Between 1886 and 1889 the public became very much excited over the horrors o f the ‘Sweating System.’ The revelations o f hideous suffering, overwork and want brought home for a brief space to the minds o f the middle and upper classes ‘how the poor live.’ Gradually the excitement died away: new topics absorbed the interest o f the public; and o f Sweating and the Sweating System we heard little. In 1906, however, the Daily News, following the example o f a philanthropic society at Berlin, arranged an exhibition o f sweated industries. Workers were shewn, in a London hall, actually manufacturing match-boxes, blouses, etc., or carding hooks and eyes, and so forth; and though for obvious reasons neither the long hours o f work nor the insanitary conditions which too generally characterize similar employments, could be permitted or represented in an exhibition, full explanatory details o f rates of pay, cost of materials, etc., were given to visitors, and each day there was a lecture by some person qualified to describe and illustrate not only the seen but the unseen side of sweating. The show attracted a vast deal o f attention. Pity and sympathy were freely expressed; but along with the pity was mingled a note o f sheer bewilderment, and almost daily, when question-time followed the lecture, came the cry, ‘What can be done? what can we ourselves to, to stop it?’ The present Tract is an attempt, not to revive the useless public excitement, but to set plainly before the workers themselves - and especially before the organized Trade Unionists, who can do most to bring about a reform - the actual facts as to Sweating, and the way in which it can be abolished.