The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-10 00:00:00

IXPIOILIL PARLIAMENT.

111017121 OF 00101031.—WassimaT; NAT 2.
40.12.2.2 from resirdies apromm.
LLEACNING AND MIND WOW BILL

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Vassal W. PA7TOI pseessesi • ON= tram the work.
people 14 Kr. Hardamille. Ow* Alt hallptio• of • former
waste*, that they nay verbal in miesseensAls bomber of
4mis ; shoo • Petition bees lie werkgesple of Newt
Realm Thmaltem eextekslag • aim Amid. cad Mating
that their h..ure oflaboor Ind waver exceeded 13 boon •
day. mid 10 hour. on lkenoilays. They anspd that the
fanner petit ea had besiege. up without their Intawlscigs.
Several other Hoe. flgungna presented petitiose for tad
sopuret the 1011,
ler .1 FERIII*BBON had given sake to more an
iaatne-
tw t. o.....nunittee to 'stead the provisions of the kill ;
bat re.t wi.duog to essianger the bill, he would sot pros his
smonehnent.

11; HAZLET moved that the bill should be referred to a
whet committee. He was minims that labour should ant
he oppressed, and that capital should not be earrificed.
Two years ago a select committee bad reported on this sub-
jest. It was sot that thought wroessary to introduce aay
sesisurs and there was !so plater neomeity for legislation
Onve •0.. Ind hem cast by the mover and
soseadar of this 6ill en the chandler of the insider bleachers
throushout the coaster, and thine gentlemen claimed from
tho hones the osportuaity of domain themselves from he
Impabstians. No dot& then were abuses, but these were
cams, and ought not to he made the pound for
1111_. He had done all in his power to abridge the
mid promote the relaxation of workpoople in Man
shaster_ ,
_whore the employers generally had granted the
Ulf -holiday, and paid their wages on Friday. (Hear, hear.)
The hours of labour ia cotton worts were now reduced to
Mia a weak, and they aho had a full week's holiday at
Whitsuntide. la print...ohs, where the demand for
productions was extremely fluctuating, the workmen
were allowed to be employed twelve hours a day during the
busy meow. Thor, was no dimatiefaction whatever
senuopt the workpeopie ; they were perfectly content with
the exist* bows.- The same remark applied to throe ern-
'doped is bleash-worka He should be glad to wee some
shicatiord provinces introduced into this bill—the same
as salted with regard to operatives employed in factories.
The masters of bleach would gladly comma to some
measure which would not interfere with their production ;
and any measure that injured the masters mist sally
empire the operatives. The production of the bleach-works
was not continuous, like that of cotton.factories; owing to
the varying demand for white or coloured goods, the
bleachers and dyers were alternately very slack or very
fully employed. He should be glad to know why the some
law shouh not be applied to them ea to calico-printers.
The hoe. member for &hos would coedne the boom of
Wenches' sad dyers to 60 • week, as was done is cotton
factories ; bat calico-printers, who ware also bleachers and
dyer., were allowed to work 80 hours • week. The owners
eif bleach-works had no wish to rodeos the earnings of their
werkpeople—a result which would inevitably follow from
redwing the lours of labour. After an inquiry by • select
esousittee, it would be easy to frame a bill which would be
acceptable to all parties. It was impossible wholly to die.
pease with night work in bleach grounds. He knew that
the operatives there employed were an athletic race ; the
saes were strong and active, and the women fair and
healthy. Still, he was not an advocate for long hours.
After the charges that had been made spinet the
master bleachers and dyers, they had a right to
the inquiry he asked for, the result of which
be had no doubt would be satisfactory to both
employers and employed. In may black-works the
operatives were only ,pd.o!ployed in summer. and
they were sent into the ha The employers only asked
fee the fairoossideratics the house.

Lord ASHLEY said there bad been committees enough
es this subject, and the home bed ample evidence before it
whereon to found • mean" The precoaers of the bill
W never sought to throw any imputation on the maxim.
bleachers ; they were generally honourable end upright
men , hat it was the system that was complained of, not the
men. (Hear, bear.) If the evils pointed out existed only
in ,see bleachmorka, it would be sufficient to call for the
interposition of the legislature. When the Factory Bill
was bret brought forward the most fatal consequences to
trade were predicted, but now of them had come to pea
U the opponents of the bill were ready to reduce
the hours of Wow, why should they object to
legislation on the abject! The Scotch bleachers were ready
and anxious to shorten the Lou,. of labour ; but they could
net do so unless ethers in the trade did the same. (Hear,
bear.) The West of referring the bill to a select committee
IMAM only be be throw it over for the session. The pre-
sent Age of Weep was slowly detericsating the character
of ear Wilt veers and mothers in the manufacturing
incites. Dods' the Orbesan war it was found that many of
the ma mere panty
_end mit for service, and out of 61:1 who
millietel may ES bad bees approved for service ; and this
we is a great meenere attributable to the system of labour
le the meenieeterieg district.. However high•minded the
meders might he, the mu mud maw ; and they entreated
the Wane to pus die moon is the primmest se Brie. The
promeare of the hal wenld.never its. in till they had m-
eowed this hiet bee their beloved vestry. Wear i
Oelesel PAT ON was of opinion that there had been
and said that be was prepared to legislate
rieVis He would agree to referring. the subject
to a 110111DODDID if as 111111111111 or were given that the
made deed be proceeded with this session, but he would
bows piety to anunbir penlipseemwt.
Lied J. lANN ERA mewled epee the propped, u
MO pet feed to odds uneemonery delay andhe hoped '
the bee wend reject IL The Sim was fi for action on
the sage* led be eereedly mereeted do house to proceed
at awe to • ememilike ef the whole leer.
Sir J. mamas add he genii awe the house he was
merry he he lambed aged is • abort timer discussion. He
had waled for the seemed reeking of the bill and he would do'
teadeg to shelve the meesme. Be was hound to admit
that mew al the piediettem alpine the Factory Bill bad
net bees verilied, and es the ether head be would codas
that of the meseares bed hem banded to the '
Perdue, lid is the bleasbing and dyeiog
emaii=tbg orb it we soemarl to mks ••
Seeeptem the dielledien between these
team sad &Aeries, the Mdse had set hitherto
epee the enisbd Med was applied& to and
dyeing le Embed weld net be applicable to and
only pertiong so he Seethed. In bided was
weed DID eat of do= base Lit is
wiVed and 1=
the
the Immo doors, and con-
they ought to
mey enetieedy delta_ premeemlitrat. On the whole
eta el opiates that it wield he wee to refer this bill to
Plin
a seise seemittee—not to shelve the rseasure, not to out
7.s...tida. for a loop P•vi'xi. an in ceder that further
might bemade. He bed as faith in the sute•
meet" es to the avenge of the haws of employment iu
them works, for at some seasons they were few and at
ethers wiry keg. He thought the instruction to a select
lIIIMIIMIPIII should be drama with are, sued that the in-
=should be made as to the exemptions which should
de. The enactment' should be framed in accord. ,
sees with the Factories and Printers Act. On the whole,
he Auld like the house to act upon the suggestion of she
lea and gallant member for North Lanceahire. In answer
to the noble lord the member for Cricklade, he could not
my that any deterioration had taken place in'tlis popula-
lion Of these islands, and instead of going so far back as
the Crimean war, be might have referred to a recent in.
dance of what wad be done by the pugilists of the
essatry_._Alineghter)
Mr. HENLEY thought the safer coarse would be to refer
the bill to • aided committee, for he ear many of the
IMlDDillMlNSexteaded over several years. He put no faith
to a rrystem of aversive at all. U the longest number of
hours and the shortest somber of hours had been given
they might have formed an apogee If the motion were
restricted in in form be should be willing to refer the
matter to a select committee, but if the bill were referred,
with a wide instruction, it would he no more than a dilatory
pies for postponement to seeder union.
Sr K. COLEBROOKE said some of the bleachers of
Scotland were against all legislation, their ace being so pe-
culiar ; but if legislation were agreed to, then no doubt it
would be better that there should be se equalit of hours
for all parties both in England and g He was
ea Rims that the promoters of the hill should accept the
meggeetiou of the him. and gallant member for North
Lancashire, and submit the measure for inquiry with cer-
tain restrictiona.

Mr. TURNER said be had done his beet to prosiest
legislation on this subject. The house had 'Mimed the
proiciple, and although he submitted, yet he had out changed
ho opiaion. A committee had already inquired into the
subject, and they cane. to the conclusion that no legislation
should take place, but they recommended that the marten
Isould lessen the hours of labour. and he had shown and
would repeat that they had used efforts to do so. His view
was that the hill should be referred, in order that the
clauses might be better framed than they appeared to be at'
present.
Mr. C. W. PACER said be could not besecersd of acting
hastily in the matter becam. last year be opposed the hill
then introduced. He thought, however the time had
are r od for legislation, for they had before the a vast deal
of information which the eouinottee of diet Precull•
There could be ii..uht Out the poor employed is
three bleaching mid Ilyring is .rk, uuderwent a LI sat deal of
hardship, and he thought th- honor should terpim its
authority 10 impmve their condition. Wear, law.)
Mr. ROEBUCK, after carefu!coiediteration, had come to
tbr, eouclusion that speedy legislation was requisite or) this
subject. Even those who were
themselves the
to . legislation upon
it felt emselves conquered be the majority of the house.
He thought it would he • vs.l thing if a welbcoustituted
committee were appointed, on the uaderstanding that tette-
/shoo sleek' take place thin year,,
but that they should only
the power of cousialerin the question, and oot
E....2—evideocc In that case he thought their husiness
so soon be got through that they aught remove all dd.
Seulties, and thebill might he proceeded with in • few days.
The hon. member for Mineheatersaidthat he (Mr. Roebuck)
bed aspersed the deers and bleacher.. Whatever hr had
~soswilad been folly justified by the evidence before the
house, and he emphatically stated that that evidence had
shown the misery inflicted on many of his poor couatmeen
to have here such that to rend of made a OMB'S blood
cantle It was the duty of that house to, protect the poor
and the young, and it behoved them to have bill regard to
the intervals of their poorer countrymen in dealing with the
aubject before theism/ie.
Mr CIM:RETT seal that he but been eutr Peed with
rine..isi us Loom. of leguilation ..0 the !subject Is fort

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