There have been rumours that the Government will not be
able to find room for the Factories Bill and the Poor Law Bill in their programme for the approaching session. If these Bills are not brought in this session they are not lively to be brought in at all. We can hardly believe that the Home Secretary will consent without a hard struggle to the disappearance of the Factories Bill or that Mr. Neville Chamberlain will easily consent to lose the results of his long investigations into Poor Law reform. Both these Bills have been promised, but if there is really not room for more than one it would be desirable that the chJice should fall upon the Factories Bill. This is long overdue as a mere consolidating measure ; and it is well known that the latest knowledge in sanitary methods and more suitable conditions for young workers need to be applied. * *
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