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Mary Harris Jones Lead a Strike in Pennsylvania
Mary Harris Jones supported a strike by 75,000 textile workers, about 10,000 of the strikers were children ( CL4). People wanted child labor to end, so they went on strikes, and Mother Jones was a child labor activist, who was fighting for the end of child labor. -
The National Child Labor Committee was Founded
The goal of this organization was the abolition of child labor ( CL4). People who saw the harms of child labor where trying to bring the attention to other people, and where trying to end it. -
The Bitter Cry of Children
Muckraker Jihn Soargo wrote The Bitter Cry of Children, exposing the condition of child labor. His book was one of the most read exposes of child labor ( CL4). People actually started to spread awareness, and when that happened people's attention on child labor was caught. -
Working Conditions
Lewis Hines took a picture of children working in coal mines, and wrote a caption on the bad effects of working in mines. Lewis was bringing the attention to many people, explaining how child labor negatively effected the children. -
Triangle Factory Fire
A devastating fire erupted killing 146 people in the Triangle Short Waiste factory. Child labor wasn't, children were out in unsafe conditions all day, and were often killed. -
President Wilson on Child Labor
When President Wilson was electd president, he ran on a campaign to encourage congressional legislation to stop big businesses from abusing their powers (CL5). -
Keating- Owens Act
The Keating- Owens Act was passed, establishing an age limit for the age you could start to work, and a time limit of a maximum of eight hours a day (CL5). People were aware of the horrors of child labor, and the government has takenaction, and has passed a law restricting child labor as much as possible. -
Child Labor Tax Law
The government passed the Child LAbor Tax Law, which a tax on business owners, for having child laborers ( CL5). Although this law was overturned, it shows the governments attempt to significantly reduce child labor. -
Getting to Success!!
By 1920, the number of child laborers was cut to nearly half of what it had been in 1910 ( CL5). This shows the progress America has made as a nation to reduce child labor, and how it's efforts worked.
