The Archive · 1922

CHILD LABOUR

To the Editor of the "Norra-Caixa Datty News."

Sin,—Sometimes we feel like the prophet of old who said, "As T mused the fire burned, then spoke I with my lips."

With many others I am intensely interested in the economic question, especially as it affects "child labour." A few nights ago I was out to dinner in the Yangtszepoo district. T do not keep a car an do not ever expect to do so, but we *phoned for the humble Ford to take us home. It was nearing 11 p.m. and the people were streaming out of the mills—tired jaded women and little children. Others were going into the mills to begin their nightly toil just as we were going home to a warm bed. Oh, those little tired children!! Our car had to go slowly, the road was full of them. Again and again, and far into the night T asked myself ths question, "Why should you be reling in a car, even if only a hired Ford, and those little children toiling to and from work at 11 p.m.?? Sir. I am not a Socialist. that is not in the accepé- meaning of the word. I am not a Bolshevik, far. far From it. But

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