CHILD WORKERS

Evening Star, Issue 13000, 20 December 1906, Page 6

CHILD WORKERS

VICTIMS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISM. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, December 19. (Received DocembcT 20. at 7.34 a.m.) The United States Senate b3S autiiorised Mr Oscar S. Straus. Secne-tary of Commerce and Libor. to investigate, and report on the industrial, moral, and physical condition of the women and t-hildren engaged in labor in the United States. [Mr H. G. Weils, in his recent work, describing his impressions of America, save that '"'' ihe richest, greatest counn> the world has ever seen has over 1.700.000 children under fifteen years of age toiling in fi«lds. factories, miues. and workshops. Robert Hunter, author of 'Poverty,' telle me. of not less than 80.000 children, most of whom are little girls, at present employed in the te.vtile malls of this country. In 'the. South there nr<* now sis times as many children at work a.s there were twerkv years aco. Child labor is increasing vearlv in that section of the country. F.acli year more little ones are brought in from the fields and hills to live in tho de- . gradinc and demoralizing atmosphere of the mill town?."]