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Show BABIES MADE TO WORK. Children Only Four Yoara of Ago Employed Em-ployed In Canneries. Conditions under which children work In certuin canneries of New York state, as observed by a college woman employed as special investigator, were told at a recent session of the state factory investigating commission In Its consideration of proposed legislation i designed to improve labor conditions in J tlie canning Industry. 1 Miss Mary Elizabeth Chamberlain of Vassar. 1000, who had secured work In several canuorles. stated that chll drcn runglng In age from four years up J had boon employed In "snipping" , beans, husking corn or sorting peas and beans, and that during the busy season "the youngsters Avorked regu ; larly from 4 a. in. until 10 p. in. and ; sometimes until midnight." She said ; tlie spectacle of "these little human- J machines, some of them with their fin- J gers wrapped In bandages, the result J of huvlng them split in their work, was- j us sad as it was shocking." She con- tlnucd: "The peoplo of the slate would indeed' be appalled if they wore to" see theso children on cool mornings, shivering iu blankets, at work, scarcely uwnke. 5 Some of the little ones would fall asleep; others would cry and want t stop work, but i hnvo seen them S whacked by their parents and compel- 5 led to stay at their tasks." j Miss Chamberlain said these parenlH wore not Americans, tho American " mothers belii more considerate of n their offspring: She related how one littlo fellow told her he hud been pull- ed out of bed tit 3 o'clock. In the morn S lng after having been up- until 12 thu S night before. "The boy earned $1;40' for working i from 4 a. m. until 11 n. m.." Miss S Chamberlain added, "nnd the nest morning he tearfully declared. 'Hon- j est. Miss Chamberlain, it didn't seem 1 as If I wns in bedJn minuter ' J Miss Chnrabertato told 'the- commis- sion thut the owner' of one-cannery In- slstcd children wen.- noforaployed as ed iu her hotel afrXo'elocliJofte- morn- tihg and "discoversd 'a paratte-of moth- ,vr8 nud children wl baby carriages $ making for tiio camiery anaKi following 5 the procession, fowsd her ceeiBions i 'A'oll fosuded.' S The witness testified thation bo oc- 5 caslon last year, when would reached 5 tile canneries of n risit by the Investl- i gutlng commission "the bosses- hurried tko -kids' out of th plants." i |