00 a
week, 34,000 less than $7.00 a week, 68,000 less than $10.00 a
week and only 17,000 receive $15.00 a week or more. These low
wages are not only paid to apprentices either in factories or
stores but to large numbers of women who have been continuously
in industry for years. Again, the New York State Factory
Investigating Commission tells us that half of those who have five
years' experience in stores are receiving less than $8.00 a week,
and only half of those with ten years' experience receive $10.00 a
week. Dr. Howard Woolston of the Commission has pointed out: "Even
for identical work in the same locality, striking differences in
pay are found. In one wholesale candy factory in Manhattan no male
laborer and no female hand-dipper is paid as much as $8 a week,
nor does any female packer receive as much as $5.50. In another
establishment of the same class in the same borough every male
laborer gets $8 or over, and more than half the female dippers and
packers exceed the rates given in the former plant.
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