They were tailors--or, rather, what are sometimes called slop-shop, or clothing men.

Let it not be supposed that tailors alone are the oppressors of workwomen.

In most of the employments at which females engage, especially such as admit of a competition in labor, advantage is taken of the eager demand for work, and prices reduced to the lowest possible standard.

In the eager scramble for monopolizing more than a just share of custom, or to increase the amount of sales by the temptation of extremely moderate rates, the prices of goods are put down to the lowest scale they will bear.

If, in doing this, the dealer was content with a profit reduced in some proportion to the increase of his sales, no one would have a right to complain.