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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday March 31, 1912
Lawrence, Massachusetts – Child Workers Must Pay Boss for Drink of Water
From The Coming Nation of March 30, 1912:
“Do you have to pay for drinking water in the mills?”
“Yes. Every two weeks I pay ten cents.”
(Excerpt from the statement of a child worker in the mills at Lawrence before the House Committee on Rules in Washington.) – Kansas City Post.———-
[Detail:]
“Drop a nickel in the slot for a drink water.”
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Mother Jones Quote ed, Suffer Little Children, CIR May 14, 1915
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=PeweAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA10641
The Coming Nation
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 30, 1912, p16
https://www.newspapers.com/image/488967211/
See also:
Tag: Strike at Lawrence MA Hearings U. S. House Committee on Rules March 1912
https://weneverforget.org/tag/strike-at-lawrence-ma-hearings-u-s-house-committee-on-rules-march-1912/
Tag: Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912
https://weneverforget.org/tag/lawrence-textile-strike-of-1912/
Photographs by Lewis Hine, September 1911, Lawrence MA
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=hine%20lawrence%20massachusetts
-re “Protective Tariff,” , see:
Hellraisers Journal – Monday March 4, 1912
“The Battle for Bread at Lawrence” by Mary E. Marcy, Part I
Now everybody knows that the Woolen Trust has based its demands for a higher protective tariff on wool on the alleged necessity of paying higher wages in America than are necessary to support workers abroad. The claim has been made for the past thirty years that the protective tariff was levied primarily for the protection of American workers “against the pauper labor of Europe.” But it has come about that the American workers have been reduced to pauperism under the benign influence of high tariff.
Wm. N. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company that operates these mills, is a very particular friend of both Taft and Roosevelt, as has been made manifest by the substantial favors bestowed on him by them as chief executives of the United States.
[Emphasis added.]
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A Child on Strike-Camella Teoli
These photos ended child labor in the US
Babies In The Mill – Daria
Lyrics by Dorsey Dixon