"In making this petition, however, we give other important reopens than the one mentioned hereinbefore, and these are:—
"(1) Night work is pernicious to abe workers' health; (2) Night} work, as now enforced, is not fair the scale of wages and the manner of living of the workers is taken into consideration; (3) Night} work affects the social and moral life of the worker; (4) Night work necessitates boarding houses where 1s, maidens, are cruelly wronged; (5) Night' work isa breach of international fidelity; (6)
work, in the long run, is disadvantageous to the nation's industries, "According to investigations made by the Government at a cer tain spinning factory where: 81 women were employed, the average weight of the worker decreased by 170 momme (about one-and-a-half pounds) per week, on account of night work, whereas when they were subsequently employed on day shifts the weight increased by only 69 momme, the women los ing about 100 momme permanently. In other words, they covered.
"Women and juvenile workers on ight shifts are prone to tuberculosis, indigestion and sterility. According to investigations made
every 1,000. "women employed by PH, qdghitara, "23° out of hight. sluts are" dying every year. "In other "Words, out a grand total of 857,000 women workers, employed in factory Iabour, 19,550 are dying annually, He further declared that out of ey 100 such women workers, 1 suffer from sterility.
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