Show the sewing girls of boston THEIR PITIFUL live LIFE DESCRIBED BY ONE WIIO WHO iras HAS TRI trl TRIED IT BOSTON april 21 the following was related to in me by a lady of good sense as the result of her personal experience and observation among the sewing girls girla of one of the large firms in boston it seems to me that too much cannot be said on this subject or the attention of the community too often called to th the e injustice nj u stice of employers towards these poor girls this lady is a widow and has A a daughter and herself to support she told me her story atory in thes words when I 1 first came here to boston I 1 1 I have quite as much money as I 1 wanted and so I 1 thought I 1 would justko just go downto down to and take my machine and see what I 1 could make at that work I 1 need to do it particularly because I 1 could earn more money taking care of the sick and besides I 1 was more used to it but I 1 went more than half to see how the girls treated so I 1 took teok my machine i and started 1 I had to pay forham for having it carried up stairs and had hali to climb so many nights flights that when I 1 arrived I 1 was not fit to run a machine for half an hour well I 1 supposed of course I 1 could earn as much ns as a dollar and a half a day I 1 want to ralsa raisa my ex expectations ecta so 80 put it as I 1 thought low w and thought 0 perhaps after I 1 got used to it I 1 should earn more T they ey gave me a linen suit to make mak u up p the tile stitching bands ruffles cuffs and collar all to le be finished complete for sale and the woman said to me seeing probably that I 1 looked as if I 1 knew how to sew 1 I suppose you can make two of these in a day 12 I 1 am pretty used to sewing was a dresen dressmaker laker when I 1 was first married but that rather surprised me two la in a day well I 1 thought of course I 1 shall shail get two dollars or more for them and that will be doing pretty well I 1 made that one suit in a day and how much do you suppose I 1 was paid for it itt seventy cents and there were seventy five girls or more in that room some young and pretty many with no homes and with their board to pay out of seventy cents a day dayl I 1 none intone efthem of them could make much more than that and many were wholly inexperienced so made much less the second day I 1 was wab there the they jr gave me a white wrapper and tucks and that took me rno a day and a half and I 1 had for it ninety cents while a white suit covered with ruffles and insertion which took me three days brought the enormous price or of then the forewoman and it seems as if they were always selected for their hardness of heart gave the work to the girls merely cut out no putting together gether to or La howing showing how it should be done cor S springfield wring pring Ite publican republican |