October
When we first came to live in the industrial section of Chicago, thirty five years ago, there were practically no child labor legislation in the state which would [affect] the situation; a provision secured by the miners union to regulate the work of children in the mines and a very defective compulsory education law which exception were constantly made in favor of the children who applied because they wished to work.
The neighborhood was filled with child labor in the box and candy factories, those who carried cash in the department stores, and those who peddled upon the streets. Public sentiment in regard to them was perfectly complacent. Largely following the feeling that most self made men had gone to work early. [page 2]
At the present moment, children are at work all over the world, under educational environment or [illegible] under such [illegible] situations as devastate their health largely in proportion as laws have been passed for their protection.
China -- match factories
S. Carolina -- cotton mills
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