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 * CHILD DEAD IN THE TEXTILE FACTORY**

//Monday this week another young boy was found dead in the textile factory by a worker. Three children have been found dead in different factories till now. The hard working conditions, exhaustion and lack of proper tools are some the reasons that led to the deaths, but the factory owners won’t take any responsibility.//



The factories are doing well these days with good products on the marked and high sale numbers, but the ones who aren’t doing that great are the workers. The bad conditions at the factories are critic and the dissatisfaction of the workers is growing. The thing that surprises many people is that a great number of the factory workers actually are children.

Most of the children at the factories are children from poor families or without families at all. To work at a factory is very often the only way they can support themselves, and earn a little money for food and clothes. But the children work as slaves for the few pence that they earn. Most of them work long hours, where they go to work before the sun gets up and they get back home in the night. The treatment that they get from their supervisors or overseers is not the best either. We have heard several stories where the children have been beaten up if they didn’t come to work at time.

The bad working conditions at some factories are just terrifying. Old and rusty machines are the biggest reason for the many injuries that occur during the work. Proper tools are also not always available. The cold is also a great problem sometimes, because the factories are badly isolated and often also not warmed up. Despite this, the factory owners are not willing to invest in better conditions for their workers.

The injuries that the children get are on a highly dangerous scale, and sometimes they even end with death. This week a third boy was found dead in a textile factory in east London. His identity is unknown, but the age of the boy was just seven years. He was found by a worker on the next day. The factory owners have no comments on this case, and are not open to the newspapers.

We can find children all the way down to the age of four years working in factories. Most of them never get the chance to get a proper education because they stay stuck in the factories the rest of their lives, or in many cases all the way till they get sick. But they are still willing to work under bad and dangerous circumstances just to earn a few pence. The children of Britain, our future, are desperate to survive.

Is this the right way for workers to be treated? Is it right to make use of children and make them earn bread under conditions like these? We believe not, and we can just hope for a better day tomorrow, where the workers will have brighter days and children won’t have to die while trying to earn for living.

Vanja Ignjatic