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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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The Humble Petition of the Under signed
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Labourers and Workmen by the Week Labouring
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That your Petitioners are Employed by the Silk
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Throwers and their Hours of Work are thirteen out of
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That their Wages is eleven Shillings a Week But that
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they very seldom can receive it, For being allowed but
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half an Hour to go to Dinner and return to Work again
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they are frequently necessitated to exceed the Time and
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if but a few Minutes over there are many more Minutes
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(and often half an hour) deducted for it
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That they constantly Work in Water and thereby often
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loose the Use of their Limbs
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That most of your Petr: have Wives and many Children
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to maintain and frequently are out of Work; for want of
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Employment and on Hollydays your Petrs. are not permitted
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That at this Time and for some Time past Provision and
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