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... OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN FACTORIES. On Monday, two deputations attended the Home Office the one to urge upon the Government the necessity for adopting Mr. Mundella's bill for shortening the hours of labour to women and children in factories, the second ...
... aemployed in a factory or workshop. He said that of f 100,000 half-timers employed in factories and work- shops throughoutthe country 66,000belonged to Lanca- shire; and he contended that the present law was tinjurious to the children both with regard ...
... MORE FACTORY INSPECTORS REQUIRED. co In Comumittee of Supply ott Thursda~y, in the House tli of Commons, Mr. Broadhturet urged on thme IHome lai Secretary the desirability of bringing about an in- an crease in the number of inspectors of factories and ...
... wxomild in- cig duce the children to leave both the factory aiid Jut thle schooal and take a, full-time occupation in con- 'liy nection withisomne trade iiot uinder the Act. lie held on. that the work of children inl the factories was light, beand that it ...
... FACTORY LABOUR. Ior . -. . . - a We have to acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Horner, If the inspector of factories for this district, in supplying us with a copy of the reports of the various inspectors of factories, to the Home Secretary, for the half ...
... THE FACTORY ACTS. The Timcs says that the course of international trade is continually changing, and in approaching the question of factory legislation we must have recourse to large com- parisons of facts; and the figures adduced by Sir Thomas Bazley ...
... race is not attributable to their occupation; that the general impression made by the factory children upon the Inspectors was not unfavourable; that thee factory children are a fairly developed and healthy race, and do not compare unfavourably with agricultural ...
... omission of such a close in the Indian Factory Acts that still enabled :manufacturers in that country to work little children between 8 seven and 12 years of age for 14 hours a day in I elose, badly-ventilated factories in the sweltering heat of the Indian ...
... MEETING OF: FACTO`RY OPERATIVES. On Thursday evening last,, a meeting of factory opera- tives,'was held in the Cock-pit, having been called by placard, in consequenceof a notice which had been given by some the master manufacturers of their intention ...
... t And be it enacted, that the hours of children and young per. t sons in every factory shall be reckoned from the time whenl any t child or young person shall first begin to work in the morning in % such factory. t As the Ten Hours Bill at present stood ...
... so good for thle bed adhealth of children as some people cupposed-(bear, (a in bear). The factory population of Lancashire and N ign York-shire woere the best paid in the country. If they last cut could ?? their children at school till the age of ai bus ...
... the Chief inspector of Factories, and with reference to the alleged danger of the present system to young people, he found that in the past year out of 3,007 informations under the Factory Acts only eight were for allowing children to clean machinery in ...