They brought in public school boys, actually, to time girls on the jobs they were doing, these boys didn’t go across the board, moderate operator, they went for the young girls, you see, and more or less chatted them up, and got these young girls on their side. If you had ten minutes for a dozen of work, then you get six dozen into the hour, but if you could in fact time it so that you got more garments into the ten minutes then that’s where you got more beads to, more bead to the hour. They timed young girls just come out of school, I was 23, something like that, when this happened, so whilst I was a qualified worker, I wouldn’t probably been as quick as some of these youngsters at sixteen, and so what ever you got over those 60 beads a minute you got a bonus. Now our basic pay for a weeks work, which was 48, 52 hours, you got 32 and six a week. Now anything you could do above that, how many more garments you could get into sixty minutes then you got a bonus on it.
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