During her stay in Shanghai, Miss Lester, who has been engaged social" years, ited the Rickshaw Shelter, and ral local factories. She was favourably impressed with the Shelter, which she described 'a5 "far advance of similar institution 1 have yet seen." In direct contrast to the shelter, she admitted being "shocked and appalled" by factory conditions.
foo unbelievable for words," she id, was the fact that 12-hour shifts are worked by children, many of stem are between the ages of 8 ant Miss Lester declared that hardly could believe it possible t were permitted to work as Jong as 16 hours at the changing of the shifts. She thinks that, if all women in China' would work together, these terrible factory con ditions could be ameliorated, ask you, British, American, and other foreign' women, as well as the Chinese, to go through just one fac-{ory aid then Yam sure you wil something about changing the conditions," she said, Miss Lester will return to China this month and remain here until December, when she intends to sail for India, to attend the Indian Women's National Conference.
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