HOURS.--The hours are from 8 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., with one hour for dinner, ten minutes for lunch, and twenty minutes for tea; on Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The girls have to be in by 8.15 or they are locked out for the morning. When at overtime they work from 8 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. PROSPECTS.--The forewoman was at the bench once. GENERAL.--"On the floor below," said my informant, "are litho girls--not the sort whom you _could_ speak to. That is a very bad trade." 26. _Printer's and Bookbinder's Firm in Leeds. Employer's Information._ I was shown over the factory. The rooms are all very large and lofty. Electric instead of steam power is used, and so the factory is far less noisy and cooler than most printing works. _One hundred and twenty girls_ of a very superior class are employed. The conditions under which work is carried on here are evidently very good. They print large advertisement posters, time-tables, magazines, novels, and make account books, cheque books, etc. TRAINING.--Girls begin by feeding ruling machines, packing, etc., and the length of their "apprenticeship" depends entirely upon the girls themselves. They are put on piece work as soon as they are fit for it; they are taken on about fourteen without premium, and their wages begin at 4_s._ 6_d._ or, sometimes, 5_s._, and rise by degrees till they are paid piece work rates. WAGES.--_Folding and Sewing_ (piece work).--The pay ranges about 10_s._, 12_s._, 16_s._, up to 25_s._ per week. _Laying-on of Gold-leaf and Blockers_ (piece work) yields 18_s._ to 20_s._ per week. Girls who put _paper covers_ on to cheap novels, etc., earn about 20_s._ _Layers-on_ (_Letter-press and Litho_) are paid time wages and receive 8_s._, 10_s._, and 12_s._ per week. The employer says he has known three sisters take home £4 a week for several months in succession. He thinks it pays well to give high wages. HOURS.--The hours are 52½ per week: from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with dinner from 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.; on Saturdays, 7.30 a.m. till 12.30 p.m.; but overtime is worked thirty days in the year. Piece workers receive no extra pay; time workers get time and a quarter. WORK.--_Folding_ is done chiefly by hand. There is one machine, but that is self-feeding and a man minds it. _Sewing_ is done by hand and by machinery. _Perforating_ is done by a machine worked by power, which has simply to be fed. Several girls were employed putting the wrappers on to 6_d._ novels, while others were pasting cloth on to cardboard for school exercise books. Little girls were feeding the ruling machine, punching labels, eyeletting and packing. Girls were also engaged in gold laying-on and blocking, but none were employed at this when I was there. In the litho and letter-press printing rooms a large number of very respectable girls, about eighteen years of age, were employed as layers-on. They were feeding large as well as small machines.