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In addition to this, a large class of workers, male and female, are employed in Glasgow in the preparation and in the finishing of the goods as designers, lithographers, weavers, clerks, darners, ironers, and patterners. These are all well paid some very highly; and the young women composing the three latter classes are a remarkably well-to-do, prosperous class.
Next day, as we were leaning our elbows on the same window sill, the same woman perceived us and cried out to us: "Good-day, scholars!" in a comical sort of tone, while she made a contemptuous gesture with her hands. I flung her a cigarette, which she immediately began to smoke. And the four other ironers rushed out to the door with outstretched hands to get cigarettes also.
"Gawd!" she cried out. "O Gawd!" She flung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal, up and down the big whitewashed room that panted with heat and that was thickly humid with the steam that sizzled from the damp cloth under the irons of the many ironers.
Directly lessons were over Nana avenged herself for having been kept in by making an infernal noise under the porch and in the courtyard where the ironers, whose ears could not stand the racket, sent her to play. There she would meet Pauline, the Boches' daughter, and Victor, the son of Gervaise's old employer a big booby of ten who delighted in playing with very little girls.
"At eight of the hotels wages were paid partly in board and lodging. The money wages are given below: WORKERS LIVING IN PER MONTH Ironers on flannels, stockings, and plain work $22 Ironers skilled workers on family wash 25-30 Shakers 14-16 All beginners 14-16 "The eight hotels varied widely in living conditions.
Then how about the steam laundries where nearly all the shirt ironers are men? I said to him. "'Maybe you think that working in somebody else's house is woman's work. Then how about that butler up at Miss Spencer's? I said to him. "'And maybe we can bungle through with a few bearings for a while, can we? I said to him, very polite.
"Ain't you cold, Nance?" said Lou. "Say, what a chump you are for working in that old store for $8. a week! I made $18.50 last week. Of course ironing ain't as swell work as selling lace behind a counter, but it pays. None of us ironers make less than $10. And I don't know that it's any less respectful work, either." "You can have it," said Nancy, with uplifted nose.
The long summer day waned, but not the heat, and under the raw flare of electric light the work went on. By nine o'clock the first women began to go home. The mountain of fancy starch had been demolished all save the few remnants, here and there, on the boards, where the ironers still labored. Saxon finished ahead of Mary, at whose board she paused on the way out.
In laundry-work, which includes several divisions, wages weekly range from $7.50 to $10, though ironers of special excellence sometimes make from $12 to $15 per week. In millinery the wages are from $6 to $7 per week. In preserving and fruit-canning wages are from $3.50 to $10, the average worker earning about $5 per week. Mr.
She stayed only five days, and left in disgust—told me she'd never seen such hard work. Beyond the last press were the curtain frames and the large, round padded table for ironing fancy table linen by hand. Then began the lunch tables. Behind the row of presses by the windows stood the hand ironers who did the fancy work.
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