but that at Beardmore's factory in Glasgow, the <lb/> best work was done by women with University degrees <lb/>

who came in their motor cars.  I assured him I <lb/>
had no difficulty in believing that people well <lb/>
clothed & fed & educated did the best work, & if <lb/>
the employers in Belfast would try paying their <lb/> 

women workers enough to enable them to be properly <lb/>

clothed & fed & educated, they would find what <lb/>
much better work they could do. This was the <lb/> 

experience where there were Trade Boards. <lb/> I said I had come to get facts to lay before the <lb/>

Government, as there were at least two sides to <lb/> 

every question. </p>

After a minutes silence he raised his head & said he <lb/> thought it would be no use to discuss matters further. <lb/> I agreed & asked if I could see the works, he <unclear>dismissed</unclear>. <lb/> He added that they would start in about a weeks' <lb/> time, & that there was nothing he could show <lb/> me that day.

Thinking of the women I had seen the night <lb/> before & of their cruel struggle for existence, — the <lb/> mill hands die early, mercifully:- I wished I <lb/> could bring the well-off women to see what they are <lb/> doing in competing for these poor women's crusts.

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