Nov.
WitHn the next few days Dame Adelaide Anderson is due to arrive in Shanghai in the course of a journey she is making round the world. For fourteen years Principal Lady Inspector of Factories under the British Home Office, Dame Anderson is one of the most distinguished women of her time. She studied at Girton, in Germany and in France, and her various publications on Labour questions, the outcome of practical personal experience, stamp her as an expert of the highest order. It may be permissible to add that Dame Anderson's views are inspired by a warm human sympathy not invariably found among experts. It was natural that the various organizations which are interested in the question of child labour in factories should hail the news of Dame Anderson's coming with satisfaction; and that the Council should seek the benefit of her advice for the Commission which it appointed last June to investigate this very appealing problem.
Tt may not be generally realized how much work has been done to bring about at least an improvement of the conditions under which children laboured in factories, during the past few years. The first public express sion of opinion was given in 1919, when the China Continuation Committee at its seventh annual meeting recorded its protest against the use of child labour. The subsequent appointment of a Commission on the Reiation of the Church to China's Economic and Indus-
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