To the Editor of the "Nomtu-Cuia Daly News."
Smj—I could hardly be called a Jcorrespondence columnist. It is seldom that I trespass upon the Jcoveted space—that space recently so vibrant with child labour altruism, but now so mute, But archaeological researches in the valley of lost causes are sometimes worth while.
To be brief, the suggestion that lied all desire to vote on the chili labour amendment was the threat lof a dole. A dole is a very valuable thing in countries whose politicians fare too stupid to provide public utility work for the unemployed. But to think of a dole on, as it were, a mere peck of a foreign island surrounded by a human sea of teeming millions of Chinese is, to put it mildly, a stunning con-
'The solution of the question is, of course, to hire mo more children under 12 years of age. This course would throw none out of work at present, but automatically in abou' five years' time there would be n young children left in the mills—and we should be spared the spectacle of the Council acting as There is time to thin}
Tam, obe., Shanghai,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.