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    South Australia - Industrial Relations

    Sweating

    Also see under South Australia - Women - Industrial Relations.

    An Essay on Sweated Labour

    Sweated Labour

    The insidious "sweating" of female labour by callous employers led many women into brothels and once there they, in the fullness of time, became introduced to vice, lechery and disease:

    To conclude, it would be fitting, perhaps, to reproduce the following tilt at the inappropriate use of wealth which appeared in the local press at this period; its message is still applicable today:

    Driven to Prostitution

    There were other women who used prostitution as a means to provide for themselves and their families:

    To counter this evil "The Women of the White Cross" frequented the streets of Adelaide on a different mission:

    To conclude these brief remarks on the "social evil", as prostitution was termed in the Victorian era, consider a comment emanating from a young woman committed to a life of prostitution which gives an indication of a certain hypocrisy among the upper classes of Adelaide society:

    Also see Adelaide - Prostitution.

    General Notes

    "Seamstresses in Adelaide" is in the Register,
    30 July 1870, page 7d.

    "The Song of the Shirt" is in the Register,
    24, 27 and 30 August 1887, pages 7g, 5b-7f and 3f.

    A cartoon is in The Lantern,
    21 December 1889.

    "The Sweating System" is discussed in the Register,
    5 April 1888, page 4h,
    19 November 1888, page 5c,
    Observer,
    24 November 1888, page 30e,
    Register,
    11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18 and 24 December 1889, pages 4g-7a, 4g-6e, 7g, 7d, 7h, 4g-6a and 7h,
    Advertiser,
    18 November 1889, page 6f,
    10, 12, 13, 16, 20 and 24 December 1889, pages 3g, 4c, 6c, 6c-7a, 4c and 6e,
    30 June 1890, page 4f.

    Also see Register,
    24 February 1890, page 7d,
    19 and 28 July 1890, pages 4h and 7g,
    4 and 11 August 1890, pages 6e and 3g,
    Advertiser,
    4 June 1891, page 7c,
    Register,
    24 August 1891, page 6g,
    4 July 1892, page 6g,
    28 February 1893, page 6d,
    6 May 1893, page 4h:

    "The Building Trade - The Sweating System" is in the Register,
    16 May 1893, page 7h.

    "Who Are the Sweaters" is explored in the Advertiser,
    15 May 1893, page 7g; also see
    27 July 1893, page 6f,
    25 November 1895, page 4f,
    Weekly Herald,
    18 October 1895, page 2d,
    Register,
    3 and 15 March 1897, pages 7f and 3f,
    30 June 1899, pages 4f-6c,
    6, 7, 18 and 24 July 1899, pages 5a, 7i, 4i and 3e,
    20 November 1899, page 6f.

    "Alleged Sweating in a Laundry" is in the Register,
    10 January 1894, page 7e.

    "Sweating the Seamstresses" is in the Express,
    20 January 1897, page 4c.

    "Sweating in Adelaide" is in the Register,
    12 November 1896, page 10d,
    Weekly Herald,
    18 June 1898, page 6b,
    "The Curse of Sweating" in the Observer,
    8 and 22 July 1899, pages 41 and 14c,
    Weekly Herald,
    22 July 1899, page 6a,
    "Sweating in Adelaide" in the Express,
    25 and 26 July 1900, pages 4b and 3f,
    Chronicle,
    28 July 1900, page 32a.

    "Display of Sweated Goods" is in the Observer,
    22 July 1899, page 14c.

    Information on the Anti-Sweating League is in the Weekly Herald,
    23 June 1900, pages 6a-9c; also see
    4 and 11 August 1900, pages 6a-9c and 6b.

    "The Factories Act - The Sweating Evil" is traversed in the Advertiser,
    20 November 1899, page 6f,
    4, 26, 28 and 30 July 1900, pages 8b, 8d, 4g-6d-10b and 7c.

    Also see Register,
    5, 10, 14, 28, 30 and 31 July 1900, pages 4c, 3d, 11h, 8e, 7b and 4d,
    7 and 14 August 1900, pages 6e and 6i.

    "Vilest of Sweaters" is in The Herald,
    28 June 1902, page 8a; also see
    12 July 1902, page 7b,
    23 August 1902, page 7b,
    18 and 25 October 1903, pages 6d and 8a,
    28 March 1903, page 1c,
    11 April 1903, page 8d,
    Register,
    13 October 1903, page 6b.

    "Sweating in the Clothing Trade - Starvation Prices" is in the Advertiser,
    2 November 1903, page 5h; also see
    3 November 1903, page 4c and
    Register,
    6 and 10 November 1903, pages 4d and 3a,
    3 and 10 August 1904, pages 4b and 5c.
    "Labour and the Church - Presbyterians on Sweating" is in the Register,
    7 May 1904, page 8g.

    "Domestic Service and Sweating" is in the Register,
    5, 8 and 10 March 1904, pages 8e, 6g and 3h.
    Also see South Australia - Social Matters - Domestic Servants.

    Further information is to be found in the Advertiser,
    7 April 1904, page 4c,
    14 May 1904, page 10d,
    13 July 1904, page 6b,
    12, 17 and 18 August 1904, pages 4c, 6g and 4c,
    3 May 1905, page 4d.

    A letter written by E. Siemer, Secretary of the Working Women's Trade Unions, is in the Advertiser,
    15 October 1904, page 5e:

    Also see Register,
    15 and 30 November 1904, pages 6i and 3h,
    17, 18 and 21 July 1906, pages 6c, 4c and 11d,
    Advertiser,
    11, 15, 17 and 30 November 1904, pages 6d, 7f, 6c and 7b,
    19 June 1906, page 6b,
    19 July 1906, page 6c.

    "Indirect Sweating - Holding Back Wages" is in the Advertiser,
    24 January 1907, page 6d,
    "Sweated Girls" on
    31 March 1911, page 7e.

    "Abolition of Sweating" is in the Advertiser,
    27 September 1937, page 18d.

    Industrial Relations - Choose again

    Trades Hall

    "A Site for the Trades Hall" and surrounding acrimony is to be found in the Express,
    6 March 1886, page 3c,
    28 September 1886, page 2c,
    Register,
    12, 18 and 22 July 1889, pages 7d, 4f-7a and 7d,
    23, 24 and 29 July 1889, pages 4f-6a, 6c and 6a,
    3, 8, 20 and 23 August 1889, pages 7h, 3d, 4f and 3h,
    5, 7 and 10 September 1889, pages 7g, 7f and 3h:

    "Trades Hall - A Brief Retrospect" is in the Register,
    2 September 1895, page 6d; also see
    14 and 16 March 1896, pages 4d-6d and 6b; also see
    Observer,
    18 May 1895, page 25e,
    Weekly Herald,
    2 August 1895, page 3a,
    17 March 1900, page 7b.

    A Trades Hall Art and Industrial Exhibition is reported in the Chronicle,
    3 April 1897, page 18a.

    "The Trades Hall and Mr C. Tucker" is in the Observer,
    26 August 1899, page 55c.

    An obituary of George Thomson is in the Observer,
    11 June 1910, page 40b.

    "Sabbath Still Sacred - Trades Hall Not to be Opened" is in the Register,
    7 January 1911, page 14h.

    "The People v the Trades Hall" is in the Observer,
    10 February 1912, page 33a.

    A cartoon titled "Well-Known Faces at Trades Hall" is in The News,
    27 May 1937, page 8.

    Industrial Relations - Choose again