NOTTINGHAM: Women Lace Makers’ Union. Secretary, H. Bartellot, Great Freeman Street. 370. OXFORD: Protective and Provident Society of Women working in Trades. Secretary, Miss Farrant, 13, The Crescent. 80. *SCOTTISH MILL AND FACTORY WORKERS FEDERAL UNION. Secretary, A. Whyte, Templars’ Hall, Kirriemuir. 2,500. STAFFORDSHIRE: Hanley. Women’s Pottery Union. Secretary, James Bentley, Mission Hall Buildings, High Street, Hanley. STAFFORDSHIRE: Burslem. Women’s Pottery Union. Secretary, Mrs. Platt, 38, Brindley Street. 200. SUNDERLAND: Paper Mill Workers Union. Secretary, R. Dale, 5, Albany Terrace, Commercial Road. SHOP ASSISTANTS’ UNION, NATIONAL. W. Johnson, General Secretary, 55, Chancery Lane, E.C. (30 branches.) 300. *WEAVERS, NORTHERN COUNTIES AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OF. General Secretary, W. H. Wilkinson. Head Office, Endbank Chambers, Accrington. (29 branches.) 43,000. *WEAVERS, WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE POWER LOOM ASSOCIATION OF. Secretary, Allen Gee. Head Office, Friendly and Trades Societies Club, Huddersfield. (20 branches.) 2,000. *WEAVERS, UNION OF. Secretary, Edwin Hill, 55, Park Street, Trowbridge. *WEAVERS. Yeadon, Guiseley, and District. H. Lockwood, North Terrace, Yeadon. 276. WHITWORTH VALE BRANCH OF N.C.A.W. Secretary, Ralph Earlwood, Market Street, Shawforth. CHAPTER IV. _THE TEXTILE TRADES._ CENTRES OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY: Lancashire and Yorkshire--Changes in general conditions--Reforms not final--EXTENT OF COMBINATION: Mixed Unions--Equal wages paid to weavers in the cotton trade--Contrast between Lancashire and Yorkshire--Lower scale for women in Yorkshire--Fines--SUPERVISION: Immorality--SYSTEM OF FINES: Deductions from wages--SANITATION: Defective arrangements--High temperature in cotton mills--Dangerous machinery--LABOUR OF MARRIED WOMEN: Child labour--Reforms needed--OTHER TEXTILE TRADES: Crape--Silk--Ribbons--Carpets--Hosiery--Lace--Linen--Unhealthy Conditions--Wages. =Centres of Textile Industry.=--By far the largest demand for women’s labour, next to household service, comes from the textile industry; and it is in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, where the cotton and woollen trades are carried on, that women’s labour under the Factory system can best be studied. There are several departments of the textile trades, such as the silk industry, crape manufacturing, and carpet making, in which women are also largely employed; but it is in the great cotton mills of Rochdale, Oldham, Burnley, and Blackburn, the woollen mills of Huddersfield and Dewsbury, and the worsted mills of Bradford, that the great majority of women are to be found.