New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-16

Elizaheth McMurtrie Dinwiddie,
no. heen travelling about the country
VIZ WY. last autumn, showing a collection Of
s '',,rss and posters and data with which
National Child Labor Committee Is
u" IN arouse public opinion on the
So, So, of child labor. and who is now IN
. work with the exhibit. is the com
'o.s Pooh Bah. She is not only her
nrcss agent, business agent and
Ter. as well as demonstrators and lect-
20, hut frequently her own carpenter, as
,ell
.ciock a. m. last Friday In the build
The northwest corner of Fourth ave
md Goth street. and at O'Clock that
~, .,,s Miss Dinwidde awoke to the fact
nv, .hs mixtures weren't in place, the man
US" ho5 promiscd 10 help having failed
VI" =, o'clock she was mounted on
u.,.daer welding n hammer with a pre-
'.ioo that won the admiration OF the po-
ureman ON that post
- sure now" he calculated. after
s,,e in the doorway for ten minutes
'.t,,g bcr we're wan O tn few women
-, can dhriye a nail straight"
IT, canvas on which the pathetic picture
,.,,sl breaker boys and wee workers in
..uo,,ont sveatshops are mounted is hung
I'm Mcclure moulding nailed ten feet or
= f,or, the ground. It's a trine difficult
h.,d,c AZ that height strip of mould
~, ton or fifteen feet long and to put II mp
.,rajrht When the young manager OF the
,,bibit nausea. painting. after conquering
30 last wriggling strip. she found burly
vorkman I'm the spot where the policeman
Rad been. also staring at her.
I'm q carpenter an | want { say,
miss no told her. that YOU ought t take
= m carpenters trade.
All 6sv Friday and yesterday people
7-orped I'm. looked at the pictures and went
AFT The child labor question is as old as the
lus and vet IL is ever new. The children
A. the pictures shown this year aren't the
,ame children that appeared In the pho
,osrsrhs taken 10y the committees investi-
Gators IN former years. That is the sad
or,-consiautly new little victims arc
f,lug fed into the nav of the great ma
chino Of labor which presses them and
r-ipds them into shapes that Will never be
normal all their lives long.
one group Of pictures shows crowds Of
tiny cranberry pickers in New Jersey
Some people say this work can't be bad
f,r the children. because it keeps them out
doors" Miss Dinwiddie said. But look at
M places where they sleep, many of them
little windowless huts. in which whole
hnnies are herded together thicker than
ssitle in a stable
You know, these pickers arc mostly
Gom the slums Of big cities. chiefly New
York. First they go TO Maryland for the
urawberry picking. Then they hike over
INTO Delaware for tomato canning time,
and then TO New Jersey for the cranberries.
From there they go TO the Gulf States 10
shuck' shrimps and oysters for canning
Smoking shrimps is hard. because there is
Al acid in the shrimp that eats the fingers
md the hours are long. The shucking
houses open at 4 o'clock in the morning
pmetimes at 3, and the fathers and
Mothers crowd in with their children to
work. See those pots in the pictures-fair-
| N large ones, they are-but a child shucks
one fun of oysters for a nickel.
It's curious" Miss Dinwiddie went on
how the parents frequently urge the chill
lren on 10 work Bins lazy, one mother
aid Of her little boy who complained tina
10 was tired. If he wasn't lazy he could
srn Is cents day
when the little girls get so tired the!