“Of such is the kingdom of Heaven,”
said the great teacher.
Well, if Heaven is full of undersized,
round shouldered, hollow-eyed,
listless, sleepy little angel children,
I want to go to the other place
with the bad little boys and girls.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Saturday August 11,1906
From the International Socialist Review: “How Much Longer?”
From this month’s edition of the Review:
From the Bitter Cry of the Children by John Spargo:
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SOURCE
The International Socialist Review Volume 7
-ed by Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr
Charles H. Kerr & Company
July 1906-June 1907
https://books.google.com/books?id=t7kWAAAAYAAJ
ISR Aug 1906
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=t7kWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA66-IA1
Poem: How Much Longer? by George E. Winkler
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=t7kWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA111
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Bitter Cry, Spargo, NY Cellar Prisoners, Feb 1906
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=jRtShCzm4ygC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA132-IA2
See also:
Review of The Bitter Cry of the Children by Spargo
from the same edition of ISR-
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=t7kWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA121
Hellraisers Journal of May 29, 1906: Mother Jones on Hideous Conditions Of Child Slavery in Southern Cotton Mills
http://www.caucus99percent.com/content/hellraisers-journal-mother-jones-hideous-conditions-child-slavery-southern-cotton-mills
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Child Labor and John Spargo
by Brittany Hunter, Kiara Cash, and J. R. Wilbert