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Wal-Mart to cut ties with Bangladesh factories using child labour
In one factory...young boys were everywhere. A label reading Simply Basic, one of Wal-Mart's in-house brand names along with the number CA 28885, the corporate ID of Wal-Mart Canada, was seen... [After] filling many orders, Patwary [the factory manager] said he had never met inspectors from the company and Wal-Mart had not visited the factory... Wal-Mart explained that the factories were subcontractors with no direct business link with Wal-Mart. Still, the company's representative in Montreal acknowledged the problem... spokesman Yanik Deschenes [said] "...we've ceased immediately to do business with these two factories.