THE SWEATED INDUSTRIES EXHIBITION.
ITO .THE EDITOR OP THE "SrurrATou."] SIR,—The description of jewel-case making in your article on the Sweated Industries Exhibition in last week's issue, which points out that it is a well-paid trade, overlooks the particular samples of this work shown at the Exhibition, which are amongst the most sweated of the many low-paid exhibits shown there. The ring-boxes shown have to be made for 3s. 9d. a gross. They are of cardboard, covered with paper, and lined with velvet; there are sixteen separate pieces in each box, and these have to be put together with great neatness and accuracy. Those sixteen processes have to be performed carefully one hundred and forty-four times before the worker earns 3s. 9d., and out of her pay she has to get her own paste.
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