| Show I The tIC or te the United States receive rK the Ute highest wage wa pad pa pat patIn l lin in the world The TIM women wo and girls girl rl compelled U lod to a work for tor a living JIg While Ift not n t always alWan given sI their tact Just J duos den at least K ift vastly 1 more than the th miser aM ante pittances doled 01 out to their th Miten Mi ten in Surope X ii 8 ri the thela la industry in III Belgium has baa j ji t come to tn hand han l 4 I nomen and aA girls Is being according to UM the u report of or the th Americas American cm coh n ul 1 Th Tit ta 1 twee e makers maker brain begin at C 6 to S 5 years IO of age ace aJ al lh tv ug the th t legal logal age limit it Is 11 0 y year rears Their hours are ar to noon and 1 to CO 7 f IOk hk in summer BUmmer and In winter 8 a am B a m to If II l p m They Tiler nl urn earn 8 S to le 18 cents cent a day da the th more expert H li I i cents cent The maximum maxim waxes w pal paid to 10 the most ei lace tace makers maker rev r exceed 19 10 c r i day and aad out of 2500 2600 00 workers worker only about twenty are paid the maxi maximum maxim mum m um Children CIt up to IS 12 1 J years yean of ot age and even older oMer are paid paW 20 0 cents per Berk Hk Relatively Rel to te Its the Hc he late latew nr w tl U the e Saints Main lace taN err the most mat t poorly paW paN All AU lace makers ate are paid by the oil alt t the c Flemish ell aU being C Inches These working in the schools earn arn Jeer leec J those working for a local kcal agent sr er r k It is JA largely large due to ox c e Of or I or that are AA so low Lj 1 schools are maintained by re U ln or arc directed by m more re or 1 ss expert lace la makers who wh I gather together r the pupils girls of ot different dif dIC different ferent ages in their dwellings small ns houses added add to which are the workrooms into which the children are peeked packed Often Onn seventy orlet or let 18 workers are arc crowded into a space lI ce that would barely barell barel for tor twenty people to move about rooms are ara not hosted boated At nightfall the benches are arranged d the the wall trail and upon small round s a petroleum lamp lampIs lampI Is I placed with flasks of or clear olear water arranged so that the tho light lI ht tra tho the water and false falls on the lace pillows of ot the workers Lace workers attendIng attend attending attendIng ing these schools pay 30 39 cents a month and the price of or tho the thread furnished for their work is deducted from their wages The children employed receive no Instruction the greater part not know knowing knowIng knowIng ing how to read rend or write rite The director or a school must turn over all work to the agent so 80 that sales soles In tho the open market are excluded od All work ex az executed Is usually specially ordered All AJI lace tace produced Is I offered for tor sale whether good bad or Indifferent a fact that it Il is lIS claimed has depreciated the industry try and maintains the tho low Jow scale of ef wags wage that prevails The lees tace makers skill is only developed de developed developed mechanically anything a like artistic training being tacking lacking which w partly accounts for toX tho large amount ef or Inferior lace IRce found on sale Per For ameliorating the tho condition of or orthe the lees 1888 workers and lending support to tv one of or the oldest olde t and moat mo t attractive attractive tive of or Belgian industries a new school chool has boo been organized that wf 11 date dato d te all existing schools ls and employ those teachers te chers now new working separately These Th are the conditions that would prevail in the United States Stat under free tree trade Workingmen from the tho old I i country of ot course know all aU about it having ing pinched themselves for tor years e in order to scrape moony money enough to together together gether gather to get over oer here The native laborer should ask a k his foreign brother how the system works |
