The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-12-22

The photograph was taken at noon in the absence Of the superintendent
IN had told the photographer that they permitted n photographs to 30 taken
on account Of The child labor agitation.
from Maryland and Delaware. where they are employed in the great truck
months, IN account OF the effective laws Of those states and then are brought
to the gulf coast during the shrimp and oyster season. Thus they get II o
chance at all at a education. Mr.. Hines report is Is follows:
Feb. "a, 1911, asked the manager of n certain packing house for per
ted n o m to take photos around the place while workers were there because
Of the fact they might be used by child labor people On my W responsible
fly, then. I visited the plant at 8 a m, Feb %. 1911, before tn manager ar
rived and spent some time there They all began work that morning at a
6. m, but It is usually 3 a II. o. busy days. The little mes were there too
and som babies on off in the corner. with a mass # quilts piled vel it.
From 4 a. n. the entire force worked until A T. IN, with only enough time
breakfast, got in a hurry and in the dark, wa not likely very nourishing.
Sound asleep o the floor, rolled up against the steam chest, for it was a cold
morning, was little Frank, eight years old. a boy who works some. His sister
Mamie, nine years old and an eager, nimbe worker, said: He's lazy. used
considerable complaint about soref fingers caused by handling the shrnps The
fingers Of many Of the children are actually bleeding before the end of the day
They say 1T is the acid in the head Of the shrimp that causes it. One man.
agr told 10 e that six hours a all that most pckers could stand tile work.
Then the fingers are 81 sore they have to stop. Some soak the fingers in an
alum solution 10 harden them. Another drawback to the shrimp packing is
the fact that the shimps have to be kept ice cold all the time to preserve them
1t would seem that six hours or less OF hancIng1 icy shrmIs WouId be bad fof
the children especially.
THE mother Of three year old Mary said she really does help considerably
So does a fveyearNd sister. br. they said the youngest vas the best worker
There has recently been issued by the bureau of chemistry Of the United
States department Of agriculture circular No. 10 prepared by W. ID Blgeow
and r. F. Bacon. 1t says:
ut is recognized by packers that shrhmps contain some corrosive substance
which greatly interferes with their handling and preservation. 1t attacks the
workmens hands causing tho skin to peel. and alsoe eats through tn leather
of their shoes. Tins In which the shtmps are preserved are quickly perforat
ed. Packers have found that this substance seem to disappear when the
shrmps are preserved with Ice"
es on uniform laws at their twenty-hrst annual meeting in Boston. Aug. 2
and g. 1911. upon the report of their special committee, a distinguished mem
her II which va the Hon. A. r. Stovnn of Mississippi. 1t embodies the bai
provisions Of the child labor laws already in exstence in several states
The uniform child labor law may be summarized thus:
The law prescrbes a general 20 limit OF fourteen For practically vi EN-
ployment. except agriculture and domestic service, and for all occupations dur