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emigrating to make room for others? He squats forever, and it isn't called squatting. Talk of emigration and agriculture to factory and city folks, who have neither money nor health to emigrate! We working-people don't envy you your pie or your pictures, if we can have bread. It is the deeper thing which makes us indignant: it is being called fools and simpletons by our employers, and bearing it, because we must have the one dollar. Labor is owned, and women are owned more than men, and will be until they can dare to combine and dare to refuse offers of ill-paid work, larded with harsh words and lunch privileges."

Is there rank, then, in all industrial pursuits? A tailoress declares that "Nowhere are the lines of caste more strictly drawn than among tailoresses and sewing-girls." Those on "custom-work" and those on "sale-work" need not necessarily know each other. Here is a classification given by one who under-

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