The case of the journeymen bakers : being a lecture on the 'evils of nightwork and long hours of labour,' delivered July 6, 1848 / by William A. Guy.

  • Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The case of the journeymen bakers : being a lecture on the 'evils of nightwork and long hours of labour,' delivered July 6, 1848 / by William A. Guy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ao AVoe to that nation, which, given over to tlie worsliip of Mamtnoii, (lares to prefer the interests of trade and commer(;e to the welfare, physical and moral, of its toiling masses ! Woe to that nation, which, while it scrupulously portects every form of material property, refuses to guard that only property of the working man—his health —from the assaults of the careless and avaricious! But happy indeed the people who shall first contrive to reconcile the require- ments of humanity and justice with the true theory of trade and commerce! I, for one, firmly believe, that because this nation has not altogether failed in bringing about that union, it stands secure amid the wrecks that strew the Continent. I firmly believe that our protection of health and life, and our consideration for the comfort and happiness of the working classes; our factory bills, and our mines and colliery legislation; our Coal-whippers’ Act, our Sunday Baking BiU, our recent sanitary measure, our model lodging-houses, our baths and wash-houses, our ragged schools, and, in a word, all those efforts of a wise philanthropy, with which the noble Lord in the chair has for ever associated his name, are the true glory of our nation, and the best safeguard of our institutions. LONDON : PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE