The New York herald., 1845-04-24

10 English and Scotch, and not one hand in all
works under Is years OF age, either male or female
psny in their i've mills Is about laOO females and 400
males"
inquiry which your Committee have not included in the
foregoing remarks, and which we could not include
without making our report Of too voluminous Cha.
rscter
We state, however, in this connection, that the
evidenc which we obtained from gentlemen connected
with the owell Mills all goes to prove that the more m
egent and moral the operatives are the valuable
they are 10 the employers and the greater will be the
Your Committee have not been able to give the petit
TONERS from The other towns in this State hearing We
believed tbot the whole covered by the petition
from Lowell and to that petition have given our un-
divided attention. and have come to the conclusion
that legislation is not necessary at the pre-
sent time, and for the following reasons:-
lst That law limiting the hours Of labor il enacted
at all should be of general That it should ap
ply to individuals or copatnershps well to corpora
tions Because, if it is wrong TO labor more than ten
hours in corporation it Is also wrong when applied to
that complaint justly be made against Incorpo
rated companies regard the hours of labor than
o. against n .h or ~ But Wi, BE-
the Legislature and, therefore,, the Legisature
can csntroi them in this, as in other matter This
to certain extent Is true, but your committee
tons subject the control OF the Legislature indvd
usls ALSO and it soud appear that the public
norals the physical condition, the social well being Of
society endangered from this cause or from any
avert the evil.
Id Your committee believe that the factory system a
called is not injurious to health than other
kinds Of indoor labor. That law which would compel
all factories in to their machine
but 10 hours out of the a. while those in Maine New
Hampshire Rhode Island and other States in the Unen
restricted at ALL the effect would be to close the
gate Of every mill in the State. 1t would be the
closing mills day in every week and although
capital enterprise and industry willing
and needs be- with European nations yet it is easy
tb could not compete with sister States
much less with foreign countries, if restriction OF this
nature was put upon our manuiactories.
I'd twould be impossible TO egslate to restrict the
hours of labor, without affecting very materially the
ton of wages and that matter which experience has
taught be much better regulated by the parties
themselves than by the Legislature Labor In Massashu-
sets is very different commodity from what s in for
eign countries Here labor equality with capital
and indeed controls it, and it will be while free
education and free institutions exist And although We
may And fault and that labor works too many hours
and labor il too severely tasked yet we attempt BY 10
gisstion within it, orbit, and interfere with s
Labor intelligent enough to make its bar
gains and look out tor its interests without any in.
proof to convince them hat Massachusetts, and
sachusetts women equal this and will take care Of
had from the intelligent and virtuous end
who appeared in support OF this petition before the Com
mittee.
4th. The Committee do not wish to be understood
conveying the impression that there abuses in the
present of labor; think there abuses;
think that many improvements may be made, and We be-
ieve will be made by which labor will not be severely
tasked it s We think that 1t would be better
the hours for labor were ess more time allowed
for meals il attention paid to ventilation and
pure air in manufactures and work shops and many
other matters We acknowledge all th7 bat we say the
remedy is with We l0ok for in the progressive
improv in and science In higher appreciation
Of destiny in less love for money, and more
ty Your Committee, therefore while they agree with
the petitioners in their desire to lessen the buthens i'm
posed upon labor differ only as to the means BY which
| WILLIAM sCHAULER, Chairman.