Wayz-goose.—A term given to the annual dinner customary among printers during the summer months.
White line.—A line of quadrats.
White page.—A blank page.
Working in pocket.—When the hands share equally their earnings on a work.
APPENDIX V.
Miss Emily Faithfull wrote as follows in 1874:
In the end of 1859 our attention was directed to the printing trade as offering a field for the employment of women, and early in the following year the Victoria Press was opened in the face of a great and powerful opposition,[A] and we commenced what was then considered a rash experiment, and perhaps might have proved so, but for the liberal support accorded by friends who appreciated the difficulties we had to encounter from those who tried to check the movement by fair means or foul.
[A] Mr. Gladstone in speaking on monopolies (about the date to which we allude) observed;—“Then we come to the printer’s monopoly—a powerful combination, which has for its first principle that no woman shall be employed, for reasons obvious enough—viz., because women are admirably suited for that trade, having a niceness of finger which would enable them to handle type better than men; they are, however, excluded by the printers’ combination.”