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On the Employment of Children in Factories and Other Works in the United ... Leonard Horner No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 113 - No child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, unless such child shall have attended some public or private day-school, where instruction is given by a teacher qualified...
Page 115 - It is obvious, that the consent of two parties is necessary 114 to the infraction of this law, and to the infliction of this highest species of injustice upon the children whom it was designed to protect. Not only must the employer pursue a course of action, by which the godlike powers and capacities of the human soul are wrought into thorough-made products of ignorance, and misery, and vice, with as much certainty and celerity as his raw materials of wool or cotton are wrought into fabrics for the...
Page 118 - ... to that independence for which they have secretly pined, and to which they have looked forward, not merely as the period of emancipation, but of long-delayed indulgence ; when they become strong in the passions and propensities that grow up spontaneously, but are weak in the moral powers that control them, and blind in the intellect which foresees their tendencies ; when, according to the course of our political institutions, they go, by one bound, from the political nothingness of a child to...
Page 118 - ... surface. But the punishment for such an offence, will not be remitted, because its infliction is postponed. The retribution, indeed, is not postponed, it only awaits the full completion of the offence ; for this is a crime of such magnitude, that it requires years for the Criminal to perpetrate it in, and to finish it off thoroughly, in all its parts. But when the children pass from the condition of restraint to that of freedom, — from years of enforced but impatient servitude to that independence...
Page 107 - SECT. 2. The owner, agent or superintendent of any manufacturing establishment, who shall employ any child in such establishment contrary to the provisions of this act, shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered by indictment, to the use of common schools in the towns respectively where said establishment may be situated.
Page 1 - An Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty William the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and three, intituled An Act to regulate the Labour of Children and Young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom...
Page 116 - ... finished article, may be so reduced as, on the whole, to make it profitable to manufacture by steam, then that agency will be forthwith employed: and, if steam is employed, there is no assignable limit to the amount of a manufacturing population that may be gathered into a single manufacturing district. If, therefore, we would not have, in any subsequent time, a population like that of the immense city of Manchester, where great numbers of the laboring population live in the filthiest streets,...
Page 3 - Thomson, was prevailed upon to propose to parliament that the restriction to eight hours' daily work should be limited to children under twelve years of age ; but, happily, parliament was firm, and would not yield. And what was the result? Not a single mill throughout the United Kingdom stopped a day for want of hands' -p. 3. ' It is very satisfactory,
Page 115 - ... vicious, and abandoned as themselves. The whole class of parents who cannot obtain employment for their children at one place, but are welcomed at another, will circulate through the body politic, until at last they will settle down as permanent residents in the latter ; like the vicious humors of the natural body, which, being thrown off by every healthy part, at last accumulate, and settle upon a diseased spot. Every breach of this law, therefore, inflicts direct and positive injustice, not...
Page 3 - ... should apply to children of twelve, the difficulties and evil consequences would be vastly increased ; and that, if it were attempted to enforce the restriction as far as thirteen, a very large proportion of the mills in the country must of necessity stop. Government were applied to to prevent the impending evil ; the inspectors were appealed to by the government, and they stated that the assertions had been so often and so confidently made to them, that they could not venture to set up their...