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Mr. Mandley' supported LordAsh ley V bill. * ■ Such had been the improvements, within the last fifty/years, of mechanical science, and such our consequently increased means of production , that British merchants were themselves the afctivc competitors abroad of British merchants, and the bill was necessary; if for no other purpose, td limit production, and thus benefitthemasters. Mr. Hoole bad asserted5 that the factory people were a moral people. It was hardly prudent for Mr. Hoole, with the opportunities he had had of judging, to stand forward there and assert this. He (the speaker) maintained that with them morality was at a low ebb. There were, to be sure, some pleasing exceptions; but what he had stated was the general rule; and it was scarcely possible that it should be otherwise, as the men and women mixed so constantly together during their hours of labour, sometimes not even clothed as delicacy would suggest; Bethought Mr. Hoole ought to support Lord Ashley's hill ,■ and, approving of the restriction on the. moving power, he would respectfully suggest to Mr. Hoole to attempt, when in London oit the deputation, to introduce a clause into the bill to that effect. £t was a strange anomaly, that wit!* our increased powers of production, with our grana ries loaded with food, and our manufactories with clothing, so many thousands should be actually in want of necessary food andc!othing.—( Hear.)Charles Aberdeen,' the man whose name had been so frequently pronounced in the course of the evening, here presented himself to the meeting. He said he had been apprenticed to the spinning business in 1796, from an hospital in London. The last place he was at was the mill of Messrs. Lambert, Hoole, and Jackson. He was discharged hence by Mr. Lambert for refusing to sign a petition against Mr. Sadler’s Ten Hours’ Bill--Hear” and u Shame”)—and though he bad sometimes since known the want™ m 4 1n A___A___ r__
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London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Apr 11, 1833
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