Show the heaviest burdens bur dens of unemployment fall on the nations children dy by 0 E R LOVEJOY catl child labor committee the heaviest burdens of unemployment fall on children the employer seeking to cut costs is inclined to hire children perhaps enabling himself to dispense with more expensive help thereby in doing so he may not actually decrease the number of names on his payroll but he may let another man go and that man in turn may find himself up against the same sam necessity of calling on his hig children for help obviously the coin petition pati tion in the labor market is increased when a factory curtails its operations or is ib shut it is not only the men who ar are laid off the boys and girls are laid off too As AB a rule they do d not go back to school once haying having left it to go to work most of the th child laborers in m the united states are in blind alley ois 0 cupat ioui out of line for any adequate vocational training out of line for i in normal times about halt balf of them are regularly erne cm bloyed the others are idle between jobs this irregularity of employment not only leads to a heavy labor turnover in the trades that use child 60 labor but it develops it in th the children a habit babit of shifting and of shiftiest aass es from such auch material mat trial the th ranks of migrant labor are recruited recruit ed |