Show factory ure lre in england we have from england a plesiant account of factory life which it is refreshing to read in this age of strikes turnouts and mutual misunderstandings mr john smedley loy ios the owner of the lee mills milis matlock has published a letter which describes tb the e life in nig nis factory it employs about 1000 hands in spinning and manufacturing merino hosiery the business is an old one dating from a period long before the commencement of this century during this time the business has continued conti aued in the smedley family and there has never been any tr trouble troubie whatever with the operatives work begins in this mill at six at 8 bell rings for breakfast which is furnished on the premises at a moderate cost after breakfast the manager takes his stand at a desk gives out a hymn reads in the bible or some other work of general interest a short prayer follows and at 9 the hands bands go back to their work refreshed and alert on five days of the week the operatives work ten hours on saturday tho the mill is closed at 12 the working hours amount in a week to eor por christmas day and good friday wages are paid in full hospitals for the sick are provided and care is taken that as regards the matter of wages an operative when he is taken ill III is ig not esst cast aside as if no bond had ever existed between him and his employers there has never been a strike since the leys owned the mill they ghey are rarely rely tempted to leave there is no drunks drunk enness the bands are smart and effective mr smedley wisely says in his letter 1 1 I believe the present disagreement between employers and employed is the long neglect act of consideration fer for the workers and the want of sympathy and personal knowledge of the want of sympathy with them these are golden words which all employers would find it pleasant and profitable to consider and to act upon westall we shail shall haye hate no peace until some soma method is devised of abating the intense and milting antagonism of capital and labor ex |