The waste of time, the weariness, and sometimes the expense of 'bus or train thus imposed on them, is in thousands of cases a heavy tax upon their industrial life.

Women working in factories, or taking work home, suffer also many wrongs by reason of their "weaker sex," and their general lack of trade organization.

Unjust and arbitrary fines are imposed by harsh employers so as to filch a portion of their scanty earnings; their time is wasted by unnecessary delay in the giving out of work, or its inspection when finished; the brutality and insolence of male overseers is a common incident in their career.

In a score of different ways the weakness of women injures them as competitors in the free fight for industrial work.
Sec.7.Causes of the Industrial Weakness of Women .-- This brief summary of the industrial condition of low-skilled women-workers will suffice to bring out the fact that the "sweating" question is even more a woman's question than a man's.

The question which rises next is, Why do women as industrial workers suffer more than men?
In the first place, as the physically weaker sex, they do on the average a smaller quantity of work, and therefore receive lower wages.