[{134b}] “History of the Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain,” by E. Baines, Esq.
[{135}] “Stubborn Facts from the Factories by a Manchester Operative.” Published and dedicated to the working-classes, by Wm. Rashleigh, M.P., London, Ollivier, 1844, p. 28, et seq.
[{136}] Compare Factories’ Inquiry Commission’s Report.
[{138}] L. Symonds, in “Arts and Artisans.”
[{140}] See Dr. Ure in the “Philosophy of Manufacture.”
[{141}] Report of Factory Inspector, L. Homer, October, 1844: “The state of things in the matter of wages is greatly perverted in certain branches of cotton manufacture in Lancashire; there are hundreds of young men, between twenty and thirty, employed as piecers and otherwise, who do not get more than 8 or 9 shillings a week, while children under thirteen years, working under the same roof, earn 5 shillings, and young girls, from sixteen to twenty years, 10-12 shillings per week.”
[{143a}] Report of Factories’ Inquiry Commission. Testimony of Dr. Hawkins, p. 3.
[{143b}] In 1843, among the accidents brought to the Infirmary in Manchester, one hundred and eighty-nine were from burning.
[{144}] Factories’ Inquiry Commission’s Report, Power’s Report on Leeds: passim Tufnell Report on Manchester, p. 17. etc.
[{145}] This letter is re-translated from the German, no attempt being made to re-produce either the spelling or the original Yorkshire dialect.