Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-23

Children under sixteen years OF age working 10
the lime and cement factories OF New Jersey ruin
their health beyond repair.
Ia the hosiery and knit goods manufactures OF
Pennsylvania children are worked to death for the
sake OF extra profit
In the furniture factories Of North Carolina chill
dren are paid % cents day for hard work The
sane rate of wages obtains in the cotton aud wool
en- millsN
Before the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 8
sitting at Scranton, Pa, February Of this year.
Helen Sisscak, Theresa McDermOtt and Rosa Zinka
each eleven years old, appeared, representing more
than 1900 little girls employed In the SILK mills
and lace factories of central Pennsylvania. The
little girls told Of leaving their homes at $3.50 in the
evening aud working at the factory until $3.50 the
next mOraing. Some OF the little ones were paid
and some cents hour for their work in the
mills. If this is not murder, what is iti
The City Of New York is just as bad. DR.. Max
we superintendent Of the public schools, said not
long ago:
ssThere areparts OAis city wherettle children are
driveR to work early In the morning for two hours
and then sent to our American schools, and after
school are forced into sweatshops, where they are
obliged to work FROM three in the afternoon until II
o'clock at night.r Is not this murder for gaini
Another authority said Of the conditions in New
York
GA local express company employs children of
eleven and upward. They begin work at a. m.
and make their last trip between and 10 O'Clock
til midnight. II the packages are not all delivered
by midnight Saturday they must return on
Sunday morning to finish the task"
IN New York State last year the inspectors found
children illegally employed in 1907 factories.
Money sits above the law and flis children's
graves.
Members Of the New Jersey Federation Of Trades
and Labor Unions testified before legislative com
mittee that in the glass blowing industry ia south
ern New Jersey children scarcely out Of their swad
ding clothes was puttO work at the furnaces aud
made to toll mGny hOuEs a day.
i Mr. William S. Waudby, special agent Of the
United States Department Of Labor, says:
Il have been reliably informed that there we're
over LOCO children between tie ages OF six aud
deurteen empeyed in i've cotton mills which stand
within mile Of the state capitai (South Carolina
Here are some of-the industries in which little
chidren employed throughout these United
States;
Lime aud cement glass, rubber goods, shoddy,
Isaughtering and meat packing, soaps aud candies
mueilage, eOffns grease and taiiOwy matches, pack
ing boxes, charcoal, fertilizers, psgnt and rosin
srtfcial feathers, tobacco, metal stamping wooden,
OottOn and silk goods, clOthing( (sweatshops)and
manufactures of lead, phosphorus, arsenic and
mercury, the last four deadly poisons.
i The question of accidents must not be overlooked.
One New York factory inspector says
|. at is no uncommon thing to see children work
ing minus hand fingers. la enc New York
lofty factory Eve children have been iEiured in fOer
mOnths7 (msimnsd fOrPrOft during the slow process
Il of killing them oa).
Il An inspector in New Jersey says
i 1The numberOf accidents Occurring daily through
unprotected machinery is really frighhuL We
frequently read q young girls having their scalps
torn off, boys having their fingers and arms cut of,
or injured" lrhere is 4.goOd money" made out OF
these chldren.)
! Other authorities speak Of children working in
rooms where the temperature averages ia the sum
mer about 10. And the Commissioner Of the
Bureau OF Statistics u Labsr for Ohio saye
81 have found boys twelEe and fourteen years old
degrees Fahrenheit"
Are gou, as a man and voter, doing your best 20
make child labor and child murder odius among
your lellOwsi
John H. CLARK, nominated FOR Senator By the
81 Ia.raha of hhin nonoIndnd raoanh annnoh with