This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...truth that the employer of to-day cannot afford to employ young children. Says the manager of a jute mill: --" We used to employ one hundred and thirty-seven kids, but we have cut the number down to eighty-seven this year, and we expect to go on reducing it. Our mill is turning out more stuff than it used to, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...truth that the employer of to-day cannot afford to employ young children. Says the manager of a jute mill: --" We used to employ one hundred and thirty-seven kids, but we have cut the number down to eighty-seven this year, and we expect to go on reducing it. Our mill is turning out more stuff than it used to, and we find it cheaper to work with older help." 1" Restriction on Child Labor in Textile Industries." By Howell Cheyney, Cheyney Silk Mills, So. Manchester, Conn. Proceedings Fifth Conference on Child Labor, National Child Labor Committee, 1909. P. 91. In all industries, and in all sections, thoughtful employers who have considered the matter have reached the same conclusion. They have decided that it is in the long run cheaper to invent machinery or to employ adult help and thus replace the children. The " kids " are " quick " and " cheap" but they are unreliable, wasteful, and expensive as accident causers. Child labor is cheap labor, and the product of this cheap labor is a cheap product. Miss Jane Addams tells of seeing a child of five in a Southern cotton mill helping to make sheeting for the Chinese Army. The product was poor and very cheap, but so was the market for which the product was destined. " In the Georgia Legislature last summer a noted cotton manufacturer, a member of the Georgia Senate, in an eloquent plea against the child labor system, challenged hia associates in that business who were also members of the Senate, to disprove his statement that the same quality of cotton goods manufactured in the South was sold at a price from two to four cents a pound lower than these goods manufactured in the North.... A Georgia cotton mill imported skilled laborers for the manufacture of fine goods. The goods were sold at Philadelphia...
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