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I'm going to pull down the old rookery; and I'm going to put up in its place a model factory." "Hats?" "Hats and maybe other things. I'm going to show New York how to run a sweatshop you wait and see the most wages and the least sweat and the girls happier and safer than in their own homes. The missus and I were planning to bolt to a new place and begin life all over. That was foolish.
If there's no mind to work on, why then I use pills." The young man stopped impatiently at Broadway, unable to cross. A little girl of ten, pale and weak and underfed, staggering under a load of clothing from a sweatshop on the East Side, had been knocked down trying to cross the street to deliver her burden to a Broadway clothier.
We get a premium for working off 'dead stock. Each department must be made to pay, separately and on its own account, you see, whatever happens! And that's why each one is its own sweatshop " "I swear to you this isn't my father's fault," involuntarily Peter broke in. "He's not young any more, you see, and he worked so hard in his early years that he's not strong enough to keep at it now.
Lest I be accused of misrepresenting the writer of this libel, I will quote his exact words: When the susceptible people of the nation commiserated the poor Jews of the New York sweatshops they, for the most part, did not know that the inventors and operators of the "sweatshop" method were themselves Jews.
"They'll give me a job mean one three dollars a day nine to five under the roof in a big loft, tenth story with a lot of women hirelings. Regular sweatshop educational sweatshop." Sommers took up some letters from the table and opened them. "Well, I've got to scare up some patients to live on, even to make three dollars a day." "You!" Dresser exclaimed, eying the letters with naive envy.
She knew that other black-wigged women lived in every tenement; that other dark-browed girls were, at that same moment, rocking other babies. She fell to wondering, whimsically, whether God had fashioned the people of the slums after some half-dozen set patterns almost as the cutter, in many an alley sweatshop, fashions the frocks of a season. A sharp cry broke in upon her wonderings.
Billy looked at her suspiciously. "Young woman, how'd you earn that money?" he demanded. "Socks! Bushels of socks, mostly," answered Lydia with a chuckle that ended in a groan. She looked at Billy whimsically and then as the sureness of his understanding came to her again, she told him the story of her little midnight sweatshop. "Oh, dearest!"
To our surprise they did nothing whatever, and I made my first acquaintance then with those pathetic documents signed by the parents of working children, that they will make no claim for damages resulting from "carelessness." The visits we made in the neighborhood constantly discovered women sewing upon sweatshop work, and often they were assisted by incredibly small children.
The telephone buzzed on the wall set beside him. "That you, chief?" came the voice of Simpkins. "Yep." "Got one off Delany." "What is it?" "Kid smashed a window malicious mischief. Held for examination to-morrow at two. Five hundred bail." "Any sugar?" "Don't know. Says his father's dead and mother earns seventeen a week in a sweatshop and sends him to school. Got some insurance.
To most any return to their native country is completely barred, and they do not therefore nurse the hope, so inveterately cherished by the Italians, for instance, that they may some day be able to go back. When the Russian Jewish girl first hears of a trade union, she has usually been some years in one of our cities, working in a factory or a sweatshop, let us say as a garment-worker.
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