You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Monday July 13, 1903
New Brunswick, New Jersey - "God help the children," Mother Jones
An open air meeting was held Sunday evening in this city. The Industrial Band paraded about town and money was raised to assist the Army's march to New York City. Mother Jones gave a speech and related this encounter with an area preacher. She said that when she approached the clergyman and requested aid for the little children who toil in the textile mills, he referred her to the politicians. Mother replied:
God help the children when the churches turn them over to the politicans.
The Industrial Army has been camped on the banks of the Raritan while Mother Jones and the other women stay in a hotel. Rain and mosquitoes have plagued the army causing a few disgruntled members to complain to
The New York Times before returning to Philadelphia. The
Times reports these few defections with great glee. But never a word of sympathy for the little children who are plagued with long hours of toil in dirty, dusty, hot factories. No decent member of the Industrial Army should begrudge their aged leader a bed in a hotel.
The local Federation of Labor has been assisting the Army while they are in New Brunswick. The plan had been to push on to Metuchen this morning, but it now appears that the Army will spend one more night in New Brunswick.
SOURCES
The New York Times
-of July 13, 1903
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The New York Times
-of July 14, 1903
http://select.nytimes.com/...
Trenton Times
-of July 14, 1903
The Children's Crusade Summary
Day 6: Sunday July 12, 1903
From Princeton, NJ
To New Brunswick, NJ
(Use with "get directions" on google maps to follow general route of march.)
Note: accounts vary as to when the Industrial Army arrived in New Brunswick and when they left that city. My best judgement is that Mother Jones and a few others arrived Saturday night, and the main body of the Army followed on Sunday. Some papers report that they left for Metuchen on Monday, others on Tuesday. It appears that they started out on Monday, then turned back due to the heat, and, therefore spent another night in New Brunswick.
Sunday July 13, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey - Health Officer Orders Landlords to Provide Water to Strikers
A serious health crisis has developed in Paterson due the decision by the Passaic Water Company to shut off the water supply to many of the homes of the strikers. The strike has been on now for five months, and many of the strikers have been unable to pay their rent. The landlords have, therefore, not payed their water bills. It is feared that lack of water for drinking, washing, and cooking could lead to serious health problems, especially considering that many of the strikers are weakened from hunger.
Health Officer J. Alexander Browne will conduct an investigation and will order the landlords to provide water to their tenants or face prosecution. Mayor McBride and the Paterson Police Department will co-operate with the Health Department to alleviate this health crisis.
Some homes have been without water for weeks, but neighbors have been helping one another as best they can. Nevertheless, the crisis is serious, and becoming more so day by day.
SOURCE
The New York Times
-of July 13, 1913
http://select.nytimes.com/...
Saturday July 13, 2013
Worldwide - Stop Child Labor
Hannah Dale & Team: a 6th Grade Project on Child Labor
Hellraisers strongly disagrees with Hannah that this project fails badly! We are delighted to see a team of 6th graders tackle this heartbreaking and shameful practice, and congratulate them on a job well done!
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
International Labor Rights Forum/Child and Force Labor
http://www.laborrights.org/...
Come Little Children based on poem by Edgar Allen Poe
-performed by Erutan
Weep not, poor children,
For Life is this way
Murdering beauty and passions.