If the examiner finds the first two or three pairs of trousers faulty, he will not go through the whole work, but throws them at the unfortunate woman, and tells her to take them back and alter them. In this way she loses two days in doing one day's work. Shirt-makers who make by machine the common kinds of shirts, are paid 7_d._, 8_d._, and 9_d._ per dozen shirts for machining. They can machine 1-1/2 dozen sevenpenny shirts in a day, by working till midnight and later. The shirt-finishers, who make the button-holes by hand and sew on the buttons, get 3_d._ a dozen shirts, finding their own cotton, and can finish 1-1/2 dozen to 2 dozen in a day. Silk mantles, costing in the West End shops from £1 to £25, are made throughout in the East End for 7-1/2_d._ apiece, out of which the sweater pays the actual maker 5_d._ The common mantles are made at 5_d._ apiece; price to the worker, 3_d._ to 3-1/2_d._ Bead-trimmings are made by girls who, working twelve hours, earn from 8_d._ to 1_s._ 2_d._ per day. Mackintoshes are made at from 10_d._ to 1_s._ apiece. Mrs. Killick, a trouser-finisher, told the Sweating Committee that she could not make more than 1_s._ a day, working from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. She had a sick husband and three children, and out of her earnings she paid 2_s._ a week rent. She chiefly lived on tea and a bit of fish. What a glimpse of patient heroism and noble self-denial does the evidence of this poor woman afford! Five or six years ago these women made nearly double; the competition chiefly caused by the influx of cheap labour from abroad, has reduced prices some 40 or 50 per cent. Now, even the miserable wages earned are irregularly paid. The sweaters frequently keep their workers waiting for their money, and the more disreputable ones will cheat them out of their just dues. Work too is precarious; there are slack times during the year, when the workers may be idle for weeks together; yet they must still pay rent, and keep body and soul together--if they can. And this brings me back to the proposition from which I started.