CHAPTER II

I went down to Atherford a week later, carrying with me two or three letters of introduction given to me by a friend, a member of Parliament for a Yorkshire constituency, who knew several of the leading Atherford magnates. I said nothing to him of my real mission—I gave as reason for visiting this town of factories and workshops a desire to study its industrial conditions at first hand. The place itself I found to be pretty much what I had expected—a big, modern town, the mills and warehouses of which were palatial…