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Show Child Slavery In the North. A great deal has been wrltton of late about child labor In tho South, and especially by our esteemed Northorn contemporaries. It Is unfortunately a fact that llttlo children aro employed In somo of tho Southern cotton mills who ought to be at school, and who aro being deprived of their childhood. But In a recent number of McCIuro's Magazlno Mr. Francis H. Nichols directs di-rects attention to child labor In a Northern ntato, comparod with whom thoso of tho South enjoy a llfo of easo and plcasuro. Theso unhappy llttlo toilers aro In tho anthraclto region of Pennsylvania nnd number nearly 30,-000, 30,-000, of whom 24,000 are boys who work for tho mining companies, and tho others girls who work In textile mills established In tho mining region re-gion In ordor to utilize this cheap labor. la-bor. Thus tho population of tho mining min-ing region Is becoming moro nnd moro donsoly Ignorant, blttorly hating their employers, but knowing nothing beyond be-yond coal mining, and for this renson absolutely at tho mercy of pitiless corporations. cor-porations. Baltimore Sun. |