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XI.—PASSING EYENTS.
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OVERWORK OF WOMEN AND GIRLS. to While a ...
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Xi.—Passing Eyents.
XI . —PASSING _EYENTS .
Overwork Of Women And Girls. To While A ...
OVERWORK OF WOMEN AND GIRLS . to While Bill on which tlie p has oint been of going introduced 1 to press into , our Parliament attention has by been Mr . Crook _caUecE
for a the protection of women and children employed in , bleach works , , etcThe Bill has passed its first readingand will come on a second
time . before the publication of our next _number , . It seeins therefore desirable to draw attention to ( the subject ; even though unable
, to do deal is to with lace it b so efore full our y as readers we should the terrible have desired details . of ALL the that sufferings we-can
inflicted p by overwork on the -women and children engaged in those the branches Ten of Hours factory ' Bill labor Our which extracts do not are come taken under almost the operation at random of
. _, from a pamphlet , _" Wrongs which . Cry for Redress , " by Mr . Thomas Hopley . _*
near " _Samttei Bolton . , Price They emp examined loy about . —* T four was hundred in the employmen people . It t was of Messrs mostly . from _Ainsworth eleven _, with them
from the till two spring April o ' cl and o 1853 ck in throug to -the April morning h the 1854 summer , before we were , for we six busy left or off , eight as . well In the m as onths last I can year of remember the I was year ; , throu that g is to h , ,
we twelve went to , work or two from in the six morning to . half-past , and , ; some someti times mes , _ct after tfour that _, and time ; left .. o * _-ff from * All ten the . le , in the worksaveraged these number of hourssome even more . '
peop Girls il [ Observe and boys that were ; , this thus dreadful working toil - ' was thro , not ; h . an the occasional , spring qt and exceptional through fact the _.
. ug summer , ifor . six or . eight . months of the year . ' ] — "At times , if a sudden order has come , we have not than been in bed more hours than and
sixhal teen f of unrest ghteen out hours of the in the twenty week -four ' ( averag , during ing seven more successive twenty days -one and nights for a s g miss ions irls ioner and of ' the boys appointed Acts , some for of to the inquire them bette no r how Regulation more far than it twelve may of Mills be years adv and isable old ) Factories . — to Report extend to of the Bleaching the Provi Com - -
_WorJcs _, pp . 10 , 11 , Nos . 81-84 . when " William 1 first went _Johnson . to . work , finisher . . 1 work .- ? - ed ' I -. first am . twenty Jor child Mr -four . - Fletcher of years eleven of , Ley age lands . I , was ten attwelve eleven years .
hours At o ' clock my ); commencemen on ' then , Sunday we started nig t ht ' , ( that a at nd six is wprked , o when ' clock till he on was ei Tuesday ght a o ' clock morni on ng Monday , and ) ' - I worked . began night till ,, ' . t twelve wenty
s topping t night' . .. ( # ei ¦¦ ¦ g * hteen .. # I have hours been ); ' and at a worse we did place that than for that two for or t 7 long vree hours _mopiths si without nce j _, ab Whowell ' sTwo Brooks . . # . # ' * There were a deal of young girls , one , or
twotinder ten , years of age /—Ibid ., p . 9 , No . 68 . [ To have full perception ofthe severity of this toilit should be borne
" a - , standing in . mind that and . a ' working very large . hard number ' fas of rap the idl workers y as possible in these ) during establishments almost , the are is shown in evidence that sometimes
for ting whole days down of in these succession ( save _lengthened for their the g hastil irls periods and y-snatched . boys It have meals no opportunity ) during the whatever whole , of of sit the
time spent at the- "works . — -Reports , passim . ]" was " emp John loyed Hamer at _. Messrs , finisher . ¦ Hollins . — ' I _' , have . Toot been le Brid fourteen ge , Bolton ( years . in * > the # _bleaching One morning - trade . , we I -.
"* London : _Houlstop . andWright .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/69/
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