... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... year proposed to do somethins with respeet to the quality of the education given to the children in factories. The enactments through. out the existing law of factory cducation were, he was afraid, almost illusory, for persons had been employed that were ...

... hitionar\, hut admitting that they were I'oirtical, cial, and iio nstrial, and intended to defend the weak, i.i-n and children in factories, against «*p|.res»-ion, t 'rem. dy the effects of undue legiafathm. which a n-p ...

... of the hours of work in factories and the better education of factory children. The report ot Sir John Kincaid, the Scotch Inspector, says— The laws which regulate the employment of women, young persons, and children in factories, continue ...