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hftrfttrv lake off her clothes at night , or put them on iti the morning ; h ^ mother would be raging at rie r , because when she eat down she cbtitH bdt get up again through the house / ' Looks on the long 1
hjnirs ' asa , great bondage / Thinks they are no much better thnu trie Israelites in Egypt , and their life is no pleasure to them / When a child , was so tired that she c ? ould seldom eat her supper , and never awoke of herself / * Are the hours to be shortened ?* earnestl y denfcanded one of these girls of the Commissioner who was examining her , ' for they are too long / "—p . 25 , ibid .
The foregoing reports are from Scotland . —The evidence as to England is the same—* * 1 have known the children , ' says one witness , * hide themselves in the stove among the wool , so that they should not go home when the work was over , when we had worked till ten or eleven . I have seep six or eight fetched out of the stove and beat home ; beat out of the mill however . I do not know why they should hide themselve § > unless it was that they were too tired to go home / , t f $ 'IVliftTe seen them fall asleep , and they have been performing thtf&fr work with their hands while they were asleep , after the billey
hjijf ^ t topped , when their work was over . I have stopped and looked atjhem for two minutes , going through the motion of piecening fast aeleep > when there was really no work to do , and they were really doing nothing / "—p . 26 , ibid . ~ -4 be poor children were encouraged to endure this excessive fytjgue . by an understanding that the wages of extra labour
slipuJkt be exclusively their own . It is proved that their regular pay is uniformly given to the parents , and even their peculiar privilege as to extra work was frequently but a cheat upon them : — tr * ' 6 by , ' twelve years old states , * We are paid for over-hours at tfie rate of two-pence for three hours ; I have a 1 \ vaj T s that for myself . What do you do with it ?—I save it for clothes sometime * . I put it
into . a inoiiey-club for clothes . I have worked nine hours over iu one week . I got for that five-pence halfpenny . I gave it my mother , aud sKe made it up to sixpence , and put it into the money-club . She a way a puts by sixpence a week from my wa ^ c . 8 for that . * * Then your mother gets what you earn by the over-hours , don ' t she ? ' — * No ; 1 gets it for myself . ' 4 Does your mother like you to work over ^ hoij ra ?'
— ' No ; she doii ' t like it . She never atkeri for uie to be excused * She knows it would ' nt be no use . Sometimes mother gives me ( u balfr peo ^ y to spend . ' ' What do you do with it ?'— I saves it to buy s ) ioet » . Have never taved above a shilling for that ; mother put more fco , ^ aii $ bought me a pair . I have sometimes bought some good stuff W , flJit . »"—p . 13 , ibid .
nProm the whole evidence collected , the Central Board of Cotritnitsioners carne to the following conclusioiiB : — - ^? lst . That the children employed in all the principal' brfttUL-ber of d »«« u 4 k&tute throughout the kingdom vturk during thts Battle number of hpu r * »• the dultt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/60/
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