New-York tribune., 1841-06-24
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5..,,,,=,oRK, THURSDAY, JUNE "a, la4l

.,,,r SHALL BIZ Dexg FOR The PooE 1-Ihe following
po,,ng facts are extracted from the minutes OF evidence
taken BY British Committee appoted 10 inquire INTO e
workings and evils of the Factory System We do not pub
lsh them merely 10 harrow up the feelings 81 the FeaHet
still les to excite preudce5 against manufacturers we
know that nothing Ike this has get been known IN TINS cou
. we do not believe that Factories general! blame
able for these horrors even England The real eVii a
e.ces, of population for the provided means ot
excessive competition among aborng classes Tor employ
ment-leading - depression Of wages TO inc pun
sboye starvation and the surrender Of the aooreF'' oo
s,J into abiec slavery TO the capitalists the a'.e'
hans o,alv the victims OF excessive conPeo" VIII 'Ne
hi h;.l;,e md j. tiare better condition iof oc-
d rI,,a,;,v ,bon this Let Us hope and earnestly
search for q remedy for these appalling c!'s
NJ. p,,z, Marshall lives at Lecds-worked at Mar
i w A m seventeen years old. Father dead
Sr and self did What could to support mother have
- many an hour the factory Could scarcely get home
,e,ines had TO be trailed home have an iron
nm mn night leg and nv knee contracted Worked in
great pain and misery straight before Sister car
ned me UP TO bed atine The surgeon says 1t Is with
lorg standing the mill and that the qvte dTted
np, and vii never be fsrrnad again
No. o" Stephen Binns stated, have worked IN Mr.
Narshas factory. The work produces detsrmy Il lanes
the children The work exacted from the children Is all that
can possibly be done /, be done without ting
TO hoggng II an offence for any speak another
The used for hot spinning heated to ITO or l2O de-
grees The children hare almost continually TO plunge Their
hands and that The heat OF the rooms ana
the steam almost their bodies, and their clothes
are steamed and If they fall sick, they arc turned
adr directy-wi'hout wagcythoutP provision 1t giri
eonplan of -usagc she is discharged immediately without
any redress The present system running the rising gener-
ation sacrificing the children for patry consdera-
tion?'
No. 8" Samuel Downe. years old when be-
gun work Nr. Marshslls mill Shrewsbury We be-
gan at morning and worked till at night The en-
CINE never stopped, except 40 minutes at dinncrme The
children kept awake by blow box. Very consid
cradle severity used in tha; mill strapped most
severely till could not bear upon chair without hay-
ing pillows and forced lie upon my face in bed at
one time and through that | left was strapped my
legs and then put upon "A mans back and strapped,
and then Strapped and buckcd with two straps TO IN
iron pillar and loggcd After that the Ovcrlooke took .
piece Of and twisted the shape of cord and put 1t
in nv mouth and tied behind my kcad; he thus gagged
me. We r. thus beaten We allowed 10 sit
down. Young beaten well young men,
No A." The ovcrosker examined says, he walks round
the with stick in his hand, and if child fall drowSy
his work. hc touches that child the shoulder and
conducts ci.:ern which is filled with
He then takes the child (hecdcS of SEX by the legs and
dips it head III the cscrn and sends it, work In
that dripping condition the child abors for the remainder of
che day. That is the punishment for drowsness!
:" We have number Of cripplcs. Some crippled
from losing their lnbs-nany from standing long. 1t
first begins with pain in the ankc after that they will ask
The overooker let them sit down-but they not
They then begin be weak in the knccthcn noc-knced
after that their feet outthey become spayfooted,
and their ankles swell - big my fists. know many de-
formed in the way described