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But, bad as Fustian-cutting is, the trade of Lueiier-match-nmking is worse. It is about thirty years since the very great convenience of the Luciier-mateh was invented. It was one of the most cheap and ready improvements that science introduced. The old clumsy tinder-box, with its singed rag, and flint-and-stccl and its brimstonc-nmteh, was at once cast aside ; and all, from the lowest, to the highest rejoiced in the clean, cheap, easily-lighted Lucifer. But.* with every good there is some evil mingled—not of necessity, but bv carelessness and selfishness. Not to speak of the multitudes of fires anti accidents that carelessness has caused, and against which, in these pages, we have often lifted up a warning voice :—the employment, of children in Lueifor-mateh making is one of the deadliest, wrongs that; can he perpetrated on defenceless littlc-ones. We desire to testify that there are manufacturers who carry on their trade free from all the evils of cruel oppression to the young, but these are the exception.In this manufacture there are many employers in a small way, who have miserable sheds, or outhouses, as workshops, and with one or two men, and a few wretched children, pursue their trade.
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British Workman
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, May 01, 1864
Page 4
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