The plea that women were worked longer than the prescribed hours in a factory during the week preceding Coronation Day because otherwise the festivities for thousands of people would have been ruined was put forward by a firm at Hull.
Fines totalling £102 were imposed on William' Jackson and Sons Lid. grocers and confectioners, for breaches of the Factory Act. There were 60 summonses, thirteen being for work on Sunday.
It was stated for the firm that because Coronation Day was so near Whitsun it experienced the busiest time it had known for 86 years, Output was increased by 60 per cent.
Employees, actuated by patriotic feelings, decided that they would work on the Sunday and work overtime on other days, and then go to London for the Coronation.
The stipendiary magistrate. Mr. J. R. MacDonald, said that he was sympathetic, but the firm was bound by Act of Parliament,
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