CHILD LABOUR
SWEATED IN JAPAN. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) TOKIO, May 11. The maltreatment of girl factory workers, lured from famine stricken farms by promises of easy labour, irevealed by police investigators, who found an appalling unpleasant situation. The girl operators have been forced to work from 15 to 18 hours a day. Tiny girls were badly fed. Under the age of ten, persons are not subjected to the national labour laws, whereupon household industries are sprouting up and avoiding the law’s requirements.
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Grey River Argus, 13 May 1935, Page 3
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84CHILD LABOUR Grey River Argus, 13 May 1935, Page 3
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