People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — To Discuss Protection. [ARTICLE]

To Discuss Protection.

London, Dec. 11. —The home secretary has appointed a committee to inquire into the conditions injurious to health or dangerous to the life and limb of workers in a large variety of industries. Among the trades to be investigated is that of sole-stitching by American machinery. The committee includes H. J. Tenant, a member of parliament; Dr. Oliver, a prominent physician, and Miss Nannie Abrahams, a government inspector of factories. The committee is holding its sessions in secret.