CHILD LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 9

CHILD LABOUR

' ' A PROTEST -BY TEACHERS. 'At : ; a.",meetihg of'the -. Wellfngfferi ~Dis- ■ triot Eduoatipn Helil - last'' evening, the chairman, Mr. J. C.' .'Webb, moved:rr".Tliat the Wellington;; Institute cordially * supportthe. attitude._ of ~ the , .. , Trades aud.jLaßour; Council in' protesting •' against the, proposed - employment ofschoolboys' /in; certain•'.factories: after . ..school houre,.and .is .of t]ie : opinion that-instead-.of; providing facilities for such employment,;the GoveTiimentshould take 6teps. to.reduce, the oyer-press'ure already inflicted on schoolboys..by employers, both . . before ami after school . Mr. Webb cited many o?ses of children ■ who both before and after school houre have to • turn to and...tarn wages that more than often, are absurdly and cruelly 'inadequate for .the work done. It was, .'. in:his. opinion,: a most.improper .thing '. that things should go on in,this way. He did not wish to prevent children • money if,it were necessitous, Ijiit.in many •* : cases'-.it was not. ;it .was both, bad for and unfair to.the.children... fv I- ''Several-: similar.instances, to ; those : IN quoted by Mr. Webb were drawn atten- / . tion .to.. ' '>p : . Mr! .W! Foster supported the motion, fx, arid thought'that" the 'institute'vwould b.o j , lacking' in its duty 'if- it did -not niovo, 1.-CJ . in the direct ion', indicated .by the,motion. V* Several-other-speakers endorsed ...Mr; >•.- Webb's:remarte7 ' < ~-the'motion bc.vibrn%i.^€dT ; to'.'th6 Minister;, '"'of tSe ,*&ii»ster 7 .'of. ; tion? It-was'3.lso suggested tli-at-flie,mat r . 1 i - ter-'bd- brought- under the- .notice; of, the- • "NcW- Zealand Institute. -