| Show much good gray matter 1 has ins been troubled over the g extent of child labor lab or sad ead fate of children in the united states under sixteen years of by ROBERT P GREEN new york age alleged to be at work at I 1 gainful and often painful I 1 occupations in this country but the census figures do not substantiate these dismal statistics so sweet to io the tongue of socialist orators and up lifters there are but instead of the vast majority of these are fourteen and fifteen rears ears old and should in fact he be wor working kina the proportion in mines and factories fac lorica and what may perhaps be allce unsuitable work is given in the census figures for 1910 as under antler sixteen years of at fig age e in mines li which vIlich is less than three quarters of ne per cent of all so employed moreover five eighths of the work ver ground the persons under sixteen years employed in factories numbered by the census about 2 per cent of the total of persons so maloyed mp loyed i children of course should not be put to work at too tender an acl ace out just why uby amona an one should want to keep the children unemployed after fourteen years cars of age ae is very strange when will they learn to work if not when they are young youn keeping g them at school all day dav is very ittle attle use |
