RICC YN51
AKK 5/3
Eliad D.1.B
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Monday, July 6, 1970.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHILD LABOUR
To Be Intensified During Summer Holidays
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Some factory proprietors continue to defy the law and to employ
children under 14 despite the increasingly heavy penalties imposed by
the courts.
Assistant Commissioner of Labour Mr. H. Williams confirmed this
today when he disclosed the results of the Labour Department's most recent
campaign.
Fifty-two of the 537 factories visited were found to be employing
a total of 96 children. Only seven were boys.
Most of the children were 12 or 13. They were found to be working
eight or nine hours a day, and to be earning from $7 to $8.90.
The case of each child found at work in industry is referred to
the Social Welfare Department.
Mr. Williams warned that the campaign against child labour would
be intensified during the school summer holidays. Close attention would
be paid to industrial premises in the New Territories, where it was known
that some proprietors continued to flout the law.
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