7 A.M. And Work example essay topic
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Left - At 5 p. m., boys going home from Monougal Glass Works. One boy remarked, 'De place is lousy wid kids. ' Fairmont, W. Va. Mid - A few of the young workers in the Beaumont Mill. Spartanburg, S.C. Right - Fish cutters at a Canning Co in Maine. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. The 7 year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger but helps his brother regularly. Behind him is his brother George, age 11, who cut his finger half off while working. Ralph, on the left, displays his knife and also a badly cut finger. They and many youngsters said they were always cutting themselves. George earns a $1 some days usually 75 cents.
Some of the others say they earn a $1 when they work all day. At times they start at 7 a.m. and work all day until midnight. Left - Getting working papers in New York City. Mid - Children on the night shift going to work at 6 p.m. on a cold, dark December day. They do not come out again until 6 a.m. When they went home the next morning they were all drenched by a heavy, cold rain and had few or no wraps.
Two of the smaller girls with three other sisters work on the night shift and support a big, lazy father who complains he is not well enough to work. He loafs around the country store. The oldest three of these sisters have been in the mill for 7 years, and the two youngest, two years. The latter earns 84 cents a night. Whitney, N.C. Right - Some of the workers in the Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore, Md Left - A group of newbies playing craps in the jail alley at 10 p.m.
Albany, N.Y. Mid - 11: 00 a.m. News ies at Skeeter's Branch. They were all smoking. St. Louis, MO.
Right - Richard Pierce, age 14, a Western Union Telegraph Co. messenger. Nine months in service, works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes and visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Del.
