ABSTRACT
It is surprising to read the references frequently made to the ignontnce which still prevails, both amongst employers and employed,in regard to the Factory Acts. The State has provided an elaborate system for the protection of the industrial population. That system has by no means accomplished all that it was expected to accomplish, the officials appointed to see that it is properly carried out show that numbers are in a state of Ignorance as to the legal conditions under which their work is carried on. But instea;d of devising means for making the existing Acts more thoroughly known and tried, Parliament adds to the difficulty by a third Act full of new complications.
