Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — WORK AND WAGES. [ARTICLE]

WORK AND WAGES.

The Senate Labor Committee Among: the New Englanders. [Boston Telegram.] Samuel D. Warren, a prominent and extensive paper-maker, testified before the Senate Labor committee to-day, and showed an exeeljentjcondltion of things among their laborers in Maine. E. L. Davenport, a compositor, thought grinding superintendents the greatest evil, and that employed children should be protected. M. H. Enwright, a grocer, thought the Government ought to regulate the standard of wages, as manufacturers’ goods are protected while labor is not. Dr. T. Stow, of Fall River, said operatives there were physically dwarfed and mentally wrecked by long hours, over-work, and starvation wages. The tenements are poor, ventilation bad, and facilities despicable. He favored the breaking up of land, money arid transportation monopolies. Thos. O. Donald, a Fall River spinner, earned $1.50 a day and had worked not half the time. Many Fall River laborers are obliged to dig clams and get their driftwood to eke out a living. Senator Blair said his story was too accursedly true. There were several other less Important witnesses.