10 DECEMBER 1887, Page 31

THE " SWEATING " SYSTEM.

[To Y.. EDITOR 07 THE a. SPECTATOR:]

Sta,—My article on "The Sweating System" in the Fortnightly Review of this month contains a sentence which, I am sorry to say, is very clumsily written. I mean the sentence (part of which you quoted last week) referring to the wages of persons -employed in the trunk-making trade. This reads as if I stated these wages at 25s. to 30s. in the case of men, 9s. to 20s. in the case of women, per day. These sums are, of course, the weekly wages of these workpeople. If you will kindly give this correction a place in your columns, you will much oblige me.—

We are compelled by the great pressure on our space this week, to leave out nearly the whole of our Correspondence.