D) We can give employment to from 50 to 100 girls, at the usual
wages paid in this place. Our custom is to pay to new hands one
dollar per week, & board in the Weaving & Dressing Rooms, &
one dollar & a half & board, in the Carding & Spinning Rooms,
until they can tend the Machines without assistance. After that
they are paid for all the work they can get off.
D.) 35.
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-John Clark, July 27, 1847
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