The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-05
EVILS THAT AFFLICT NEWSBOYs.
Child Labor Committee Specines Indiges.
ten and Roaming - Tive ~ En-.

Child Labor Committee Specifes lndiges.
ten and Roaming - TIVE ~ En-.
The Child Labor COMMITTEES has issued
in support Of the bills at Albany two illus
trsted pamphlets describing the various
classes Of child workers whose condition
It is proposed to ameliorate. The pamphlet
covering child labor in the street u written
by Ernest C. Poole. and Is made up from
observations taken by Mr.. Poole while he
was actually living among some Of the boys
he describes, Among the evils he describes
as affecting small newsboys he mentions
indigestion. smoking. gambling and the
melting Of q nomadic spirit, leading the
boys OF over the country in q state Of mind
which he says u expressed In newsboy
language by the phrase ter chance it,
Following the races leads to this among
have CHANGED it In every big city Of the
country.
spent several months In Europe. To OBJECT
these bad habits. Mr.. Poole asserts, no
useful training for future work IA given.
hood handicapped for steady work by these
habits Of irreRulaTity and restlessnees, TO
say nothing Of the education and other
things they have lost. At least 500 Of the
number, he says. have learned TO live by
the earnings Of vice and crime and vagrancy
IL is stated As q fact that OF the 500 boys
estimated 20 have utterly gone TO the bad
AT the age Of - and who infect the rest
from 10 to 10 per cent. have loathsome
diseases by Is.
are supplied 10y Mr. Poole. To the criticism
that the proposed laws win deprive deserv-
ing families Of pan OF their support the
answer 10 made that In . large majority
OF cases the parents are not dependent on
the earnings Of the boys. a. shown by statis-
ties 81 the Juvenile Asylum,
The two other classes OF child labor In
the s,r~e,s descrihsd are boot blacks and
pehIers The bootblack, IL Ia asserted
is the most ignoIan, OF all stree, workers.
b~osuss, a. M Poole puis u. he 10 .olos.s,
taken most ~ his trade. his hour Tor loaf.
ing and dio~ are the Longest. and tho boys
have 40 chance ~ bsoomilG Anythin. but
/ the lowest ~ day iaborers.
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