It is almost impossible for us to ignore the old adage, try, try, etc. In the early part of the quarter Dr. C. B. Clarke, who has always taken a keen though non-partisan interest in the welfare of the many coloured organisations in London wrote to the League of Coloured Peoples

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The employment of children begins at the age of ten. According to the law, children under twelve may not be employed in "industrial undertakings"— the intention being that they should do only light work. But the Committee enquiring into Juvenile Employment report that on alluvia

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to the deplorable condition of these Islands and also extracted from the Secretary of State in Parliament and from the country at large some remarkable confessions and yet the machinery of relief has been so slow that unrest still continues. The League of Coloured Peoples has pr