In cases where the well-to-do, comfortable sub-contractor is found, he generally pays fair wages, and does not grossly abuse his power.

When the worst features of sweating are present, the master sweater is nearly always poor, his profits driven down by competition, so that he barely makes a living.

It is, indeed, evident that in many of the worst Whitechapel sweating-dens the master does not on the average make a larger income than the more highly paid of his machinists.

So, too, most of these "sweaters" work along with their hands, and work just as hard.

Some, indeed, have represented this sweating middleman as one who thrusts himself between the proper employer and the working man in order to make a gain for himself without performing any service.