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    EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 391

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    The Establishment Of This Society Was Co...

    or onl in y " any be { rained other "business properly ; , and to become that it capable is only this of conducting want of training 1 or workin which g in ke thi eps s

    so " m We any wom have en now poor ten and workers in difficulties constantl ali y their engaged days . in this office , eight of whom are ready and rapid writersthe other two are pupils . As of course

    t b t heir his roug business wages ht in fluctuates also cannot vary considerabl i yet n pro be por considered tion y , , and , ran as ging established the from writers five , are the to x _^ amoun sixteen aid by t the shillings of p iece k ,

    that per week which . coul But d low be as earned this may at the seem needle , and indeed with nearl is , the twice sum is the nearl amount y doub of le labor , y

    will " We surel . can y hear only add f our , that succes so far s wi our th work pleasure has meet . prospered In conclusion next , and , this let meeting me ex-

    press have t the he happ wish iness that of , i reporting f we are progress spared which to shall again be in proportion year , I to may this

    happy beginning . " MrGWHastings seconded the resolution , and moved , " That

    . . . made printing a was careful peculiarl review y well of the adap objections ted to women which . " had Mr been . Hastings urged ht to those

    which against referred women to learning health . to print He assured , and gave the meeting special wei that g had these not

    latter objections not proved surmountable , he could conscientiousl office for women y have . g Mr iven . Hasting his support s then to read the the opening followin of g a paper printing by

    Miss Emily Faithfull _, manager of the Victoria Printing Press : — new out ' During that employments the inquiries that mi work g which ht be suitable opened were for made to them women a few and , sugges months that tions their since were capacity , as thrown to the for

    this women a small branch onl scale Printing of . should industry It was was be a according had alread ed ly y de bee com termined n prove itors d , to and by open several thus an te experiments office st thoroug in which hl on y empyp ,

    was the a com question opened lete y answer on of the their to 25 suitableness the th of many March objections , for and the the work experiment and . warnings The "Victoria has which certainl Printing reached y afforded Press the p

    required to promo accomp ters for lish of striking the all parts plan off . of the Thoug the sheets work h it , , yet does greater the not setting strength appear of that than the women they type , _j _> do ca will ossess lled with be being Com able the

    of posing same practice facility , which their as is men superior the , and higher it delicacy is branch probable of of touch when the will trade they enable , have women them had can the to same compete amount

    successfull standing " The y difficulties with at case the to best compose supposed men , compositors the to have be tedious to insurmountable be . bending constantl over lifted were the — the stone namel long to h the correct ours iron of ,

    wei and chases g the hty in heavy type which from wei the ghts the the forms which subject rack are to the imposed will frame for , ever . and ' prevent These the y carry impossibilities the ing general of the y intr , ? . cases said oduc of a -

    tion printer disappeare of , stool women writing d at the into which on Victoria the the trade compositor Press / , ' , However by the sits introduction and , the works necessity as of fast certain for as she stan hig can d h three when has

    legged standing " The moving —and s , on these of heavy said weig stools hts are has not never unknown caused in the men loss ' s of offices work time . prop which hesie in d - , because a man has the regulation and of the stone him or imposing carried to , the

    volves room . the It is moving the duty of the of the chases pressman , to by return they the forms are to the compositors press- '

    Employment Of Women. 391

    _EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 391

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/31/