<salute> To the Right Honble. Sir Mathhew Nathan. K.C..M.G. <lb/> Under Secretary of State for Ireland</salute>

<hi rend="underline">Memorandum</hi> on the short hours now being <lb/> worked in the linen mills & factories in Belfast <lb/> & district, with the heavy tasks & low pay <lb/> given in certain classes of war work.

I visited Belfast on the 18.<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>—19.<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> January <lb/> 1916, & discussed the situation of the women factory<lb/> & mill hands employed in the manufacture of <lb/> linen, with <lb/> Miss Galway, Secretary of the Textile Operatives <lb/> Association. Avenue Hall, Garfield St. Belfast. <lb/> W. Greig. National Amalgamated Union of Labour <lb/> Avenue Hall, Garfield Street. <lb/> Miss Daunt. Board of Trade Labour Exchange <lb/> W. M<hi rend="superscript">c</hi>Dowell. Secretary of the <unclear>Tenter's</unclear> Society. <lb/> 11. Dover Street, Shankill Road. <lb/> W. Dawson Gordon. Secretary of the Flax Roughers & <lb/>

W. Mackey, of <gap/> James Mackey & Sons' Factory <lb/> 

Springfield Road, Belfast<lb/>

& with about a dozen numbers of the textile operations <lb/> 

association who met me for the purpose. </p>

I told each & all that I had come to get<pb/>