Black Market In Child Labour
A black market in child labour has started on the farms of Fife, Scotland.
Farmers, desperate to gather the potato crop, are paying children up to 13/6 a day, sometimes more. Trouble began when boys and girls from city schools learned that farmers paid 12/- a day for young helpers who, however, got only, 8/-. The 4/- difference went to'running the scheme. ■ '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 5
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67Black Market In Child Labour Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 5
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