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THE FACTORY RILL.On Monday night a meeting of factory operations was held in the Cora Exchange, Manchester, for the purpose of protesting against the proposed amendments which have been announced by Sir G. Grey as to be proposed on the bill of LordAshley. The chair was occupied by Mr. Lawrence Pitkeithlcy, a manufacturer, who, after reading the placard by which the meeting had been convened, called upon Mr, Miuvdsley, the secretary, to read the first resolution, which he did as follows:— “That after two years’ experience of the operatives of the ‘Ten Hours Act/ we. the factory operatives of Manchester, in public meeting assembled, feel ourselves bound from sad necessity once more to declare our unqualified approbationof ihat just and righteous law, and also our determination never to consent to any proposition, emanating from whatever quarter it may, involving in the slightest degree a departure from the principle of ten hours for five days in the week, and eight on the Saturdays, for all females and young persons employed in mills and factories, and that we will
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London Weekly Tribune
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, May 11, 1850
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