p. 249 | It Gives Employment by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

"It Gives Employment."

By Editor

COMMENT is unnecessary upon the following press dispatch. It speaks for itself, and throws some light upon the employment plea in behalf of the tobacco nuisance:—

"CHICAGO, MAY 17.—The Executive Committee of the Cigar-makers' Union yesterday afternoon heard the testimony of six young girls employed by one Behrman, on Kinsey Street. It was shown that they worked from 6 o'clock in the morning to 9 at night and three nights each week till 11, making bunches for cigars. The majority received $3.00 per week, and in order to make a profit off this scanty pittance he charges them every minute of time lost. When the Health Inspector visits the place the proprietor manages to secrete the children under age employed. Other tyrannical practices are alleged, and it is claimed the place is only a type of others in the city."