Si-—Under the above heading perienced persons—that the bulk of their time will be taken up not in conducting a series of prosecutions those who continue (after due warning) to employ children under 30 or 12 years, but in promoting improvements in factory condition which will not only assist the worksrs, but increase production and promote more friendly relations Vetween employers and employed.
I would refer "E. 1." and those who, like him, ate anxious to abolish child labour but do not like the methods proposed, to the modification in Resolution VII and to the pronouncement issued by the Council. They will see that every care is to be taken to avoid any hardship being inflicted on the children now employed, or their families, but that no fresh children wuder age are on any account to Lo taken into employment. I hope they will, find in this giving of "@isetetion to the Council the bridge "by which this reform can be carried out with safety. +The objections to. altering' thi gra ivemplos" in (a) oF (b) Inssobation VI'to "recruit" or "take them and the generation which will grow up in their place, if they Attended the meeting, and (if they will not move so simple an amendment or the alteration of one word) fat any rate put to the Council (who, efter all, are the body who are Proposing this by-law and respon-lo for its wording) those ques-us which have been discussed such length in your column: than if they stayed away and effectively prevented both the ing and the adequate considerat fof this most necessary reform, Tam, ete, Shanghai, May 30, 10925,
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