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Domestic News
July 14, 1930
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
The Consumers League reports abominable working conditions in New York canneries, including low wages of $10 to $12.50 for 50-hour weeks, exposure to wind, rain, and cold without protection, and women working on wet, slippery floors while drenched.
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in N. Y. Canneries
NEW YORK.—The Consumers League, which hopes that the bosses might be gotten to ease up their exploitation of the wage slaves, but does nothing to abolish the exploitation itself, has discovered that working conditions are abominable in the canneries here. The "league" has found that wages are from $10 to $12.50 for a 50-hour week and that sick and fatigued workers labor under inhuman conditions.
Their report shows that without protection from wind, rain or cold, shed workers must keep at their tasks, and that there are wet and slippery floors where women, drenched to the skin from dripping belts, must slave away under capitalism in order to keep alive.
in N. Y. Canneries
NEW YORK.—The Consumers League, which hopes that the bosses might be gotten to ease up their exploitation of the wage slaves, but does nothing to abolish the exploitation itself, has discovered that working conditions are abominable in the canneries here. The "league" has found that wages are from $10 to $12.50 for a 50-hour week and that sick and fatigued workers labor under inhuman conditions.
Their report shows that without protection from wind, rain or cold, shed workers must keep at their tasks, and that there are wet and slippery floors where women, drenched to the skin from dripping belts, must slave away under capitalism in order to keep alive.
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Economic
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New York Canneries
Working Conditions
Consumers League
Wage Exploitation
Low Wages
Where did it happen?
New York
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New York
Event Details
The Consumers League has discovered and reported abominable working conditions in New York canneries, including wages from $10 to $12.50 for a 50-hour week, sick and fatigued workers laboring under inhuman conditions, shed workers without protection from wind, rain, or cold, and women on wet, slippery floors drenched from dripping belts.