Show COOLIES LABOR TWELVE HOURS I Apprentices Suffer r l Most lost ost Toiling Toiling as asI I Many fany as S Nineteen Sn I Service Special l Corre Corte- 1 Shanghai Sept G. C. C American labor I unions arc are In many ca cases cases s' s dissatisfied with the hour eight hour day ay and Y would reduce re reduce re- re I duce the tho hours of or labor Jabor t to six China has no fixed number of hours for work worl I except c In the case casc of or certain vidual factories and firms firma With some somo I of the latter tho the twelve hour da day prevails pre pre- prevails vails while with a smaller proportion proportion proportion tion the hour eight d day dha ha has become the custom In the tho shops however the hours are aro Just as long as the tho proprietor wants to keep open Tho The apprentices youths who ho In America would still bo be in the grammar school or the first year car or two of or high s school hool arc are the ones who suffer most from thIs this Their work- work time varies arles anywhere from twelve to nineteen hours hOUIS Most of or the shops keep open at least sixteen hours It is 15 estimated that In the shops of ot the foreign n settlement alone in Shanghai Shang Shang- hai there are arc more moro than boy ap ap- ap prentices Their pa pay Is small or nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing Ing- Ingal at al all though the they do receive rice and lodging lodging- where th they work Very cry few lof of the boys aside from those employed in Jn Christian establishments establishments establish establish- ments menta have chance for lOl an any study or orpia pia play They arc are bound out h by their thell parents or guardians g to tho the shopkeepers ers and tradesmen to learn a n. trade hade in much the same wa way that English boys bos used to be bo apprenticed They are aro al almost almost almost al- al most as completely at the tho merc mercy of ot the man to whom they are apprenticed apprenticed apprenticed as os though ho had bought them a. a 02 an slaves as still happens ix II In Cb China na and have hMo no redress from cruel and Inhuman inhuman man treatment Little so far has been done for tor the tho I apprentice boyS by tho the ml mission slon work work- j I ers cry In China because the bO boys having ha j been apprenticed b by their parents or luar guardians cannot easily be released I But much Is being done for lor tho the childhood childhood child child- hood generally of China and this will j eventual eventually react upon tho the apprentice I boys bos and mako make their situation more moro tolerable The Episcopal church alone I which has activities In six of or the tho eighteen provinces of China has US I Icia Iday cia day and thirty eight boarding schools I in China attended by a total of at pupils |