The Archive · 1930

CHILDREN TORTURED

IN FACTORIES

London, Dec. 26, The "Daily Herald" gives prominence to-day to an article by Dame Adelaide Anderson in the "International Labour—Review," dealing with conditions in the Egyptian giming factories, In these factories, Dame Anderson alleges, children, some as young as 55 years, are exiployed. They are, she says, spurred on by overseers with canes and whips and are made to work long hours for wages as Tow as ten pence a day, They are Kept awake by the blowing of whistles and the clanking of irons, Children, it is alleged, are also employed under the worst conditions in rug making and tent making.—Reuter

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