The London Tailors' Executive Committee have determined to work the
Act passed last Session to regulate the labour of women and children in this and other trades. Under the Act it is for- bidden to employ any child under eight in a handicraft, or any child for more than six and a half hours, or any woman or young person for more than twelve hours, with an interval of one and a ball hours for meals and rest. The Factory Act is, moreover, extended to all slop shops employing more than fifty persons, and the working tailors believe that these Acts will revolutionize the -conditions of the trade. They therefore have instructed the Executive to appoint a Vigilance Committee of persons not tailors in order to prosecute every breach of these Acts, which, if fully -carried out, will so reduce the hours of labour as to be equivalent to a reduction of one-fifth in the number of women engaged in the London trade.
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