White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-11
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and their advent into politics will tend
10 remove this deplorable practice
then the sooner they are permitted
10 exercise their influence the better
for the nation.
In the west little is known of
sweatshop methods. but in the east
ern manufacturing states corporation
dividends are paid by the sweat and
blood of helpless m and little
children. who are forced 10 work ten.
twelve and fourteen hours a day in
shops and factories where nc ventila-
ton is provided and the environment
is vile.
BY such methods criminals are
made. Children who know no child
hood and have no opportunity to go
to school become mental and moral
older, If they survive with such odds
against them. they revolt against
such injustice and a system which
tolerates it, and become enemies of
society.
Weakened mentally and morally,
without hope or ambition, crimes such
as stealing and law breaking general
~ are Insignificant in their opinion,
compared with the injustice which has
been forced upon them. and tolerated
by Law.
Statistics showing the number Of
young girls from such places who
every year are tempted 10 take an
easier way Of livelihood are startling.
An eastern journal recently pub
lished a cartoon on this subject and
beneath it this trite comparison:
xiii me the children" said Herod-
"Slay,"
And the red sword flashed in the
SUM-;
Flashed up and fell-in a merciful
way,
For the killing was speedily done.
And the walls of the victim were
suddenly stilled
In the old-fashioned way in which
Herod killed.
But to slaughter the innocents inch
by inch
- @L1 nLAr -, ~ha mill IN the
mine;
To grapple them down in the terrible
clinch
OF a dollar-mad, daily design,
And slowly destroy them both spirit
and frame
Why. Herod himself would call it a
shame,
Moving picture have taken
up the matter and existing conditions
are depicted more yividly than word
pictures. One of these was shown at
the Bio theater some time ago which
left no room for doubt in the minds
of those who saw 1t as the blight on
our so-called civilization and advance
ment.
DR.. Anna s. Daniels, whose testi-
mony startled the Factory Commits
sion at the public hearing ampliied
her disclosures in an interview. She
said:
81 fnr,nd "a H.. hu af0htann Hannfbc
old, helping its mother make artificial
flowers. The child separated the cut
forms from which the flowers are
made. 1t was the youngest child that
| ever saw at work. but l have seen
almost countless cases where children
of three and four years labor with
their parents. It is not at all uncom-
mon to see a child Of six sewing but
tons on mems trousers.
often a whole family commences
work at five O'Clock in the morning
and tolls necessarily until midnight
or one the next morning.
During the day one of the children
is sent out TO purchase some food,
which is thrown on a table, and when
ever one of the workers becomes hung
ry she grabs a mouthful Of food. They
never stop work for more than five
minutes at a time.
I'VE have found that the work plays
havoc with the eyesight of the chill
dren, and in some cases renders them
blind. Curvature of the spine is com.
mon, as the children sit continually
with their backs hunched."
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