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Updated: May 31, 2025
I have never lent so much in my life, nor even been security for such an amount." Mendel dropped his head. There was a moment of anxious silence. Bear thought deeply. "I tell you what I'll do," said Bear at last. "I'll lend you five if you can manage to come out with that." Mendel gave a great sigh of relief. "God shall bless you," he said. He wrung the sweater's hand passionately.
At the conclusion of Sweater's remarks the philanthropists gave three frantic cheers and then someone in the crowd shouted 'What's the colour? After a hasty consultation with Rushton, who being a 'master' decorator, was thought to be an authority on colours green grass green was decided upon, and the information was shouted down to the crowd, who cheered again.
In these cases the firm itself has learned the sweater's secret, and through an agent of its own is sweating the life-blood out of these half-starved victims. Let us begin near at home with a South Boston case, which came to my notice through the dispensary doctor for the district. It is a widow with one child a little boy scarcely three years old.
Christmas in the East Side tenements begins with the sunset on the "Holy Eve," except where the name is as a threat or a taunt. In a hundred such homes the whir of many sewing-machines, worked by the sweater's slaves with weary feet and aching backs, drowned every feeble note of joy that struggled to make itself heard above the noise of the great treadmill.
Such an income, paltry as it seems, may be invaluable; it may supplement her scanty earnings: it may enable her to take a holiday: it may give her time to look about her: it may keep her out of the sweater's hands: it may help her to develop her powers and to step into the front rank. What gratitude would not the necessitous gentlewoman bestow upon any who would endow her with 13s. 6d. a week?
Besides this artful scheme of Sweater's for getting a good advertisement on the cheap, numerous other plans for providing employment or alleviating the prevailing misery were put forward in the columns of the local papers and at the various meetings that were held.
This would leave 5s. 6d. clear profit on the board of each of the twelve men, or, altogether, L3, 6s. per week; and this, added to the L1, 2s. profit on the rent, would give L4, 8s. for the sweater's gross profit on the board and lodging of the workmen in his place.
"You a sweater's man?" "Ay!" with another oath. "My men ran away folks said I drank, too; but here I am; and I, that sweated others, I'm sweated myself and I'm a slave! I'm a slave a negro slave, I am, you aristocrat villain!" "Mind me, Downes; if you will go quietly, I will go with you; but if you do not let go of my arm, I give you in charge to the first policeman I meet."
We watch along our highroads the long procession of labourers deserting their ancestral villages for the cities; we trace them to the slum and the sweater's den; we follow them to the poorhouse and the prison; we see them disappear engulfed in the abyss, while others press at their heels to take their place and share their destiny.
They were working for Rushton painting the outside of a new conservatory at Mr Sweater's house, 'The Cave'. This job was finished the next day and at four o'clock the boy brought the handcart, which they loaded with their ladders and other materials. They took these back to the yard and then, as it was Friday night, they went up to the front shop and handed in their time sheets.
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