Beauties Of tha Tariff.
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We have had many delightful pic,
tures ofl.owell, the brag spot of the
Boston cotton manufactures, but the
N. Y. Morning News gives the fol,
lowing new account of the female
operatives employed there. 1t is a
thousand times worse than negro
slavery in the most aggravated form.


"The board Of the girls is jobbed
out by the factory agents like feeding
so many cattle. and they receive their
wages clear of board from the facto-
ries. Generally speaking, the board
they get for the miserable factory
allowance Of seventeen cents per day.
board and lodging, is such that a
southern negro would turn up his nose
at. The Tribune is right, however
that if the board is advanced the
operative must lose the amount.
A girl now goes into the factories.
and is confined fourteen hours, in an
atmosphere so hot that her clothes
are drenched in perspiration in the
coldest days Of winter. In this state
Of heat they must run from the mill
to the house, to scanty meal, proyi-
ded for tie allowance of five cents,
and back to the mill in a given time
The severe labor, constant exposure,
the flying lint collecting on the lungs,
and other hardships, throw numbers
into consumption; many have spine
complaint, shoulders grown out, and
other deformities. For all this they
received clear Of board, in 1912, thirty,
three cents per day. This has, under
the present tariff, been cut down to
twenty-nine cents per day; and if the
boarding house keepers demand
higher board, further reduction
must take place, because the girls
are the complete slaves Of the facto-
ries. Every year numbers are dis
charged by Improvements in machin-
cry, and the discharged hands are
compelled to work for any price TO
get bread"