... when Mr H. Bruce moved the second reading of the Factory Acts Extension Bill, a measure founded on the report of Commissioners appointed to inquire into the employment of young children in factories. The Hon. Gentleman explained that the present was ...

... And it is a pleasing thought that it was first directed to women and children employed in factories, afterwards to those employed in mines ; and then to the education of children so employed, the Act in time extended to other trades. ...

... years of the century children were employed in factories from an early hour in the morning till a late hour in the evening when not more than six years old, sometimes only five. The mills were ill-ventilated, and so the children breathed a vitiated atmosphere ...

... Conference at Berne is to discuss the prohibition of Sunday labour, the minimum age when children should employed factories, the prohibition young women and children in unhealthy occupations, and the limitation of the hours of labour of women and young ...

... arliamentary Committee on the Bill for erring the labour of children in factories. tever may be the terrors of slavery—and are indeed terrible—they can scarcely be c e ded by the barbarities of the factory sysit °I that day. Were it not that dozens of ne, ' - ...

... that any cotied was put in the defeudeia’ esiablbhmeiit, and even if there had. this would m l have «♦en ruough f. r children in factories, the eiiff--üb-t tutei uints out. rou-t be prutectsd agaiust themselves T..e removal of waste anv time I* *'cleaning ...

... (Friday) the Home Secretary will introduce the new Factory Bill. In its main provisions it simply aims at a consolidation of existing Acts. So far as the education and ages of children employed in factories and workshops, and the hours of labour for women ...

... Important debate the chief points of Mr Mundella*s Fact Bill. The chief features in the bill were -that the age children employed in factories should be raised from eight to ten years : that the age of half-timers shall be raised from thirteen fourteen ...

... n 'kee what has been done within the century in behalf of children employed in factories. It was uncommon thing, before reform was attempted, for the populous | -~n in London to bind children to the proprietors of cotton mills in Lancashire, •ending them ...

... highest development. It was first directed to the protection of women and children employed in factories, and afterwards to those employed mines; then to the education children so employed, with Uie gradual extension of these Acts to other trades. Legislation ...

... as the 'hour of children becomes more valuable. They intended to enable those who have been obliged to leave school early and begin work to 01 1tinue their education, and bring up their lee may. In America, children employed in factories durin g the day ...

... UrindiDfc life down from it* mark ; And the children's souls which (iod was calling sunward Spun blindly In the dark.** The bitter cry of the children was heard, and a remedy, in part, was found in the first Factory Bdl, and which further legislation has extended ...