There it was an inquiry into the cost of living in the town where the match factory was located.
And then the judge summoned the factory owner to the Court of Arbitration, and this is what he said to the man: "It is impossible for these girls to live decently or healthfully on the wages you are now paying.

It is of the utmost importance that they should have wholesome and healthful conditions of life.

The souls and bodies of the young women of New Zealand are of more importance than your profits, and if you cannot pay living wages it will be better for the community for you to close your factory.

_It would be better to send the whole match industry to the bottom of the ocean, and go back to flints and firesticks, than to drive young girls into the gutter._ My award is that you pay what they ask." Does that sound like justice to you?
It does to me; it does to the eight million women in the world who have learned to think in human terms..