<note>W.</note>Dawson Gordan (continued) shillings more. Even one of the better employers <lb/> like John Fulton & Co. are lowering their pay:— <lb/>

certain work on khaki shirts that was paid at <lb/>
2/8 per day has lately been reduced to 2/4<hi rend="superscript"><gap/>superscript text</hi>.</p>

The same story was told me when I met <lb/> some dozen members of the Textile Operatives<lb/> <note>falling wages & rising prices </note> Union in the evening. <lb/> Material for tents is paid at from 2/4 to 3/6 per <lb/> 'cut' of 130 yards. It is very heavy work &<lb/> bad pay. A widow, an experienced worker told <lb/> me her daughter could not stand it, & as she herself <lb/> was out of work at the time, she went in to finish <lb/> the job. The flax or material used was so bad it <lb/> constantly was breaking & delayed the work greatly. <lb/> The looms break down under this heavy work:- <lb/> the girls are 'slaughtered' by it, & get no more <lb/> pay for it; — 'that is the reason weavers cannot be <lb/> got sometimes.

At Agnes Street Factory this mother was paid 4/8 <lb/>

for 126 yards 42 ins. wide of aeroplane linens — <lb/> Ten years ago at York Street Mill she would have <lb/>

got 9/- for what they get 4/8 now.  She was<lb/>
able to make four 'cuts' in three weeks — i.e <lb/> 

504 yards for 18/8 or 6 <hi rend="superscript"> / </hi>/2 <hi rend="superscript">3/4</hi> a week — <lb/>

Camp cloth, they said should be paid 4/- to 5/- <pb/>