The Archive · 1927

CHILD: LABOUR: IN SHANGHAI

Mneasmn No.1 or. run Jomr Cosi Mirrp: oF Sitawontai. Wosex's the Megalaion of hid Labour in variably come as a revelation.

Pubiintions of thie character in: a world where it- would seem that "everybody's business is nobody's business," we hear vaguely of endeavour to remedy conditions which. cry aloud. for reform, and quickly forget all about Comes the. day when it.is forcibly brought home to us that a few zealous: workers: have taken. the responsibility upon their shoulders, and proceeded todo what—all, should have united:-in doing in the first This is-precisely: the. lesson conveyed: by she. Bulletin under notice. It is-a record-of painstaking inquiry ito total conditions which are abhorrent in the sight of the West. Te traces the progress of endeavour to reform child labour at Shanghai, nce the inception of the movement of five years. calculated to give pause to the most thoughtless.

The Report of the Comm pointed to inquire into child Jabour by the Municipal Council in June, in taning,, among other from Chinese.employers invitation to illuminating of the Commission being particularly 30, The Chinese Government Provisional Regulations are equally instructive. Expressions of Interest from Abroad, including the observations of Miss Alice Masaryk daughter of the President of Czecho-Slovakia, attest the vital character of the inquiry. The Joint. Com.

fee of Shanghat Organizations have rendered useful service in incorporating all this information in pamphlet fotm—

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