Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1929 — Page 15

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CHILDREN SOLD AS SLAVES ON BRITISH BOATS Conations of Horror Are Revealed by Inquiry Into Barge Life. BY STEWART BROWN I nited I ’rrs Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 10.—Children bom on badges loaded with the filth and reluf* of London, children bought and sold for cash and forced to do a mature man's work, at the ages of 8. 10 and 12. There are specters arresting the attention of England, following the i <~poi t of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- < :e;i an offspring of the American In a talk with the United Press representative, an official of the N S. P. C. C. described some of the conditions prevailing on tiie barges and canal boats plying the miles of waterways in England and in Wales. Conditions Are Terrible “For nine years the N. S. P. O. C. has been conducting an investigation of the 3.000 children making their homes and working on English barges and canal boats. Our special patrol officer has uncovered some appalling cases in our efforts to ameliorate a situation v. hich is unregulated by present legLslation. “We have found children of 10 end 12 doing such dangerous and arduous work that many of them have been killed, or knocked into the canal by the barge tiller to drown.” Children Are Sold To comply with legislation against overcrowding in boat cabins, children of bargemen have been given away, leased out to work to other bargemen, or sold the official said. Often tlie children never again see their father or mother and work as virtual slaves under the bargemen who bought them. “Their parents.” continued the official, “often have no other home but their boat and when their family gets too large they deplete it by renting, selling or giving aw'ay their surplus offspring.” Bananas are banned in Italy because they do not grow in that country or in any of its colonies.

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