LONDON UNDERGROUND DENS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13485, 3 June 1914, Page 2

LONDON UNDERGROUND DENS.

The Marquis of Salisbury, presiding over a gathering interested in the. furtherance of the Underground Workrooms Bill, said the Bill was a direct lineal descendant of the great body of factory legislation already familiar, to the public, and the'subject was ono which required the urgent attention of the House of Commons. It was framed with the object of releasing the vast body of workers, men and women, who are compelled to work in basement factories and workrooms. Mr. Chiozza Money, M.P., said there were tens of thousands of young women and girls employed in the City of London, and they could be stuffed into any hole their employers pleased, and it was legal to do so. The conditions of work in tinderground kitchens were described by Mr. P. A. Young, of the Hotel Workers' Union. In the underground kitchen of a well-known West-end restaurant, he said, there had been,during the past seven months 54 cases of heat apoplexy.