Bingham News | 1923-07-07 | Page 5 | Child Labor in China

Child Labor In China. Women and children are especially cheap In China, says Miss Tak-hlng Shin, a welfare worker ot Hong Kong, who Is now In Europe studying conditions. condi-tions. In China there are 400,000,000 people, with only 4 per cent literate, and they die off by thousands, she asserts. as-serts. When a child is a week or two old she is taken by her mother to the factory, luld In a corner, and fed at Intervals. If he survives, In a year or two she toddles about among the machines. At four or five she learns the rudiments of the work, and at six or seven she Is an adept, taking her place In the ranks of regulnr workers. work-ers. They work from 12 to 10 hours I hours a day.