THE FACTORY ACT.

Evening Star, Issue 3328, 20 October 1873, Page 3

THE FACTORY ACT.

To Mr J. B. Bradshaw , per favor of the Evemno Star ih, —There are a large number of young ladiea who very sincerely thank you for your successful efforts on their behalf, in reference to a Bill passed—elevating them to the level of the ‘ • working man. ” '} hese young people have for a long time failed to understand why they shou’d be shut up in close rooms, inhaling a most unhealthy atmosphere, combined with gas, until ten, eleven, and some times twelve ©clock of a Saturday night, t > enable the “ fuss and feather frat rnity ” to decorate the pews of our different churches on the Sunday. Places of worship at one time called—now houses of fashion. But sir, you have overlooked the young ladies termed saleswomen (not millinery sewingmachine girls, as designated by a recent writer in a daily paper, who, probably from being too full of breweries and the process of cleaning his teeth, thinks that a bonnet is made with a little card-board a glue po*, and a sewing-machine). Now, it app-ara to hr pretty generally known that drapers keep open for the sole purpose of pitroeiring the Gas Company ; f*r business there is none of a Saturday afternoon, and the evening trade comprises, as a rule, a piece of tape, a hair net, and a box of pins. Would you, sir, k ndly use your powerful aid on beba'f of these female employes, who for so many hours are on their feet of a Saturday night with very little to do ? Law is the only remedy—argument seems to be of no use—otherwise the eloquent a' peals made by bo many gentlemen would have had a more beneficial result. Apologising fur thus addressing you, I am, &c., Consumption. Dunedin, October 20.