Excerpt from Report of Conference on a Minimum Wage: Held at the Guildhall, London, on October 24th, 25th,& 26th, 1906 The Exhibition of Sweated Industries which the Daily News organised in May, 1906, called attention in a vivid and forcible way to the question of Sweating. It was the common feeling of those who visited the Exhibition that the interest and indignation that it excited ought not to be allowed to pass away, but ought to be used as motive power for a constructive attack on Sweating. Consequently, it was resolved to form the anti-sweating League, and, taking inspiration from Australia and New Zealand, to work towards the setting up of machinery to deal with Sweating on lines of a Compulsory Minimum Wage in specified industries. The circular given below explains how the League, desiring to get this policy confirmed and adopted by the Trade Unions and other interested bodies, called a National Conference at the Guildhall for the discussion of Sweating and the Minimum Wage originally intended to occupy two days, the announce ment of the Conference secured such public attention as to decide the Committee of'the League to extend the sittings to a third day, and thus to make possible a fuller discussion of the papers submitted to the Conference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.