Office, Geneva. chat sabest wa 2 fou cee chi abl Me doe Bee nee Se Const carnage be mad i coma tomy of the, Comm a yirn Geoaaing ne ae a Bee ast of commer panty ens aero sreapere we oe eae Doge ead Dea ste sen a Ee a cee vas oe cee hina, of which this is an example, has often been described, but perhaps nowhere do its evils demon-Slrate themselves more clearly than ju the trade now studied, There is a generally accepted view that the Gwner of a factory or workshop frequently takes into his service young fads who come from his own town! of origin and are known to him. and) that on this account he exercises, paternal interest in their whole well: Being, even though they may have to work' very hard, The present study has revealed that while this may the case to some extent, a situation far otherwise exists concurrently. An entrepreneur, who may have paid Visit to a country district, will bring back a small boy promising the! parents that he will have him taught BMrade. He goes from workshop to] Workshop, til finally he finds a master who ig in need of another unpaid assistant. He hands the boy Sver and for this may receive 0, sum! of some $5 for his services, and the: new master may not even know his fame of any facts concerning him. Tt obvious that should he fait ill, oF Become injured there is little sense fof responsibility on the part of the manager of owner of the workshop.
Mtn order to discover with some: exactitude to what extent thers is a {urnover in the employment of young ter lads a list of workers in ten plating fond polishing works was made in September 1925 and checked in Jan-ary 1936, Out of 192 workers, 29 or 18 per cent, had within a' three months' period either left employment for been dismissed. This drop cannot be attributed to any depression, since)
the worker in each place was re~ placed, Since+70 per cent. of the Workers in the group of 200 medically examined were lads under 20 years fof age, it is obvious that the {urn-over isa Jarge one and would in-Gieate that some very casual relation~ used in the industry.
In the International Settlement it believed that more than 1,200 workers are employed at specialized shops established. for the sole purpose of plating and polishing. The figure is Probably higher, since similar work~ ers may be found in machine shops and other concerns not specifically dedicated to plating,
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