entirely on the data for men and women engaged in the manufacture
of hosiery. ***

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***Children under 16 were employed more generally In seamless than in fullfashioned hosiery
plants. While two per cent of all workers in the 38 hosiery plants were children under
18 years of age, the majority of these children were employed in the miscellaneous group
of counties where pearly one-fifth of the hosiery employes were under 16. In Northampton
ounty, two per cent of the employes were under 18, in Philadelphia county, one per cent.
Berks county had the lowest proportion of employed children, less than one per cent. The
thildren were employed for the most part in the less skilled occupations of the finishing departments.
 Nearly three-fourths of the children worked less than 48 hours a week, includng
 eight hours spent in continuation school. The median for children in full-fashioned
hoslery was 47 hours, in seamless hosiery 39 hours. The median weekly earnings for children
were $11.48 In full-fashioned hosiery and $6.20 in seamless hosierv