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The Newspapers and Child Labor
Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar | January 30, 1935 issue

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This article focuses on working conditions among newsboys in the U.S. According to findings by the Children's Bureau, the hours which the newsboys worked were hardly conducive to health or to a spirit of "play." One-third of the street sellers were under fourteen and many of these young boys worked until eight o'clock in the evening and later in the winter. While the carrier boys do not put in such long hours, the Children's Bureau found that about three-fourths of them start work before six in the morning. The majority of the U.S. newspapers hold the carriers responsible for the full amount of their bills and if the boys do not succeed in collecting them, this is their hard luck.

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PAPERBOYS; NEWSPAPER carriers; HOURS of labor; CHILD labor; WORK environment; NEWSPAPERS; UNITED States
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