NO CHILD LABOUR

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 9

NO CHILD LABOUR

IN U.S. RECOVERY PLAN Employers Pledge Not to Engage Under 16 Years. PORD STILL AN OBSTACLE. 'United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 1. Child labour is history in hundreds of thousands of business establishments, and everybody who signs President Roosevelt's re-employment agreement, estimated by the National Recovery Administration officials as around 1,000,000, is pledged not to employ children under 16 years. Hundreds of others, functioning under codes and modified agreements, are similarly pledged, though in some instances they are allowed to employ children of from 14 to 16 outside school hours. Just how many children are affected is not estimated,, but the 1930 census figures showed 197,021 between 10 and 15 gainfully employed outside agriculture. Jutting prominently among the National Recovery Administration difficulties are the continued silence of Air. Henry Ford toward the automobile code, which will be effective on September o, and the persistent criticism by Labour of the codes' language, which permits hiring and firing on a merit basis.