... OF CHILDREN IN FACTORIES. A fortnight ago we referred to the premiere exerted by parents of children, and the not 'infrequent subterfuges resorted to, in order to get them employed in factories, though limier the age when they can be so legally. The demand ...

... CHILDREN IN FACTORIES. Scotsman. Lord Palmerston obtained leave to bring in a Bill to limit the hours of employment of children in factories. —The Bill was read a first time. Tuesday, July 19. EDINBURGH ANNUITY TAX BILL. The Lord Advocate moved the second ...

... THE FIFTY-FOUR HOURS BILL. It is natural for the mill and factory operative' be disappointed with the pogrom, or rather no pewee; which the Fifty-Four Hours Factory Bill made in the two sermons in each of which it wan introduced. Whatever view may be ...

... first quarter of last century. as the following will show. A factory overseer in Dundee, giving evidence before • Parliamentary Committee in 1833, as to the treatment of children • in factories, said he was entered to a flax mill at five years of age by ...

... REPORT OX SCOTTISH FACTORIES. The Report of Sir John Kincaid, Inspector of Factories, for the half-year ending the 31st October, 1858, has just been printed. He says: It is a great satisfaction to me to be able to repeat so often that the laws which regulate ...

... THE FACTORY BILL Mr Cross made an important announcement on the subject of Mr Mundella's Factory Bill in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The Home Secretary suggests a compromise which virtually limits the hours of work to .56i hours in the week. Ten ...

... HAPPY CHILDREN EVEN THE FACTORIES WERE. DECORATED.—Factories and workshops in the town were all gaily A DAY CHILDREN W ILL, REMEMBER. —One thing that the children will not forget in connection with DAINTY CHILI/RE N WITH DECORATED CYCLES ...

... Lordships met at five this afternoon. FRE FACTORIES BILL. Earl BEAUCHAMP moved the second reading of the Factories (Health of Women) Bill, the object of which is to regulate the labour of women and children in factories. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY and Lord ABERDARE ...

... contention—if support is needed—is to be found in the evidence given by a Dundee factory overseer before a Parliamentary Committee in 1833, as to the treatment of children in factories. He stated that he was entered to a flax mill at five years of age by his ...

... should have voted against it; but it must be admitted that that measure strictly applied to the hours of labour of children in factories. In answer to the question as to what his principle in respect to labour was, it was this, perfect freedom—thinking ...

... Craufurd not press his amendments. Mr. accordingly withdrew them. The Rill w then passed. OTHER BILLS. The Employment of Children in Factories Rill was read a third time and passed. The Sheriffs (Scotland) Rill passed through committee. Until on Horses 1st for ...

... health and lives of those entiaged in factories. Mr Coghill said lead-poisoning was diminishing, and there was no necessity for further rules or legislation. Mr John Burns pointed to the growth of fatalities in factories as evidence that some more protection ...