THE LABOUR LAWS.

THE

LABOUR LAWS.

BY

JAMES EDWARD DAVIS,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;
LATE POLICE MAGISTRATE FOR SHEFFIELD.

LONDON:
BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,

Law Publishers to the Queen's most ercellent Majesty.

T. & T. CLARK AND BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH.
SMITH & SON, GLASGOW. HODGES, FOSTER & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

MELBOURNE: GEORGE ROBERTSON.

1875.

LONDON : PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

NEWTON STREET, W.C.

TO THE

RIGHT HONBLE. THE EARL OF LICHFIELD.

DEAR LORD LICHFIELD,

There is no one to whom a critical examination,

divested of all party considerations, of the changes effected in

the Labour Laws of this country could be more appropriately dedicated than to your Lordship.

I therefore hope you will permit me to connect your name

with these pages, and thus give me an opportunity of saying what a lively recollection I have of hours of earnest conversation at Shugborough and elsewhere on various public questions, and how sincerely

I am

Your Lordship's faithful Servant,

JAMES EDWARD DAVIS.

THE TEMPLE,

1st October, 1875.