Show hard worked it is a fact that in new york city hundreds of girls employed in the tenement house sweating shops are forced to work from ten to seventeen hours a day at 6 during what is called the drag when a contract is taken on short time the doors are locked and all hands kept at work till 10 or 11 the condition of factory girls is not much better although the system is less compulsory pul sory manufacturers of feathers flowers braid and dress trimmings instruct their foremen to let the girls take work home this is not to benefit the girls so much as to fill orders for no extra pay is allowed and it is understood that all night work must be checked off in the morning before the days labor is resumed in this way the midnight oil is burned by children and young women who need all the time there is between 6 p m and 7 a m for rest and recreation new york virid |