Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: Baby Born Sentenced to Life of Child Slavery and Poverty

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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday October 1, 1911
Behold: Babies Born into Child Slavery and Poverty in America

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of September 28, 1911:

CRTN Child Labor, Baby Sentenced to Life, IW p1, Sept 28, 1911

There is little hope for the child of today, born of working parents, but a life of unceasing toil in the master’s profit-grinding hell pens. The child has supplanted the mother and father, because it works cheaper. Child slavery in America is openly carried on and many thousands of little tots are wearing their little lives away in order to make wealth for a fat profit-monger. If nothing else would rouse the great army of men toilers to action, the very thought of the thousands of little children working in the mills, should stir them to action. Child slavery is a greater blot on civilization than prostitution, as it is a forerunner of prostitution, disease and misery. Let us unite industrially and free every child from the greedy grasp of the gold-crazed glutton that fattens from their toil. Ninety percent of the child slaves of the cotton factories of the south are absolutely illiterate. Be a man and fight. Organize and save he children and then yourselves.

[Emphasis added.]

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Child Labor Man of Six Snuff Sniffer
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/14

Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-Sept 28, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v3n27-w131-sep-28-1911-IW.pdf

See also:

Tag: Child Labor
https://weneverforget.org/tag/child-labor/

The Bitter Cry of the Children
-by John Spargo
Macmillan, 1906
(search: “breaker boys” 1900)
https://books.google.com/books?id=5qSXMJQG6E4C

National Child Labor Committee Collection-Lewis Hine
https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-child-labor-committee/about-this-collection/

Search: LoC: lewis hine 1911
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=lewis%20hine%201911

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