The Factory Question, Considered in Relation to Its Effects on the Health and Morals of Those Employed in Factories, and the "Ten Hours Bill" in Relation to Its Effects Upon the Manufactures of England, and Those of Foreign Countries (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...upon the "working classes;" not more extensive views, in one sense, but the reverse. "A meeting was held at Manchester on the 23rd' of "Nov. 1833, to form a 'Regeneration Society, ' the object of "which is to limit the hour9 of work for all labourers to "eight, and at the same time to compel the payment of the "present wages. The movers in this business are the same "persons who were the chief agitators of the Ten Hours Bill, "and one of the resolutions passed at the meeting is that "Messrs. Oastler, Wood, Bull, Sadler, and others, be "earnestly requested to desist from soliciting Parliament for "a Ten Hours Bill, and to use their utmost exertions in aid "of the measures now adopted to carry into effect on the "1st of March next, the regulation of Eight hours work, for "the present full day's wages."--Factory Commission, Suppl. Rep. D. II. The agitation for an "Eight Hours Bill," may not be conducted possibly, by the identical "Short Time Com mittee" which is now working the "Ten Hours Bill," though we by no means think this unlikely, but quite the contrary, for as its members live by agitation, they will continue to agitate; but if they should not, other Committees would be readily found to agitate for so desirable an object. If ten "On the contrary, they assert but the truth, when they aver that tbey think eight hours a day quite enough, even for Adults, to be employed in the impure and wasting atmosphere of a Factory."--Letter from John Doherty, Chairman of the Central Short Time Committee. hours' labour with twelve hours wages be popular, eight hours labour with twelve hours wages will be more popular still; if ten hours' labour would l...