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Show LOW WAGES IN IRISH MILLS. Thore are 28,000 women workers in the mlll6 and factories of Helfaat, all of thm between the ages of JS and 60 If t-he number of women employed em-ployed In the ware rooms be added the ntmber is 35,000. A high percentage of these women ar married, their husbands being laborers in other than shipbuilding work. The wages of these laborers who are unorzanized, run from lis to Ks per week The laborers employed In the shipyard -i these men are organized) earn fron 22g to 2". vm" wek. Before they werp organized thou uapes were about tho same as those now earned by tho unorganized un-organized laborers. The low rate of wage paid to the men make It absolutely necessary for the wives to go to work The hours of labor for mill workers in Relfast are, as a rule, from 6:30 a. m. to B p m . and the average weekly wace Is about lbs or lis It has been said l some of the mill owners that a woman can oasilv earn 25s per week in a Belfast mill. I made a great man inquiries on this point, and when I suggested to a worker that she could make 25s per week comfortably, com-fortably, 1 recehed a laugh for an an swer I was told that a woman migh' earn ihat amount on nr iwk.' a vear by working like a slave, but that the aerace wage was about 1fs or lis per week; and In proof of this state-men' state-men' I was shown government fig ires for 1912 The wages paid in Belfast in the textile trade as shown by the 1912 figures, are aa follows: Average wage per week Men Shig, Pence. Rougbers (piece) 21 8 Weavers (piece) 16 8 omen Spinners time) ... 10 5 Reelers (piece) II 3 Winders (piece) 11 8 Weavers (two looms) .... 11 7 John G Irvine In London Chronicle |