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Age Limits in Employment

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 8.

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Age Limits in Employment

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It is now stated that various classes of employers are establishing an age limit both for hiring men and for retaining them in their service. Some railroads and large manufacturing establishments now refuse to employ a man over 35 years of age, and mechanics are discharged by these concerns at the age of 45 because they are too old for service. This is but the outgrowth of this present-day strenuous life, which puts the gathering of dollars above the worth of the human soul. The worship of money is crowding the feeling of humanity out of the hearts of men.