The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-18 00:00:00

THE FACTORY SYSTEM.

Hours of labour of other trades than the cotton, in
which children are employed in conjunction with adults
(delivered in and proved on oath, and inserted in Appendix
to the Evidence on the Feetory System, No. 34)
Earthenware and Porcelain—Staffordshire and Derby-
-12 to 15 hours daily.

File Cutters—Warrington.-72 hours weekly.
Nailmakers—Birmingbam—(children begin at 9 years
old), 12 hours daily.
Iron Works, Forges, and Mills—Warwickshire and
Staffordshire—(boys employed at 8 years of age), 12 hours
daily, and in alternate weeks 12 hours nightly.
Ironfounders— Ditto (ditto), 12 hours daily.
Collieries—Ditto--(boys begin at 8 years old), 12 hours
daily, underground.
Ditto—Lancashire—(Ditto, ditto), 11 hours
under ground, 12 and 13 above ground.
Ditto—St. Helen's and Worsley--girls as well as boys
are employed, ditto, ditto.
Glass Trade—Warwickshire and Staffordshire—Chil-
dren employed from 9 to 10 yeas old, 12 hours daily, 12
hours nightly.
Wire Card Makers—Halifax, &c.—Employ chiefly
children 12 to 13 hours daily.
Watchmakers—Coventry-12 hours daily iu winter,
14. in summer.

Pinmakert—Warrington—Employ younger children
than the cotton mills of that Oder, 14 hours daily.
Needlemakers--Gloucester-13 hours daily.
Manufacturers of Arms—Birmingham—Children begin
from 7 to 9 years old, 13 hours daily.
Calico Printing—Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire,
&c.—Boys employed from 8 years old and upwards, 12 to
14, 15, and 18 hours daily, sometimes all night.
Worsted Mille—Leeds--13 hoar, daily.
Ditto—Halifax-14 to 15 and 16 daily, and sometime e
all night.
Ditto—Keighly—some of them all night.
Ditto—Extrick--12 hours daily.
Worsted Mills—Norwich—Girls begin at 10 years old,
14 hours daily, and part of the people all night.
Ditto—Manchester-14 hours daily.
Flax Mills—Leeds, litc.-13 hours daily.
Dito—lialifax-14, lb, and 16 boors daily ; several if
them all night.
Ditto—Shrewsbury-71 hours weekly.
Ho4iery—Leicester—Boys, girls, women, and men, em-
ployed, 12 hours daily in Winter, and 18 in summer.
Ditto—Nottingham-15 hours daily.
Ditto—Mansfield—Employ a great number of children
hours longer than at any cotton-mill in that neighbour-
hood.

Lace Manufactory—Ditto—Children employed as soon
as they can use the needle, ditto, ditto.
Ditto—Nottingham—Children employed at seven years
old and upwards, 12 hours daily.
Ditto—Tiverton-14 hours daily.
Silk Mills—Derby-72 hours weekly.
Ditto—Macclesfield-76 hours weekly.
Ditto—Nottingham—Children employed at eight years
old and upwards, 13 hours daily.

Ditto—Congleton—Employ near 2,000 persons, of
whom the greater part are children from five years old
upwards, 12 hours daily.

Ditto—Stockport—Children as in cotton factories,
boors as in cotton factories.

Power Loom Weaving—Ditto—Ditto, ditto, ditto.
Cotton Weavers by hand--Laneashire, Yorkshire,
Che►hire, &c.—Children of all ages work the same hours
as adults, 14 to 16 hours daily.
Draw-boy Weaving—Paisley—Children from seven
years old upwards, extensively employed as drawers to
weavers, 15 hours daily.
Ditto Glasgow—ln our village near 1,000 children from
eight to twelve years old are employed, till 11 or 12 at
night, or even till one in the morning.

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