Sweat Shop Girls
Hathaway Shirt Factory
Waterville, Maine

Dedicated to Laurie Veilleux, 32 years, Hathaway Shirt Co.

Sweat Shop Girls
 bring

 batch tickets
home 
 in their purses.

Averages of 
 one-hundred twenty dozen
 pockets
 stays
 sleeves
 collars
 cuffs
 buttons
 button holes
A day
 make for poor
 piece work
 politics.

Boss Timer
 wants borderline production
 by
 Sweat Shop Girls
 so
he need not pay
 for
Above Averages Work.

Sweat Shop Girls
 bring
batch tickets home
 in their purses
for tomorrow's
 averages.

Sweat Shop Girls
 work
 hard, above averages
building up
collecting for
 tomorrow
 timed
tomorrow
 moved
to another job
building more averages.

Rhea Côté Robbins
9/21/91
 
 

many thanks to Sue Côté in telling me of this book:

Author Congdon-Martin, Douglas 
Title: Hathaway shirts : their history, design, and advertising / Douglas Congdon-Martin. 
Publisher: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd., c1998.
Phys descr: 159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Series: Schiffer book for collectors and designers 
Note: Includes bibliographical references.
English
Subject: C.F. Hathaway and Company -- History. 
Hathaway Shirt Company. 
Men's shirt industry -- Unitd States -- History