A BOY-LABOUR DISPUTE.
A CH.TNESE PabaLLEL. The question of the employment of boy labour, which is at present exercising the Boilermakers' Trades Union in "Wellington is, curiously enough, not unknown in China, where the unions have a characteristically oriental method of enforcing their decrees. The Gold Beaters' Union of Souchow the Athens of China—some time ago wrecked a terrible vengeance on c.ne of their cratt. Gold leaf was needed to an unusual amount for the Emperor. One of the craft represented to the magistrata that if he were allowed to take a number of apprentices the work would be greatly expodited, and having obtained permission, he proceeded to engage a great many apprentices, violating thereby a law of the trade which disallowed an employer to take more than one apprentice at a time. His conduct infuriated the craft, and the word passed round, ' Biting to death is not a capital offence.' One hundred and twenty-three of them rushed on the miserable man, each taking a bite. Death soon relieved the victim of fiendish rancour. To make sure that no'ne shirked duty on that occasion, no one was allowed to quit the bhop whose bloody lips and gums did not attest to his fidelity. The murderer who took the first bite was discovered and beheaded.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 124, 24 April 1895, Page 3
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