CHILD SLAVERY IN GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 10 February 1917, Page 5

CHILD SLAVERY IN GERMANY.

THE lEOjST GEIP. Light is thrown on the situation in the Father&md 'by the Schwabische Tagewacht: —- "Wo have before lis a wages sheet, of the firm of Sehlenker Brothers, brick makers, of Schwenningen. This firm employs a number of boys under the age of 14 years. The employment of children on work of this hind, calling for heavy physical exertion, cannot fail to produce the most serious effect on their health and development. Unhappily, however, with the prevailing abysmal clearness of living, children ar» obliged to go out and earn something. Parents may bitterly lament the fact tmt grim necessity compels. How terrible must the distress be, however,, when these children have to work ten hours a day in return for a wage oS 21&. What can our official departments be doing to neglect their duties to tbo extent of permitting so ruthless an exploitation of the poor little capacities of such children;'"' When children work in brickfields for a farthing an hour ami mothers have ro send their daughters into the strcefi to earn the bread of dishonour as an don Express), it was certainly high tirao for the Imperial,Chancel! •-.- to sue? 1 ? of the sacred claims of humanity.