ABSTRACT
Miss Collet obtained the evidence of 125 persons in Birmingham, forty-eight of whom were employers; the rest were workwomen. Those workers who were interviewed in the factories or workshops are not, Miss Collet states, included in this list. The pen manufacturers, generally speaking, objected to allow their premises to be seen. Messrs. Gillott alone permitted their factory to be visited, but it was impossible to obtain a table of wages; as pen making is considered to be the largest manufacture in Birmingham, this was unfortunate. We must, I am afraid, draw very unfavourable deductions from these circumstances.
