Hellraisers Journal: Fatherless Children, Child Labor and State Laws for Mothers' Pensions

There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday April 23, 1916
The Labor World: "The Widow's Mite"

Widow's Mite, Child Poverty, Labor World, Apr 22, 1916.png
Child Labor Poem, Shadows of Dawn by Hudson Maxim, Labor World, Apr 22, 1916.png

The above drawing and poem are from the front page of this week's edition of the Duluth Labor World. On page three of the same edition, we find the following map of states which have passed laws which could, perhaps, save children whose fathers have lost their lives to American industrialism from having to leave school and sacrifice their own young bodies to the mine and the mill.

Map: Mothers' Pensions, Labor World, Apr 22, 1916.png
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Labor World, Apr 22, 1916.png
From The Labor World of Duluth, Minnesota, Apr 22, 1916:
-Widow's Mite, Child Poverty & Child Labor Poem
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49876553/
-Map: Mothers' Pensions
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49876555
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detroitmechworks's picture

Not the one where the pensions are granted. Rather they want the one where everybody toils for the good of the capitalist, and you have to die on your own time.

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JayRaye's picture

work instead of loafing in public schools on the taxpayers dime!

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons

Gerrit's picture

Wonderful World" opened to such poor initial reception: it still hit too close to home.

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JayRaye's picture

And so few forget how recent this history. I personally have known older people who had to leave school and go to work as children upon the death of their fathers. Someone who was an elder when I was in my early 20s would have been the age of the children described by this poem in 1916.

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Gerrit's picture

And the capitalists really want us back in that world. Er, no. We will drive them from our towns and lives. By all the means necessary. We're gonna talk lots about that in the resilience group.

I wrote today about driving the corporation out of local communities: specifically introducing the concept of forbidding corporate banks and making the legal format for banking businesses only that of the credit union. We can't kill that sociopathic legal business form at the national or state (maybe South Dakota) levels. But we can drive them out of our local communities. We're gonna talk lots about these things.

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JayRaye's picture

tomorrow for sure.

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have for how folks can get rid of corporations in their towns and replace them with cooperatives.

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