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Extension of the Factory acts.—The Government Bill founded upon the report of the Children’s Employment Commission, proposes to enact that the Factory Acts shall apply to the manufacture of earthenware, xcepfc bricks and tiles, not being- ornamental tiles ; the manufacture of Jucifer matches, of percussion caps, of cartridges; the employment of paper-ataining, of fustian-cutting-, and of finishing, hooking, lapping, making up or packing yarn or cloth of cotton, wool, aiik or flax, or ^ any otuer materials in shipping warehouses or finishers works, or those of makers-ap and packers. All such factories are to bo kept in a cleanly state, and so ventilated as to render harmless, so far os is practicable, any gases, dirt, or other impurities generated in the process of manufacture that may be injurious to health. Special rules to be sanctioned by the Secretary of State, may be made by the manufacturer for compelling, under penalties, the observance by the workmen of the conditions necessary to insure the required cleanliness and ventilation. For the first six months after the pas-ting of the bill, children of not less than eleven years, ana for the first thirty months children of not less than twelve, may bo employed as young persons exceeding thirteen may under the existing Factory Acts. For the first eighteen months the Jaw against young persons and women remaining during mealtimes in a room where a manufacturing process is carried on, and the law that young persons in a factory shall have the timo for meals at the same period of the day, is not to apply to paper-staming or the earthenware manufacture. In a lucifer match factory the meals of young persons or women are not to be takeu where any manufacturing process, except that^ of cutting tbe wood, is carried on. In fustian-cutting no child under eleven is to be employed, or as the Bill phrases it, “ until the attainment of the age of eleven years.
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London Miner and Workman Advocate
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Apr 16, 1864
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