The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . n more than eight hours a day, or at night! Because, probably, of the popular misconception of childrens work in stores, there are twenty-eight states that allow children under sixteen to work more than right hours a day in stores and local establishments, nineteen that allow them to work at night, and sixteen that have no fourteen-year limit for such this is but one phase of child labor. The child in the store has been discussed not because he is our most important problem, but be- YOUNG BR1 whos wi Bakers BarbersBootblacks .Clerks in store;
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . n more than eight hours a day, or at night! Because, probably, of the popular misconception of childrens work in stores, there are twenty-eight states that allow children under sixteen to work more than right hours a day in stores and local establishments, nineteen that allow them to work at night, and sixteen that have no fourteen-year limit for such this is but one phase of child labor. The child in the store has been discussed not because he is our most important problem, but be- YOUNG BR1 whos wi Bakers BarbersBootblacks .Clerks in store;Clerks (not in IDelivery Teamsters Dressmakers, rFarm laborers . Hostlers Janitors Laundry workeiOffice and bunc Newsies Printers Retail Salesmen Servants Stenographers .Stockherders ..Telegraph messTelephone oper;Waiters (According ti A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK Dangling from a rope and otherstunts are every-day affairs forthis five-year-old acrobat in aPhiladelphia theater. A fellowartist, aged three, is in the TENDING STORE The thirteen-year-old grocery boy may become a merchant prince. Put thechances are hell be an uttderpaid clerk all his life—worn out at forty. 396 each of Law ,ers and factory hands, if they dont watch work all day (and some all night) care-freefraid llmiox by Unit- )WINNERS 10-15 YEARS 1,267 1,595 1,831 7,432 •s). 12,680 8,682 4,085 lers 8,418 . 1,419,098 1,567 865 3,627 )OVS 52,187 20,450 3,511 1,380 16,329 89,508 2,707 3,422 ;rs. 4,612 ;.. 2,608 3,581 0 ce nsus) cause he is a good example of thethousands of child workers our statelaws neglect and our federal law cannotreach. The most remarkable thing aboutthese children is that we know so littleabout them. Most of us know a greatdeal about the southern cotton-mill childand the Pennsylvania breaker-boy; butwe are ignorant about the cashgirl, thegrocer s delivery-boy, the newsie, or themessenger. Any attempt to regulatetheir labor is always met by a chorus of,Why, what harm
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