Such is the case of women working in the sweating dens. Those who work at home are scarcely better off. They must, through the constant pressure of this foreign competition, labour from dawn till late at night to procure the barest subsistence, a subsistence not sufficient to keep them in health and strength. One wretched garret is all they can afford. Here they labour, and live, and die--no one heeding. In the winter they do without fire, and often the workers put on their backs, for the sake of warmth, the garments they are not actually engaged upon. Oftentimes it is not the woman alone, but her whole family who have to share this single room. It is impossible for a woman, working these excessive hours, to keep the room clean; and the consequence is that, especially in hot weather, it becomes infested by vermin, which find their way into the garments in process of making. The takers-in of the work in the larger houses, it is stated, kill the worst of these vermin with their shears as they examine their garments! Few of us would consider that any sum could compensate for such grinding toil under such awful conditions. Yet what do these poor women get for their labour? I have already quoted the case of a girl who earned from 3_s._ to 8_s._ a week for over thirteen hours a day; but many girls in the East End factories do not earn more than 2_s._ or 3_s._ a week! Working by the piece, a woman is paid 5_d._ for making a vest; 7-1/2_d._ for making a coat. She can by fifteen hours' work make four coats in a day, which comes to 2_s._ 6_d._; but out of this has to be deducted 3_d._ to a button-holer for making the button-holes, and 4_d._ for "trimmings," which means fire, ironing, and soap, all necessary for her work. A boy's knickerbocker suit is made at prices varying from 4-1/2_d._ to 10-1/2_d._ complete, according to the amount of work. For a suit made at 9_d._ the sweater gets 1_s._ 3_d._, leaving him a profit of 6_d._ Before destitute immigration set in, in such a volume, and prices were consequently higher, such a suit would have been sold at 3_s._ 6_d._, which would have admitted of a larger profit, and consequently higher price for labour. Other prices are--a shirt, sold in a shop for 7_s._ 6_d._, is made for 1_s._; and men's trousers are made outright at as low a price as 4-1/2_d._ per pair. The price paid by a sweater to a woman for machining trousers, runs from 1-1/4_d._ to 3-1/4_d._ per pair, and out of this she has to find cotton and "trimmings." If she does this at home she pays 2_s._ 6_d._ a week for the hire of a sewing-machine. The "finishers," as the women are called who press the garments, put on the tickets, and generally make them ready for sale, are paid from 2_d._ to 2-3/4_d._ a pair; but they lose a good deal of time in getting their work examined, and have frequently to stand three or four hours at a time. It is an invariable rule that no seats are provided for women when they take their work to the sweaters.