You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Thursday July 2, 1903
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Today we pause to remember 16,000 children on strike.
The Great Textile Strike in Philadelphia continues. Of the 100,000 on strike, 16,000 are children. We pause to remember them today with this verse:
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In this boasted land of freedom
there are bonded baby slaves,
And the busy world goes by and does not heed.
They are driven to the mill, just to glut and overfill
Bursting coffers of the mighty monarch, Greed.
When they perish we are told it is God's will,
Oh, the roaring of the mill, of the mill!
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From "The Children of the Mills"
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
From
The Cosmopolitan
of November 1902
SOURCE
The Ella Wheeler Wilcox Society
http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/
Read the entire poem here:
http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/...
See also:
The Bitter Cry of the Children
-by John Spargo
The Mcmillan Company, 1906
http://archive.org/...
Hellraisers
-of June 17, 1903
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Wednesday July 2, 1913
From the International Socialist Review: "The Hatfield Whitewash"
Governor Henry D. Hatfield
Instead of an editorial on the Socialist Party Investigating Committee's "Whitewash" of Governor Hatfield, the
Review chose to reprint a few of the opinions from other Socialist and trade union sources, described as being
"on the ground."
In the Appeal to Reason of June, Comrade John Kenneth Turner wrote:
The Governor is more a criminal than the [?] brothers themselves: for in addition to the crimes they have committed he has committed others, among them, a plain violation of his oath of office. Governor Hatfield a few days ago declared that Mother Jones had never been imprisoned. Hatfield is a liar.
From Comrade W.H. Thompson, editor of the
Huntington Socialist and Labor Star:
In regard to Berger's interview with himself, we were all released from prison BEFORE the committee succeeded in gaining a conference with the King..and the Governor has not reimbursed the owners of the two confiscated Socialist papers. When we sent a committee to see His Highness in regard to making good this damage, he told them to GO TO HELL.
Comrade C. H. Boswell, who spent his share of time in Hatfield's Military Bastille, says:
The Governor has completely failed to keep his promise made so freely to the Investigating Committee.
And two Comrades described as being Socialist editors of West Virginia write:
Hatfield, Haggerty [of the UMWA] & Company set a trap and our Socialist Investigating Committee walked right into it. The committee's report is absolutely incorrect in regard to Hatfield. The Investigating Committee have made asses of themselves.
SOURCE
International Socialist Review
-of July 1913
http://archive.org/...
See also:
Hellraisers
-of May 4, 1913
-& May 5, 1913
Tuesday July 2, 2013
U.S.A. - Child Labor Continues in the U.S. to this very day!
Human Rights Watch on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/...
See also:
"US: Labor Department Abandons Child Farmworkers"
From Human Rights Watch, April 27, 2012
http://www.hrw.org/...