Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . o seventy-eight per cent of all the workin the woolen mills. I contribute nine-tenths of all the labor iithe cotton mills. I make nineteen-twentieths of aU the clothing. I manufacture more than half the shoes. I build four-fifths of all the furniture. I make half of the collars, cuffs and shirts. I turn out four-fifths of all the leather. I make half the gloves. I refine nearly nineteen-twentieths of I make half of the tobacco and cigars. And yet, I a
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . o seventy-eight per cent of all the workin the woolen mills. I contribute nine-tenths of all the labor iithe cotton mills. I make nineteen-twentieths of aU the clothing. I manufacture more than half the shoes. I build four-fifths of all the furniture. I make half of the collars, cuffs and shirts. I turn out four-fifths of all the leather. I make half the gloves. I refine nearly nineteen-twentieths of I make half of the tobacco and cigars. And yet, I am the great American problem. When I pour out my blood on your altar oflabor, and lay down my life as a sacrificeto your god of toil, men make no morecomlment than alt the fall of a sparrow. But my brawn is woven into the warp andwoof of the fabric of your national being. My children shall be your children and yourland shall be my land because my sweatand my blood will cement the foundationsof the America of Tomorrow. If I can be fused into the body politic themelting pot will have stood the supremetest.* —Frederic J. National Child Labor Committee CITY HOMES A row of tenements in New York where most of the wometheir rooms finishing garments and children work in
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