HOPE FOR WORKERS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 Srs,—Referring to your interesting article in a recent number on this subject, I was talking to a superior and intelligent factory worker to-day, who has himself worked in a factory for forty-five years, and he said the labour in mills had enor- mously improved for the better during the past forty years, and now that no labour was, in the true sense of the word, severe. He further said, his opinion was that the factory workers would not consider a transference of the work to their own homes an improvement, and if the option were given them, they would prefer to work in larger numbers in the factory, preferring the life imparted to work where large numbers were employed. As showing that factory work is not generally distasteful to young girls, may be instanced the fact that in manufacturing districts the difficulty in obtaining
domestic servants is much greater than is generally the case in other districts.—I am, Sir, &c., J. H. BRANSFIELD. The Elms, Hucklerafiekl, July 10th.
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