BABIES IN FACTORIES
SOME TERRIBLE DISCLOSURES. BRITISH LABOUR METHODS (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, March 22. Received March 23, 5.40 pm. • Social workers discovered babies three and four years old linking hooks and eyes in factories at Birmingham. While othert of five years were making match-boxes, paperbags, and artificial flowers. In London child employment is rampant. and at the lace finishing factories In Nottingham the Children of poverty stricken families commence work at Six years old.
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Southland Times, Issue 17608, 24 March 1914, Page 5
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