... PUBLIC CONSCIENCE. It was not long since children worked in factories nine and ten years of age, but the public conscience was aroused, and the warrior's spirit showed itself, and that thing ceased be. There were those who said that men could pot made ...

... employment of children in factories, the drawbacks of which system they were well ('acquainted with, and which they could, they (chose, rid them sc. (yes erf. The fathers and (mot hers of families could prevent the half-time t work children if they chose ...

... not tied his hands on any question. Denmark sinoe 1913 the law forbade the employment of. children of mh'jol age work any kind, forbade the employment children under 1® On machinery of any kind except as assistants, and limited the hours labour of a child ...

... Liverpool; the infant tality so- terrible that out 1,000 births only 500 attained the age of five years; half time for children in the factories still the rule, the limit of age being only eleven, and the parents themselves strongly supported this ruinous sweating ...

... recent meeting the Burnley Literary and Scientific (as reported' in your columns the 13th inst.) namely, that children in shops and factories are taught deceive and swindle in order that profit may accrue, that even in the cotton mills cotton was loaded ...

... years was suitable age which to send immature child..to work in .factory with the possibility. of ' injuring its physical health for many yean afterwards. Where children did work in ' factories at, 12 yean of age was doubtful whether the. Government should ...

... periods of depression in the steel industry the families of steel workers are supported by the work of the women and children in cigar factories and other so-called ' complimentary' industries. . . . The unmarried immigrants in such cases leave the country ...

... Surely through the advancement of Science it is not beyond the power of men to know and to devise a remedy. Employment of Children Factories, 1819. Any ago .. . ,12 hours per day. 1833. Any age 8 hours per day. 1044. years ...

... Pioneer Factory Reform, The opening Huddcrsfield last Saturday children's playground memorial to Richard should serve recall what the operatives of Lancashire and Yorksnire owe this pioneer of factory reform, It should also remind us that sympathy with ...

... ATMOSPHERE FACTORIES. I desire to give one or two instances of the sort of thing which is to be found even now women inspectors to the 6tate of labour those factories which they bring out in their report, and which men do not bring out because the male ...

... Smith (in the chair). T. Thornber, J. M. Edmondson, and W. H. D. Flack. FACTORY ACT PROCEEDINGS. The George-street Manufacturing Co., Ltd., were summoned fur two breaches of the Factory and Workshops Act —Mr. D. Smith, of Messrs. Smith and Smith, appeared ...

... in industry. 'Factory life under conditions did not, she thought, injure the women, -the children born, but conditions should improved. Factory inspectors during the war had been very lax, and the lifting of heavy weights women factories waa worse now ...