Child Labour in America.

Manawatu Herald, 28 February 1905, Page 3

Child Labour in America.

As a result of investigations in New York, ' c-w Jersey, Connecticut and Maasachusseta, it is foitnd that

thousands of boys and girls are being

ruined by long hours of labour. Agents of the New York Lnild Labour Committee have discovered thousands of children at work in the State who were under the legal age limit of 11. Children as young as three and four were found toiling for a fc.V cents a day. Many have been found so stunted in mina and body that th.CV are ruined for life.

In New Jersey the child labourer is in some communities regarded as a social outcast. The little worker is barred from schools, and shunned by other children. In glass factories the children lead the lives of slaves. They soon became wan and peaked, and die young. fn Connecticut real child slavery ] exislg on many farms. Povertystricken foreigner's have settled ; (here, and are trying to eke out existence by cultivating rocky and so-called worn out lands. In these country districts the father frequently regards bis children as he docs his horses or cows.

it) Massachusetts, the withering effects of child labour are shown in the hospitals and asylums of the State. In a consumptive home in Boston, it was found that many of the inmates hail worked nearly all their lives in mills, The mortality in mill towns is exceedingly high.