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Cement works . 

 Glass do. . 



Paper do. ... 

 Printing do. 

 Sugar do. 



Chocolate and sweet do. . 

 Fish-net do. . 



14 (working alternately from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 



2 to 10 P.M.) 

 14 night and day alternate]}'. 

 40 some hours every night. 

 25 alternately day and night for two or three months in 



winter. 

 11 from 8 to 10 P.M. during two months in winter. 

 21 alternately 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., and 3 p.m. to 12 midnight. 



Where the inspectors find that accidents, which are generally of a 

 slight nature, have been caused by the employment of women to clean 

 machinery in motion, they cause extracts from the law with regard to 

 this particular to be hung up in the work-rooms where women are employed 

 to tend machinery.' 



The above information is derived from the Report of the Factory 

 Inspectors for 1900-1901. Tabular statements of the number of esta- 

 blishments employing children, young persons, and mechanical power are 

 contained in the officig,l publication entitled ' Statistiske Oplysninger om 

 Kpbenhavn og Frederiksberg.' These returns, however, are only brought 

 up to 1895, and the locality is circumscribed, whereas the Reports of the 

 Factory Inspectors cover the whole country. It has therefore been 

 thought unnecessary to extract the figures in detail, but the following 

 table shows the same tendency to a decrease in the employment of chil- 

 dren and young persons, as is noted by the inspectors : — 



Percentage of Children and Young Persons in Factories under Inspection in 

 Copenhagen and Frederiksberg. 



Wages. — The official returns with regard to wages do not distinguish 

 between the earnings of women employed in factory and non-factory in- 

 dustries ; the annual earnings are 500 kr. as compared with 440 kr. in 1892. 

 This rise had almost always been accompanied by a decrease in the hours 

 of labour, and it was found that Sunday rest, first enforced by the law of 

 April 1, 1891, was generally observed. 



Mr. Marcus Rubin and Mr. Cordt Trap, who edited the statistics for 

 the two periods, in their suggestions as to the causes of this rise of wages 

 and decrease of hours, do not directly mention legislation, though Mr. 

 Rubin refers to the increase of factory industry. They are rather inclined 

 to lay stress on the general rise in the standard of life, and above all on 

 trade organisation.^ 



' ForskelUge Meddelelser. Beretninr/ til Justitsviinisteriet og Indenrigsministeriet 

 om FabriMihijnfits Virlisomhed i Finansaaret 1900-1901. 



2 Banmarks Haandvaerk og Industrie femte Eaekke. Litra A. Nr. 1, 1899. 

 ArlejdsJonnen i Kahenhafn i Aaret 1892. Marcus Rubin. Arlejdslonnen i Kahen- 

 liavn i Aaret 1898. Cordt Trap. The Committee are indebted to Mr, Steflensea for 

 copies of these works and other valuable information. 



