I love articles like this. Read the first paragraph…

Fourteen children working in a textiles factory have been rescued after media reports said an Indian clothing supplier to US retailer Gap was employing underage workers, an activist said Tuesday.

Police carried out the raid after alerts by a non-profit organisation which acted on a British newspaper report that Indian children as young as 10 were working for a Gap supplier in New Delhi.

Since most people read nothing more than the headlines and one or two paragraphs of a news story, you would think, based on what we’ve read that the Gap is using child labor to supply some of it’s products. Right? Not quite.

The children who were rescued late Monday worked in the building that houses the Gap supplier, but did not produce clothes for the US label, said the Save the Childhood Foundation, which works to rehabilitate child workers

“When we went there, we found a room where they had been living and working. Some children were ill and some were not being paid at all,” said Bhuwan Ribhu of the group.

Yes, the children were there, but no, they were not working for the supplier for the Gap. The article does not mention which company they may have been working for. But even so, the Gap pulled some clothes from their line. Talk about peer pressure.

Gap withdrew some garments from sale after Britain’s Observer newspaper said an Indian supplier in New Delhi’s Shahpur Jat area employed child workers.

My question is, if they weren’t working on garments for the Gap, who were they making them for? I couldn’t have been any “big” companies, or they would have mentioned them instead of, or in addition to, the Gap.

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