A friend has just sent me a note of a similar case, that of a cartridge filler, who received 1d. for filling 1000 cartridges. She said that she could fill 25,000 a day, when busy. “But,” adds my friend, “she is a physical wreck, having worked at this for ten years.” Footnote 8: Report of the Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 50. Footnote 9: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 99. Footnote 10: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 300. Footnote 11: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 302. Footnote 12: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 290. Footnote 13: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 34. Footnote 14: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 292. Footnote 15: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 293. Footnote 16: Report of Chief Inspector, 1905, p. 280. Footnote 17: The article from which this is an extract was published (in the _New Review_) in September 1891; but the practices described, are, I fear, not yet extinct, though the law is succeeding by degrees in making them risky. Footnote 18: “Life in the Shop.” A series of articles reprinted from the _Daily Chronicle_, pp. 5 and 6. Footnote 19: The National Union of Shop Assistants, Clerks, and Warehousemen, now growing very powerful, and guided by able, experienced and energetic officials, has of late done much towards inducing employers to abolish or diminish some of their fines. Footnote 20: A peculiarly shocking example of the abuses that may arise from a system of fining was lately brought to my knowledge. It is not recent, and must, I think and hope, be unique. I have found no witness who has ever heard of a similar instance. Of its truth, however, the source from which it comes forbids doubt. These are the facts. In a certain retail shop selling drapery and fancy goods the foreman, whose business it apparently was to collect fines, was required to make up a fixed sum of money from this source every week; and being a man with wife and children, afraid above all things of being left without employment, was accustomed to inflict sufficient fines to make up this total. Two girls, whose weekly wage of 11s. he had thus reduced, on one occasion, to 4s., took to evil courses; and the foreman when dying (in a hospital) told a lady visitor the circumstances, and said that he felt himself responsible for the downfall of the girls. The lady (an experienced worker in a girls’ club) made enquiries, which confirmed the startling tale. She followed up the girls, reclaimed one and put her into respectable employment, but failed with the other and was unable to keep sight of her. Footnote 21: