Reports on labour and social conditions in Germany . Children Leaving School. Girls Drilling in School Playground. REPORTS OF FOURTH DEPUTATION. Report by R. H. BAILLIE and J. BLOOMFIELD. ANTWERP. On arriving liere we were surprised to see the large amountof business that was being done. During the short period wewere here we noticed lorries going to the docks loaded withbricks, tiles, and rails for shipment to England. Everycneseemed busy and looked happy and contented over their saw no signs of unemployment. Dockers take cargo bypiece-work (so much per ton), and work in eight
Reports on labour and social conditions in Germany . Children Leaving School. Girls Drilling in School Playground. REPORTS OF FOURTH DEPUTATION. Report by R. H. BAILLIE and J. BLOOMFIELD. ANTWERP. On arriving liere we were surprised to see the large amountof business that was being done. During the short period wewere here we noticed lorries going to the docks loaded withbricks, tiles, and rails for shipment to England. Everycneseemed busy and looked happy and contented over their saw no signs of unemployment. Dockers take cargo bypiece-work (so much per ton), and work in eight-hour of the chief industries is diamond-cutting, which employsbetween 4,000 to 5,000 men. We saw no slums as we have inour own towns. Food was reasonable in price, for example: White bread,4 lbs, loaf, cost 6^d. to 7-|-d.; white flour, best Hungarian, perquartern, 7|.; eggs, fd. each ; ^ lb. butter, G^d.; ^ lb. cheese,b^d., i lb. currants, 3d; l lb. coffee, 4|d; ^ lb. sugar. Ifd.;i lb. tea, 9ld. (1 lb. = lf|- ounces.) We had a good luncheon here which consisted of soup
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