Reforms for Labor Conditions

It's about time we, as the government of the people, and you, as the people, finally step up once again into action to support our struggle for financial success for all, which would be the better economy for Great Britain. For a long time the government as a whole supported trade and business for the people, and you the people have enhanced our economy with your competitive nature within this changing society. We have created roads and canals for transportation of goods and raw materials, we have developed our navy to dominate overseas and bring in more valuables, and we have supported private business. But we have not fully supported the people, and how are we forgetting the driving force of this revolution? The working people, struggling to survive, working for our benefit, have not benefited from this so called improvement to our society. Work is to be expected from us to improve, but we cannot have women and children bent down under machines, working like slaves, treated like slaves, can we? Important men of society, remember this is not just a step up to competition for profit- this is an enlightened society. Years of history has clouded our minds, but if you look up at your ancesters and look down at the weak and the poor:

"I have seen my master, Luke Taylor, with a horse whip standing outside the mill when the children have come too late.........he lashed them all the way to the mill." John Fairbrother, an overlooker, interviewed in 1819.

"Sarah Golding was poorly and so she stopped her machine. James Birch, the overlooker, knocked her to the floor. She got up as well as she could. He knocked her down again. Then she was carried to her house.......she was found dead in her bed. There was another girl called Mary......she knocked her food can to the floor. The master, Mr. Newton, kicked her and caused her to wear away till she died. There was another, Caroline Thompson, who was beaten till she went out of her mind. The overlookers used to cut off the hair of any girl caught talking to a lad. This head shaving was a dreadful punishment. We were more afraid of it than any other punishment for girls are proud of their hair." An interview in 1849 with an unknown woman who worked in a cotton factory as a child. 

What we are, are brutal savages with technology to fascilitate this competition. We help these people, then we will help society. We help the workers, then we will get more quality products. We help improve the lives, and our only path would be forward. Shorter work hours mean lower wages but more employment for more people. The less fatigue the people have, the high the quality, and so selling price. The fact that more people get employed would mean more can buy, and so the quality raise will also come with a justified price. It should be expected of all decent human beings to not torture any employees, as they are not slaves. When everyone's standards of life improve, so will yours.