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 NOTES AND MEMORANDA 401 by comparing them with a table of wages earned in one year by the daughters of working men, whose budgets for one year are given in the report of 1875. GENERAL AVERAGE EARNINGS PER ANNUM OF WORKING WOMEN AND GmLs IX MASSACHVSETTS (1872). Boots and Shoes ...... Domestic Labour ...... Dresses and Cloaks ..... Store and Saloon work .... Men's Clothing (wholesale). . . ,, ,, (custom). . . Shis .......... $352'92 274'56 238'32 234'51 222'02 193'20 190'72 AVERAGE EARNINGS IN ONE YEAR OF DAUGHTERS OF WORKING (1875). Ages. Number. Average Earnings. 11 1 $110.00 12 2 167'37 13 5 160'00 14 8 210'88 15 13 215'77 16 33 284'12 17 21 265'14 18 1 397'00 19 1 357'00 Totals 85 259'24 We are not told the occupations of these eighty-five girls, but looking through the budgets we are able to find the occupations of their fathers. Daughters of Number. Average age. Carpenters .... 4 16 Mill operatives ' ' i is i 8 15. Machinists .... 6 16] Labourers in machine s o 5 16 Out-door labourers .... 27 Labourers in mills .... 19 Labourers in shops .... 6 Boot and shoe nakers. . . 10 15] 15 16 15 Average earnings. $321.00 299.37 294.50 265'80 251'15 248'93 243'0O 231'90 The girls in the neighbourhood of shoe factories have here the lowest average. Although these figures only refer to girls under twenty, the average wage is yet higher than that calculated in the report of 1872, in which the wages of women over twenty were taken into account. So many of our London factory girls have to be content with tea and bread and butter, with perhaps a little'fish for breakfast, that the NO. 2.. VOL. I D D