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In October 1840, the Reverend Abel Charles Thomas of the First Universalist Church started a monthly publications by and for Lowell Mill Girls. As this publication grew its popularity women started to contribute poems, ballads, essays and fictions, in which their characters tells the readers the harsh working conditions, situations and their lives in the factories and in the boarding house. On of the essays the girls published in the Lowell Offering was about the suicide of the Lowell girls due to sufferings.
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General wages of the workers was from three to five dollars per week. Due to the economic depression of 1830's investors and managers deducted the wages, which later led to turnout for strikes in 1834 and 1836.
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In February 1834. due to the request from the directors of Lowell textile mills to the manager, they had an agreement to impose reduction of 15% in wage. After Lowell girls had serious meetings and discussion in which they decided to turnout or strikes. The women planned for turnout immediately withdraw their saving from two local banks causing the banks to ran-out, but this strike failed. Again in 1836, the girls faced the same problem which again cause them to turnout or strikes. In this strike they got support from enormous communities. Unfortunately that was also an unsuccessful attempt.
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In 1845, Lowell female textile workers started an organizations called the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association. The first action of this association was to send a joint petition signed by thousands of workers to the Massachusetts General Court demanding a ten hour work day.
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General court established a committee to investigate this petition, even though committee understood the harsh working conditions and situations they didn't had any right to reduce the working hours to ten per day. Lowell female workers continue to petition to Massachusetts General Court, and later factories agreed to reduce the work day to 11 hours.