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    WITH REFERENCE TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 1...

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    It was tlien resolved to take the names of any ladies and gentlemen present who were willing to form themselves into a Committee .

    Mr . W . Guild , one of the local secretaries to the National Association of Social Science , kindly officiated .

    The Rev . Mr . Crosskey then moved the appointment of Mr . Robert Blackie and Mr / Hutchison as Secretaries of the Committee .

    The motion was unanimously agreed to . The Rev . Mr . Oldhim thought several ladies might be trained

    by the society to undertake the office of assistants in various works of benevolence which the clergy and others in the city were engaged

    in carrying * on . He would himself be willing to employ such a ladyand pay her for her labor . He thought it would be useful

    , to have a central association in London with which the Glasgow Society could correspond .

    The Hon . Mr . Ki _^ _staird said there was already such a central association in Londonwho would willingly communicate the fullest

    , information of their operations . The business then concluded .

    SPECIAL _MEETING IK EDINBURGH . The success which attended the meeting at Glasgow induced the

    promoters to call a meeting at Edinburgh for the Wednesday following , with a view to _organize a committee there . The meeting

    was held in the upper room of the Queen Street Hall , and although not publicly advertisedthe hall was crowded by a highly

    respect-, able audience , chiefly composed of ladies . Among those present were Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes , Miss

    Matilda M . Hays , Miss Emily Faithfull , Miss Isa Craig , Professor PillansProfessor BlackieProfessor BalfourRev . Dr . Lee , Rev .

    , , , Dr Pulsford . _Begg , General Rev . Dr Anderson . George Colonel Johnston Walker , Rev . Mr Dr . . Duncan Wylie , M Rev f Laren . W .

    Mr . Hastings , , General Secretary , of the Social , Science Association _, Mr . Wylie Guildof GlasgowMr . Thomas Knox & c .

    , , , On the motion of Mr . Duncan _M'Laren , Professor Pillans was called to the chair .

    Miss Parkes said she thought it was very desirable that every one should know as much as possible what had been done in

    London in connexion with the employment of women , and she would therefore read her paper prepared for the meeting of the

    Year Social 's Experience Science Congress in Woman at Glasgow 's Work , . ' and 7 At which the conclusion was entitled of , this " A

    paper Miss Emily Faithfull also read hers on " The Origin and Progress of the Victoria Press . " In this paper , Miss Faithfull , it

    will be remembered , touches upon the objection that printing is an unhealthy occupationand states that she believes the high rate of

    , mortality known to exist among printers to ariso in a great measure from removable evils .

    The CiiA . iRMA . isr said that lie might add , as a practical confLrmatioB .

    With Reference To Employment Of Women. 1...

    WITH REFERENCE TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 153

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/9/