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Show CHILDREN PAY FOR WATER. Boys and Girls Te!l of Horrors of Life of Mill Workers. Washington Girls and boys, 14 and 15 years old. striking mill workers from Lawrence, Mass., testified Monday Mon-day before the house committee on rules, which is considering a resolution resolu-tion to investigate conditions that followed fol-lowed attempts to send children from the strike-ridden city. Children told of working long hours for low wages; how they had to pay the American Woollen company 5 cents a week for drinking water, which they described as "canal water." Some of them told of seeing women beaten by police and children "knocked down and hurled into wagons wag-ons "like bundles of rags" a week ago Saturday. |