UNDERGROUND LONDON

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 4

UNDERGROUND LONDON

-—^-——_ NEVER PUHIFIED BY SCNLIOIIT, : There is no moie remarkable feature about the indusAfy of 'London, the' greatest maiiufact-urmf; oity in tlio. world, than the extent to wliie.fi it is : hidejen away front thoso Who do not' oartteipate directly in. its activities, fheIjomlofl of "SlSciety," of tlio City man, of fSe Goveriiinoiiti orTJTOs, and of Parliament gfi&i on its daily found of dirties ■and pleasittes wltl-wit ally ditect vision of that other . London of faetory aMfl; workshop labotir, which aofeiAlly pr-aJ , duces clothes, boots, furniture, food, mid printed matter to be merchahtcfi'; and sold and Consumed, irot only by I.ondonors, but by the inhabitants of almost matf -quarter of tho globe, j Most symbolical of all is tho fact tliat no small tttkintity, of the worlt Of Lon, , don i-s -coHdhcted literally te!o» tlio f'pet J i of thosfi who crowd' the streets of tho West End and tha City. The ever> rising routs of tlio business quarters liavo caused ise oceiipiers of all kinds of premises to tufn their unflersroiwd basonioiitSj and even their cellars, into workrooms for tmlorsi' Inhiidry workers, wi-gi-nakors, cmbroiderors, npTiolst'erers, j-ewcliers, and other hahdfcriifts'nien! the process ha:s been oxtehdad to oec-u r : patioss- which aro outsicW ■ tho scope of Our antiquated Factory .Acts. Typists diitl clerks, cooks and other kitchen l-.aiids often spsncl their wbote working hours in an at-tnosnisero which is .never sweetened if the breezes of heaven of purifisd by ' sii-iilight.—"Stoteritai!." - - ." ■■'■.■-*