These cases are taken from the reports of an investigator employed some years ago by the Women’s Industrial Council. This lady, who was an experienced assistant, spent over two years in passing from shop to shop, remaining long enough in each to obtain complete information as to wages, conditions, food, rules, etc. Footnote 22: _Daily News_, 25th August, 1906. Letter signed “Onesimus.” Footnote 23: Women’s Work and Wages, p. 47, note. Footnote 24: Edited by J. Ramsay MacDonald. P. S. King & Son. Footnote 25: Women’s Employment in Shops. Report of an enquiry conducted for the National Federal Council of Scotland for Women’s Trades; by Margaret Irwin, p. 7. Footnote 26: Women Shop Assistants. The evidence given by Miss Irwin before the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Early Closing of Shops, p. 5. Footnote 27: Women’s Employment in Shops, p. 6. Footnote 28: Report of Select Committee on the Cabs and Omnibuses (Metropolis) Bill, 1906, p. 5, par. 31. Footnote 29: As these terms may possibly be unfamiliar to some readers, it may be as well to explain that, on a time and a half rate, every penny of the ordinary wage becomes a penny-halfpenny; and that, on a time and a quarter rate, every such penny becomes a penny-farthing. Footnote 30: Report of Select Committee on the Cabs and Omnibuses (Metropolis) Bill, 1906, p. 4, par. 19. Footnote 31: Report of Select Committee on the Cabs and Omnibuses (Metropolis) Bill, 1906, p. 4, par. 19. Footnote 32: Juvenile wage earners and their work. By Nettie Adler, hon. Sec. Committee on Wage-Earning children. Progress, July 1906. Footnote 33: Report for 1905, p. 52. Footnote 34: Report for 1905, p. 52. Footnote 35: A “young person” means, according to the Factory Acts, one under 18. Footnote 36: Report for 1905, p. 296. Footnote 37: The Case for the Factory Acts. Edited by Mrs Sidney Webb. Chapter II. The Historical Development of the Factory Acts. By Miss B. L. Hutchins, pp. 80–81. Footnote 38: Case for the Factory Acts, pp. 82–3. Footnote 39: Bye-laws under the Employment of Children Act have now been passed in many towns, and the London County Council has at last been permitted by the Home Office to establish a fairly satisfactory code. Really satisfactory no code can be which sanctions any employment of children during school years, but in this department, as in others, the interposition of the law has done something to check glaring industrial evils. Footnote 40: _Child Labor._ A menace to industry, education and good citizenship (No. 93 of the Annals of the American Academy of political and social science. March 1906.) p. 318. Footnote 41: _Child Labor_, p. 293. Footnote 42: Some ethical gains through legislation. By Florence Kelley, p. 44. Footnote 43: _Ibid._, p. 45. Footnote 44: _Ibid._, p. 49. Footnote 45: