ABSTRACT
Before the passing of the last Factory Amendment' Act there was much agitation in order to secure legislative interference with women whose work was in laundries. It was pointed out that a good deal of this agitation was aroused by manufacturers of laundry machinery, through their newspapers and (so-call:ed) public meetings, and fear was expressed that the result of rules and restrictions apparently intended for the good of women might be that much of their work would be transferred to men and machinery. This idea was ridiculed and ascribed to mere prejudice by those who, for one reason or another, wished for thi~ legislation. The Act came into force last January; in August we read, in the accounts of the Exhibition of Laundry Machinery at the Agricultural Hall, that the number of exhibits has grown frqm 60 to 300.
