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Minutes of the inquiry into each are hereinafter given in full.
The fourth of these causative errors enumerated is —
In summoning these girls to a long day of labor, and requiring their unremitting attention to it, under conditions and circumstances radically unfavorable to health.
That the hours of labor are long, that the ' attention to the work in hand must often be most exacting, and that the attendant conditions in which too many of our forms of labor are prosecuted are “ only evil, and that continually,” are perhaps the most earnestly protested and readily patent of any of the claims put forward by the advocates of the improvement in the conditions of working-people.
The postulate of these advocates * in England, the examination of which created the commission before referred to, was, that “ten hours and a half of monotonous, unceasing labor, even under the most healthy
Bridges and Holmes, liep., p. 4.