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... Women and Children Ln Factories. — Mr Cross, Home& Secretary, vesterday received a deputation, headed by Lord Shaftesbury, who urged the adoption of Mr Mundella's bill for shortening and regulating the hours of labour of women and children in factorigs ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1974
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

The fact the freeze lasted for two weeks and over a holiday period added to the potential for disaster

... call-outs in Lothian andr%,OOO requests for temporary accommodation, the start of the school term tomorrow delayed for children, Aberdeen factories left without water until this weekend, £3m spent on repairs in Glasgow, the suffering public queuing by water tankers ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1996
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DARTS WARNING

... ga led to shopkeepers & withdraw the dart from sale and to parents to take them away from their children. FACTORIES . The Scottish Develor- erect two factory units at Mansfield o&uare, Hawick, ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1982
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Neighbourhood watch worthwhile

... through traffic @ Hilly ground @ Poor gardening condi tions. @ Properties a long distance from schools. if vou have children. @ Nearby factories or other noisv establishments. ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1995
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Tuesday, 9 December 1997 THE SCOTSMAN tests

... national ai ity strategy include: verting traffic away fron tion hot spots: troducing temporary orto keep children indoors: witting down factories h may be responsible for itants on a given day. it the private motorist, reisible for the vast majority affic ...

Published: Tuesday 09 December 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

T L Vested interests

... T L Vested interests As a result, the children toiling in the factories of Lancashire and Yorkshire in particular are still labouring in #Mdvflmflfivfi: apprentices are m,m-uum flogged when their ::uu mw-z orphn-aflodl‘bom who at the age of seven was apprenticed ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1967
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Investing in S Africa 1 Seton Place, Edinburgh December 12, 1970

... Germany legalised the extermination of the Jews. In our own country it was at one time lawful to employ very young children in mines and factories. The South African economy is based on racial discrimination, the exploitation of the defenceless and what is ...

Published: Tuesday 15 December 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Thai girls are slaves to fashion

... firms of using some factories where children aged betweeen 12 and 14 work 15-hour days. On Monday night, British shoppers and caul%gug buyers were shocked to see the child slaves filmed at work by secret TV cameras. In one factory, the ihildren claimed ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1984
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Brave old world

... better; more civi}Mmmmpmm ! 3ad been all but absolute. F ;us‘ sis a peculiarly western of course. Sometimes I B TRk children into factories. __As a student of human -pature, I don’t believe in prom one little bit. Not, at wlththerauoulrnof my mind. It is ...

Published: Monday 05 March 1984
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 654 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The family unit—are its days really numbered? LYNNE GLADSTONE-MILLAR views its present situation and finds room ..

... time, strength or energy to darn a sock. And think of the lives of the children themselves . . we all know about the exploitation of the children in factories, but what about the children who were driven mercilessly, however unwillingly, at the looms by their ...

Published: Thursday 29 November 1962
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 766 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

. e – LN A s L * – .- Jek »| o » A reconstruction by DAVID KEMP and MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

... growing concern about the use—and abuse—of young children in factories and coal mines and other employment. A Select Committee of the House of Commons has recently been taking evidence on the state of the children employed in the Manufacturies of the United ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1967
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 853 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Growing concern over use of child labour

... legislation to reduce the number of children working in factories in China, and in countries such as Portugal. ) But it is a problem which is starting to increase in the UK too. “There is a considerable number of children at work in the east end of London ...

Published: Tuesday 11 October 1994
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 29 | Tags: none