Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1925 — Page 3

/WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, 1925

CHILD ARMY LED BY MOTHER JONES of Little Ones From Textile Factories March Cross Country to Oyster Bay.

Aroused by the plight ot children of striking textile workers at Kensington, Pa., in 1903. Mother .Jones assembled a band of them and started on a crosscountry march to Oyster Bay. by way of New York, to see President Roosevelt. Demonstrations en route drew public attention to the mill children's cause. At Princeton. New Jersey. Mother Jones addressed university professors and students on “higher education.’’ A State child labor law was won. This is the fifth of Mother Jones’ memoirs. By Mother Jones f Published by permission of Charles H. Kerr & Cos., Chicago. Copyright. 1925.) mN the spring of 1903 ,1 went to Kensington* Pa., where 75,000 textile workers were on strike. Os this number at least 10,000 were little children. The workers" were striking for more pay and shorter hours. Every day little children came into union headquarters, some with their hands off, some with thumb missing, some •with their lingers off at the knuckle. We assembled a number of boys and girls one morning in Independence Park and from there we arranged to parade with banners to the City Hall, where we would hold a meeting. Crowd (lathers A great crowd gathered in the public square in front of the chy hall. I put the little boys with their fingers off and hands' crushed and maimed on a platform. The reporters quoted my statement that Philadelphia mansions were built on the broken bones and quivering hearts Thi> Philadelphia papers the New York papers got into with each other over the question. The universities discussed it. Preachers began talking. That was what I wanted; public attention on the subject of child labor. The matter quieted down for a while and I concluded the people needed stirring up again. I decided that the children and I would go on a tour. I asked some of the parents if they would let me have their little .boys and girls for a week or ten days. They consented. The children carried knapsacks on their hacks in which were a knife and fork, a tin qup and plate. We took along a wash boiler in which to cook the food on the road. One little fellow had a drum and another had a fife. That was our band. We carried banners. On to Roosevelt We started from Philadelphia, where we held a great mass meeting. I . decided to go with the children to see President Roosevelt to ask him to have Congress pass a law prohibiting the exploitation of childhood. The children wore very happy, having plenty to eat, taking baths in the brooks and rivers every day. Marshall Sweeny and I would go ahead to the towns and arrange

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sleeping quarters for the children, and secure meeting halls. Everywhere we had a riTeeting, showing up with living children the horrors of child labor. One night in Princeton, New Jersey, we slept in the big, cool barn of Grover Cleveland’s great estate. “Higher Education” I called on the mayor of Princeton and asked for permission to speak opposite the campus of the university. I said I wanted to speak on higher education. The mayor gave me permission. A great crowd gathered, professors and students and the people. “Here’s a text book on economics,” 1 said, pointing to a little chap, James Ashworth, who was ten years old. and who was stooped over like an old man from carrying bundles of yarn that weighed seventy-five pounds. “He gets three dollars a week and his sister, who is fourteen, gets six dollars. They work in a carpet factory ten hours a day while children of the rich are getting their highe - : education.” New York Admits Them From Jersey City we marched to Hoboken Finally they decided to let the army come into New York. We marched to Twentieth Street. I told an immense crowd of the horrors of child labor in the mills around the anthracite region and I showed them some of the children. We raised a lot of money for the strikers and hundreds of friends offered their homes to the little ones \<’hile we were in the city. The next day we went to Coney Island at the invitation of Mr. Bostick, who owned the wild animal

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show. The children had a wonderful day such as they never had in all their lives. The next day we left Coney Island for Manhattan Beach to visit Senator Platt, who had made an appointment to see me at nine o’clock in the morning. Senator Platt, when he saw the little army, ran away through a back door to New York. A Real Breakfast I asked the hotel manager If he would give the children breakfast and charge it up to the Senator, as we had an invitation to breakfast that morning with him. gave us a private room and he gave those children such a breakfast as they had never had in all their lives. We marched down to Oyster Bay but the president refused to see us and he would not answer my letters. But our march had done Its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor. And while tb strike of the textile workers in Kensington was lost and the children driven back to work, not long afterward the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a child labor law that sent thousands of children home from the mills, and kept thousands of others from entering the factory until they were fourteen years of age. NEXT: Mother Jones battles a union president. AGED COUPLE BURIED Bn Timm Snrctnl NOBLESVILLL, Ind., Aug. 26. Mr. and Mrs. James Hickson were buried in the same grave In the northwestern part of Hamilton County Tuesday afternoon. Their deaths occurred within thirty hours ot each other.

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