A prominent employer writes to me in December 1906 that wages have since risen 2½ per cent. Footnote 78: A Reply to the Report of the Tariff Commission on the Cotton Trade. Written for the Free Trade League by S. J. Chapman, M.A., Professor of Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Footnote 79: Since writing these lines I have been informed that improved machinery and management have been introduced, and that the outlook has consequently improved also. But it is safe to prophesy that unless her wages should rise very substantially, the Bristol worker will not reach the standard of the Lancashire worker. Footnote 80: Economy of High Wages, p. 66. Footnote 81: Economy of High Wages, p. 398. Footnote 82: W. Pember Reeves. State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand. Vol. ii. p. 29. To this volume I am indebted for the account of all the facts preceding and accompanying the enactment of the earliest laws under which a minimum wage could be legally fixed in the colonies. Any reader desiring fuller details of these most interesting developments should refer to Mr Reeves’s second volume. Footnote 83: It seems from the context that 1s. 6d. was the price paid for making the dozen shirts throughout, and that the finisher’s share was but a part of this, since a night’s work, in which she did a dozen shirts and something more, only brought her one shilling. Footnote 84: W. Pember Reeves. State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand. Vol. ii. pp. 111–112. Footnote 85: Journal of the Department of Labour. New Zealand. Vol. XI. pp. 267–268. Footnote 86: Journal of the Department of Labour. New Zealand. Vol. XIV. pp. 70–76. Footnote 87: This account of the establishment of the first Wage Boards is derived from Mr Reeves’s State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, vol. ii. chap. 1. Footnote 88: A resolution of both Houses is now required. Footnote 89: Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories, work-rooms and shops. Victoria, 1905, p. 62. Footnote 90: Report of Chief Inspector of Factories. Victoria, p. 68. Footnote 91: Report of Chief Inspector of Factories. Victoria, 1905, p. 43. Footnote 92: Report of Chief Inspector of Factories. Victoria, 1905, p. 19. Footnote 93: _Ibid._, p. 63. Footnote 94: Report of Chief Inspector of Factories. Victoria, p. 58. Footnote 95: Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories. Victoria, 1905, p. 60. Footnote 96: _Ibid._, p. 14. Footnote 97: Report of Chief Inspector of Factories. Victoria, 1905, p. 39. Footnote 98: See the speech of Mr Maxwell (to whom personally, it may be added, this excellent state of things is due) on p. 38 of the National Anti-Sweating League’s Report of a Conference on the Minimum Wage. Footnote 99: