FINING GIRLS CAUSES SUICIDES
PATHETIC TALE OF DEAD FACTORY WORKERS Pathetic tales were told at the United Textile Factory Workers’ Association’s Conference at Blackpool, England, about the practice of fines for faulty work in weaving sheds. Mr. James Bell said women felt their position much more keenly than men, and suicide because of what was said to them in warehouse and because of fines was far too common. Mr. J. J. Tout said the tragedy was not confined to the two recent suicides at Preston and Blackburn. In hundreds of Lancashire homes the hearts of young people and women were broken by a pursuance of the practice of fining. Industrial action would have to be taken.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 15
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