LABOR'S WRONGS. 45 



and the highest earned was reported by a woman who said 

 she had earned $6. 10 in two weeks. According to Miss 

 Nelson's report, the Julius Stein & Co. factory is presided 

 over by the most heartless, cruel, insulting tyrants, who are 

 only prevented from using the lash by the civil law. Like 

 the other factories she visited, the work-room is dark and 

 poorly ventilated, and the poor slaves suffering not only 

 from starvation, but are slowly dying by inches from foul 

 air and malarial poison, which comes from badly constructed 

 closets, and other impurities. So great is the strain upon 

 the poor wretches that if one happens to get a few cents 

 ahead, her very nature demands a trip to Lincoln park or 

 some other place where she can receive a few breaths of 

 fresh air. 



"The Times next reports the visit of its lady reporter 

 to the Excelsior Underwear works, 192-202 Fifth Avenue. 

 There she found the same condition of serfdom. There 

 she found women's drawers made at 20 cents per dozen, 

 shirts at 80 cents per dozen. The reporter secured work 

 making chemises at 80 cents per dozen, but had to pay 50 

 cents per month for the use of a machine. n 



In order to more clearly show the tendency and drift 

 of our own system towards that of the low condition of 

 labor in Great Britian, we publish the following article 

 from that able and efficient farmer's journal, the Southwest: 



SOME LONDON SLAVE GIRLS. 



" While the papers of Chicago, and the country in 

 general, were describing the poverty, misery and helpless 

 dependence in which the working girls of Chicago lived, 

 and the systematic ill-treatment to which they were sub- 

 jected, the papers of London, England, were teeming with 

 the detailed horrors of match factory life in that city. 

 The exposure incident to the investigation of the strike in 



