ABSTRACT
Miss Anderson, who visited Yorkshire and Lancashire, complains of the employment of milliners and mantle makers as shop-women or show-room assistants at the conclusion of their day's work in the work-room -a great abuse, unless extra payment is made. Also of the terrible lack of sanitary accommodation. She further complains of the difficulty of obtaining evidence from workers concerning illegal overtime, and of the complexity of the abstract of the law. She mentions that dressmakers' apprentices of 13 and 14 years of age suffer cruelly from want of exerCise, as they appear to be kept at work as long as the older girls.
