Facts and Figures, Issue 1Henry Hooper, 13, Pall Mall East, 1841 |
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Page 140 - I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my hands and feet. The road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope; and, when there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys and girls in the pit I work in: it is very hard work for a woman.
Page 86 - For every quarter, a duty equal in amount to the duty payable on a quarter of Barley.
Page 142 - That in some districts they remain in solitude and darkness during the whole time they are in the pit, and, according to their own account, many of them never see the light of day for weeks together during the greater part of the winter season, excepting on those days in the week when work is not going on, and on the Sundays.
Page 106 - JANUARY, 1852, (AFTER ABATING THE EXPENDITURE THEREOUT DEFRAYED BY THE SEVERAL REVENUE DEPARTMENTS,) AND OF THE ACTUAL ISSUES OR PAYMENTS WITHIN THE SAME PERIOD, EXCLUSIVE OF THE SUMS APPLIED TO THE REDEMPTION OF FUNDED OR PAYINO OFF UNFUNDED DEBT, AND OF THE ADVANCES AND REPAYMENTS FOR LOCAL WORKS, ETC.
Page 142 - That at different ages, from six years old and upwards, the hard work of pushing and dragging the carriages of coal from the workings to the main ways, or to the foot of the shaft, begins ; a labour which all classes of witnesses concur in stating requires the unremitting exertion of all the physical power which the young workers possess.
Page 175 - Small Coal, that is to say, Coals which shall have been screened through a riddle or screen, the bars of which are not in any part thereof more than five-eighth parts of an inch asunder, and Culm, the ton . . 010 Clay and China Stone, the cwt.
Page 142 - That, in the East of Scotland, a much larger proportion of Children and Young Persons are employed in these mines than in other districts, many of whom are girls; and that the chief part of their labour consists in carrying the coals on their backs up steep ladders.
Page 142 - trapping', requires that they should be in the pit as soon as the work of the day commences, and, according to the present system, that they should not leave the pit before the work of the day is at an end. 8. That although this employment scarcely deserves the name of labour, yet, as the Children engaged in it are commonly excluded from light and are always without companions, it would, were it not for the passing and repassing of the coal carriages, amount to solitary confinement of the worst order....
Page 139 - I go up; sometimes they bsat me, if I am not quick enough, with their hands; they strike me upon my back; the boys take liberties with me, sometimes they pull me about; I am the only girl in the pit; there are about 20 boys and 15 men; all the men are naked; I would rather work in a mill than in a coal-pit.
Page 140 - It is almost incredible that human beings can submit to such employment, crawling on hands and knees, harnessed like horses, over soft slushy floors more difficult than dragging the same weights through our lowest common sewers, and more difficult in consequence of the inclination, which is frcqnentlv one in three to one in six."] (Ibid.