Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-12
P|TIFUL PICTURE OF
CHILDRENS' WORK
IN CANNER|ES
Young Boys and Girls Put in
Long Hours Of Labor with
Filthy Conditions About Veg
elabIe Plants,
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nv Morning journal special leased Wlrel
Washington Jan. ia eltitul
picture Of men. women and children
Of and . years of age. working
under ulthy conditions and living In
aqualld canning camps of the NeW
york Fruit and Vegetable Canning
Company. WAS presented 10 the house
rules committee today rs Mary Boyle
aReHlN social worker. and Frank
4. Frattp am investigator for the
Kew York labor department IheN
supported resolution introduced by
Representative Allen Of ohio, for an
Investigation of conditions tn the can
Ming industry throughout the eoun-
Try.
Frank Gorrcl secretary Of the Ma
tiennl Gamers Association. declared
that his organization. representing
from 80 tO ~ per cent of the canning
output of the country, Invited the full
est investigation of conditions IA the
industry ana would lend every ass
sistancp possible ~ congress to make
the inquiry thorough. Tire commit
tee took the resolution under advise
meut
Mis- oEeily and Mr. pfaete read
from notes made during personal IN
Iesllgaiion of the canning eamps inl
New York MISS % Reilly shook with
emotion as she described tu the com
mittee the plight of the Children
There are children in tte cHnps,
eeurs old and years old. sh5 sald,
and there arc children AGED ~ and
II years There s nn record If child
abor ana the employers maintain
that The children So 70 the factories
with their parents know of a
eanp where three children working
together earned 40 cent Z day among
them WORKING ln he stripping shed
under the NOW York lass is not con-
sidered factory labor Women IN the /
camps are paid cent q pound for
peas. a strong. vigorous
woman can strip about % or SO
pounds a day a woman IS paid a {
day Tor huskinp worm bat the work /
is very heavy I know Of tive little (
ltalIan girls who are steady workers /
They are sisters aged s and 9 years I
IN one cannery ! visited five italian
boys from 60 Years old. worked I
LIS hours M one week TheN ended I
ihe week by working from O'Clock I
morning until O'Clock sun
lay morning never leaving the fac
Itf ffii' 'l lH' W'NNf Ahiflifta f'tiRf
so refused TO go back 10. the factory
Monday morning
Whom hls mother called him he
eaeed her away, saying ! IN going 20
mt Il out There amt no use he-
ailse there amt no God
Did sau say he worked tla hours
weeh demanded one Of lie COM
nittee
WHY. 1cs, returned Miss Ofiteillt IN
! know oi women who haNe worked
70 hours a week and girls Of lG and
who worked 20 hours 4 day"
Mr. Praetc presented the report 81
Us Investigation of nearly fifty cam
ing camps IN New York state. in ,
hiding camps az Webster, Lyons,
'Bde. Marion Rome and other towns I
the fruit and truck gar
EN- sections Ol the state. HIS deserip-
ion 81 housing and factory condi-
ions. Of nlthy shacks whore the
.arkers lived aud Of conditions Of
saler and sanitation moved Repre-
Denver. of Ohio, to ask II
Did you see these things your {
slf - Ii
Al of the statements made here {
re the result Of my own investiga- !
on. returned Mn Praete. 4 could I
ot flnd words 70 describe the aitua
on. Some Of the places are 20 filthy lf
aat no pig would have been IT home /
nere. Ii