. The National Civic Federation review . Six Hundred Fifty Operatives Children in Mill School to find a mill running a night shift. A member of theChild Labor Committee in Georgia had been told by afriend xvho had heard from another leading woman inthe State that water was thrown in the faces of thechildren during certain hours of the night at the TrionMills. As it was not possible to go back to the Trion Mills, a letter was writ-ten to the leadingwoman requesting in-formation on the sub-ject, although when in-vestigating in the vicin-ity of those mills it waslearned thai there hadbeen mi nigh
. The National Civic Federation review . Six Hundred Fifty Operatives Children in Mill School to find a mill running a night shift. A member of theChild Labor Committee in Georgia had been told by afriend xvho had heard from another leading woman inthe State that water was thrown in the faces of thechildren during certain hours of the night at the TrionMills. As it was not possible to go back to the Trion Mills, a letter was writ-ten to the leadingwoman requesting in-formation on the sub-ject, although when in-vestigating in the vicin-ity of those mills it waslearned thai there hadbeen mi night work inthat district for tenyears. Her reply fol-. School Recess Mill, one of the best regulated in the coun-try. The information got mixed in this way:There was at one time a mill in Rome whereI said I had seen a child thrown upon herbed at 10 a. m. in an exhausted sleep becauseof night work. That mill failed and I thinkthe new management has better writer who spoke of underwear woven by tinychildren at night showed complete ignorance of theproduct of the Southc rn mills, which is largely confinedto coarse sheetings and drills for Oriental countries,print cloths, fancy white goods for shirt waists, ging-hams and outing flannels. There are no fine muslins,lawns or cambrics—the materials used for underwear-manufactured in that section of the country. In South Carolina leading mill presidents stated thatthere miglit be some small yarn or knitting mills run-ning at night—possibly half a dozen of the 200 mills inthat State—but not a single mill man regarded nightwork as feasible or profitable, norwas there one operat
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