20] The term "sweating" must be deemed asapplicable to the case of the women employed in the large steam-laundries, who on Friday and Saturday work for fifteen or sixteen hoursa day, to the overworked and under-paid waitresses in restaurants andshops, to the men who, as Mr.
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