They argued that the work was too demanding for women, even though women had been typesetting for 15 years by this point, and also that women were being used as a source of cheap labour, which was driving male typesetters to take jobs in Australia. Aldis called the Association's actions a "war on women", and accused David Fisher, the union head, of hypocrisy: the union complained of landgrabbers and capitalists taking wealth from the poor man, but were trying to do the same to working women.[18] Public opinion was against the union, and they backed down, although the Factories Act 1891 achieved some of their aims by restricting the starting age for apprenticeships for women to 15 (as opposed to 13 or 14 for men) and allowing them only to work between 8 am and 6 pm, thus preventing them from working on morning papers.[18]