Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson on boy labour together with a memorandum from the General Post Office on the conditions of employment of telegraph messengers.

  • Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
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1909
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Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson on boy labour together with a memorandum from the General Post Office on the conditions of employment of telegraph messengers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX TO KEPOBT ON BOY TABLE VII. Occupations to which boys have gone who left the Pendleton Higher Elementary School during the past twelve months. Occupation. No. Office boy 14 Junior clerk - - - - - - 7 Railway clerk ------ 4 Mechanic 4 Grocer - - 3 Warehouse apprentice - - - - 2 Engineer 2 Office—Town Hall ----- 2 Tailor apprentice ----- 1 Barber - - - - - - - 1 Architect - - 1 Draughtsman ------ 1 Music 1 Silversmith (sales) ----- 1 Dyer - 1 Painter - - - - - - - 1 Van boy - - - -- - - l Accountant, to be articled - - - 1 Telegraph messenger - - - . l 49 TABLE VIII. Occupations to which boys have gone who left the Tootal Road School during the past twelve months. Occupation. No. Trades (including painters, engineers, plumbers, joiners, printers, etc.) - - 19 Offices - 18 Shops - - - - , - - 11 48 , TABLE IX. Occupations to which boys have gone who left the Christ Church School, Hulme Street, during the past twelve months. Occupation. No. Clerk - - 12 Errand boy 5 Draughtsman - - . - - - 2 Joiner - - - - - - - 2 Butcher 2 Implement maker 1 Mechanic -1 Tinplate worker - - - - . 1 Chemist x Greengrocer ------ i Shop assistant ----- . i Barman - -- -- - 30 Table IV. is a general table and gives particulars of the occupations followed by all the boys who were granted oertificatesi of exemption under the attend- ance qualification in the Bye-laws during the twelve months ending the 31st May, 1907. 82 per cent, of these boys were not more than 13^ years of age when they claimed the exemption certificate. In dealing with this table, it should be understood that I hav^ no alDsolute information as to the boys continuing in the occupations to which they have gone. In every case, howevei-, a certificate is obtained from the em- ployer that he intends to employ the boy, and our officers see that the occupation is followed until the 429. LABOUR BY MR: CYRIL JACKSON. 211 [iol] boy attains the agu of 14 years. This table takes no accouut of the boys who leave school after attaining the age of 14 years. Table V. gives particulars in regard to the boys who left the Grecian Street Higher Elementary School during the past 12 months, and very few, if any, of them \^ ill be included in Table I. Table VI. gives a statement of particulars which were supplied in December last in respect of the Grecian Street School, and covers a longer period than Table II. It does not include any of the boys in Table 11. Table VII. gives particulars of boys who left Pendle- ton Higher Elexnentary School during; the past 12 months. This table corresponds to Table II. of the Grecian Street School. Tables VIII. and IX. give particulars of Ijoys who have left the Tootal Road and Christ Church, Hulme Street, Schools, both of which may be descrilied as elementary schools of the better class type. Some of the boys in these cases will be included in Table I. TABLE X. Report of the British Army, 1907. Cd. 3oi35 Page 69.—Trades of men offering for enlistment:— Inspections. Rejections. (a) Unskilled labour - 30,718 10,106 {b) Skilled labour 1.5,110 4,897 (c) Occupations classified sepa- rately. (d) Professional occupations, students, Szc, (c) Boys under 17 years 16,190 513 2,597 5,543 121 403 (a) The largest figures are :— Town general casuals - 65,128 10,479 21,072 3,695 Country ,, ,, - - 2,628 842 Farm Libourers - 8,205 2,399 Builders' Labourers 2,050 686 Wharf and Dock Labourers - 841 264 Workers in Clay, Sand, jind Gravel . . - . General L'lbourt rs Indoor Factory - . . - 881 1,326 314 490 Metal . - . . 911 284 Textile .... 603 215 (b) Carpenters - - . . 1,526 529 Painters .... 787 269 Bricklayers .... 644 202 Bakers 1,133 406 Butchers .... 1,080 327 Smiths and Fairiers - 1,542 462 Coal Miners - - . . 2,183 644 (c) Carmen, town 4,072 1,374 Porters :— * Heavy .... 864 304 Light .... 1,144 430 Domestics :— Indoor .... 1,116 415 Outdoor . 2,069 626 Tradesmen's Assistants :— Indoor 1,116 415 Outdoor - - . - i 2,069 626 Clerks - 2,-262 692 59 ((/) Consists half of musicians who presumably go into bands, ^ iz. - - . , 244 !