The growth of the new system, said Mr. Fryer, is being accompanied by all the ancient evils: history is repeating itself in such detail that no more faithful reproduction of industrial conditions over a century ago can be found than in the conditions of Chinese industrial life today. The hours are long, so long that the women and little children often fall asleep on: their machines and become maimed for life. Holidays are almost unknown, only a few days each year, the housing facilities are a crime, }and wages entirely insufficient to support the workers and their families. Little children are allowed to work 10 or 12 hours a day or: night, day after day, night after who usually started when quite night, with no time for play or hundreds of years been a restraineds
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