MORALITY IN FACTORIES,

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1363, 14 February 1912, Page 5

MORALITY IN FACTORIES,

SEPARATION OF SEXES URGED,

ll Telecrapii-Pivvs AsFoclatlno-Copyrlsht (Rec. February U, 0.20 a.m.) • Sydney, February 13. The Royal Commission on tho shortage >f labour, in its reports on factory life, deals unfavourably with the morality of factory workers, and recommends that the two sexes should work in separate rooms; also that female workers should leavo a quarter of an hour before the male workers. The immorality, however, is not such as to compel a general condemnation, employers mostly finding it to their own advantage to cull out tho undesirables.

That great caro should bo taken when petrol is used for cleaning purposes (says The Autocar") was evidenced by an accident which occurred recently at Tiverton. A garage workman at tho close of the day put his greasy overalls into a bucket and poured over them a small quantity of petrol for the purpose of cleaning them, and took fheni jiomc. Here he poured upon them some boiling water, and tho petrol fumes dispersing with the, steam, became ignited by a candle which was standing in a window near by, although tho candle was inside, while the operation was being performed outside tho house. Tho man was severely 'burned, and would no doubt have lost his life but for tho presence of mind shown by bis younger brother, a boy of thirteen, who extinguished the flames by smothering them with his own coat.