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American Child Labor, An Unceasing Horror

It Could Happen Here

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The Lawrence Tech Textile Strike

The Lawrence tech textile strike is probably most famous today for popularizing the slogan. We want bread and roses to, which is rung down the halls of labor in socialist history. The part of it that's not talked about as much is that another huge portion of the workers were just fucking children. A seven year old was given a black eye when she was picked up and thrown into a patty wagon by police. Another witness, another witness testified to children being thrown around like rags. It's so ghoulishLike America like companies today have figured out how to do this PR thing of like, Oh, we don't condone child labor. But back in like 800s, they

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