Chapter 63
The next thing that happened was smoother than Mary had anticipated. The workers at Mr. Thornton's factory agreed to stop the strike and return to work. This was on the condition that Mr. Thornton promised to complete a program of upgrading machines and replacing fans within two years. In addition, he also made public the new environmental standards he had added to the factory: regular watering and moisturizing to keep the factory humid and stop dust from floating in the air, and providing workers with gloves and Miss Lydia Bennett's modified face masks to stop cotton dust from entering their lungs. And then Margaret has managed to persuade her father, Mr. Hale, to change the content of his workers' classes from literature to general hygiene and health, and even some practical life hack
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