WHAT ELSE CAN THEY DO?
A SOCIAL SHAME. By Electric Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Times—Sydney Sun Special. Received 5.40 p.m. LONDON, March 22. Social workers discovered babies of three and four years linking hooks and eyes in factories at Birmingham. Children of five years were making match-boxes, paper bags and artificial flowers in London. Child employment is rampant in lace finishing at Nottingham factories. In povertystricken families the children commence work when six years old.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12750, 24 March 1914, Page 5
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