•Undercover Investigation•
"Tiny babies of six years old with faces of sixty did an eight-hour shift for ten cents a day." — Mother Jones [1]
Mother Jones noticed a discrepancy between the stories she was hearing from workers and what she was reading in newspapers. Wanting to get a firsthand look, she went undercover in the mills and worked alongside the children [2].
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"But the birth rate like the dividends is large and another little hand is ready to tie the snapped threads when a child workers dies."
— Mother Jones [3]
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"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads." — Mother Jones [4]
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"Sleep was their recreation, their release, as play is to the free child."
—Mother Jones [5]
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"They were just little children, but death to them was a familiar face."
—Mother Jones [6]
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