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CHAPTER IV
CHILD LABOR—AN INDUSTRIAL WASTE
I. The Newer View of Industry
The Treasurer of the Alabama City Cotton Mill, Alabama, wrote to his agent:—"Every time I visit this mill, I am impressed with the fact that it is a great mistake to employ small help in the spinning-room. Not only is it wrong from a humanitarian standpoint, but it entails an absolute loss to the mill."[1] In a letter to the Boston Transcript the same gentleman writes:—"I have never been South without protesting to the agent … against allowing children under twelve years of age to come into the mill, as I did not consider them intelligent enough to do good work."[1]
There can be little question that child labor is a social waste. It hurts the children's
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Child Labor in Alabama: a pamphlet published by the Alabama Child Labor Committee.
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