The minimum wages which can be obtained for certain kinds of work may by this competition of "bounty-fed" labour be driven considerably below starvation point.

This is no mere hypothesis.
It will be obvious that the class of fur-sewers who, as we saw, earned while in full work from 4s.

to 7s.

in the winter months, and the lower grades of brush-makers and match-makers, to say nothing of the casual "out-workers," who often take for a whole week's work 3s.

or 2s.