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Show CHILDREN PAY FOR WATER. t Beys and Girls Tell of Horrors of Life , of Mill Workers. t WnshlngtonGirls and boys, 14 and 1 16 years old. striking mill workers from Lawrence, Muss., testified Mon- 1 day before the house committee on rules, which Is considering a resolu- ' tiun to investigate conditions that fol- ' lowed attempts to send children from the strike-ridden city. Children told of working long hours ' for low wages; how they bad to pay 1 the American Woollen company 6 v cents a week for drinking water. 1 which they described as "canal 1 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. |