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Child Labour and Child Crimes 325
This bill laid down that women, children, and
young persons should not work more than ten
hours a day in textile factories. This law was
succeeded by others of the same type. Similar
conditions in other lands have produced simi-
lar legislation. In Saxony, Belgium, Alsace,
and the Rhine Provinces the results of the
system seemed to be just as frightful as in
England. On the Rhine, as early as the year
1838, a Prussian army officer noticed that the
number of those able to bear arms had dimin-
ished as a result of the degenerating influence
of woman and child labour. But notwith-
standing the introduction of this legislation
generally, the labour of women and children
continues. It takes the most destructive
forms in those occupations which lie outside of
the sphere of legislation. There are places in
which child labour is as shocking as it was in
England in 1848. In Russia, in the Bastmat
weaving industry, children of three or four
years have been found at work; and masses of
children under ten working as much as eigh-
teen hours a day. In Germany the toy in-
dustry can show as cruel figures in connection
with children’s work, all the more cruel because
in order to provide enjoyment for happy
children the living energy of others is forced
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