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Show CHILD LABOR INNEW Y0RK; More Exists -in That- City ; ! Than 'In AH States of South Combined. vi : ' NEW YORK, Jan. 12. A remarkable revelation of child labor in this city Is about to be made, which . many who have studied the matter declare ; will show that . more child labor ' exists in New York than in all the States of the South combined. ' The facts on which this revelation are based have been gathered in the last six months by the Child Labor commlt-tee.of commlt-tee.of New York, t Since May, 10D0 cases of child labor in the tenement regions have been Investigated by skilled' workers. work-ers. These, thousand; cases in no way are " singular, but representing . thousands thou-sands of others, have been classified and tabulated on blanks containing the names, dates,. addresses and sources of information, furnishing a mass of original orig-inal material for reference and publication. publica-tion. Public school teachers,-, factory lnspectors,r keepers of boys" lodging-I lodging-I bouses and the children and parents themselves have furnished the facts. |