Would you be able to get up early in the morning to go to work to 60 hours a week every day for a low wage? Well children between the ages of 7 and 13 faced this crisis every morning. Child labor continued on throughout the 1870s Until 1938. I believe that children were forced To do hard core dangerous manufacturing work such as working the in the coalmines.
There were also many other children who had to face risky and life taking jobs, for EX: Camellia Teoli who had got her hair stuck in a moving machine, which pulled her hair and scalp. When this incident occurred about 23,000 kids striked and protested until they reached their goals, which were to work less hours. This strike only made factories owner’s speed up the machines and lower the pay.
There were many important injustices movements as well. One was the Mother Jones crusade where she announces to many children that they should march and protest to New York from Philadelphia to tell President Theodore Roosevelt about their harsh safety conditions. It was not only 10 or 15 kids it was about 23,000 kids who marched for 22 days with out eating or sleeping. This adventure did not go as they plan. President Roosevelt sent them back to Philadelphia to face their UN safe conditions.
I believe that one reason of method of resistance was the strike of the newsies. The newsies were children who sold about 100 newspapers a day for 50 cents each until their company raised the prices to 60 cents each a paper. It made it harder for the newsies to sell the paper at that price. The newsies began to strike and riot the newspaper company. Kid blink told kids that they could achieve their goals if they stood together. The company decided to hire more newsiest, which made the other newsiest furious. The newsies destroyed the other newspapers by burning and ripping them into pieces, but this was a great achievement for the old newsies because they achieved their goals by sticking together. They believed that they had power in numbers.
In conclusion, this movement was important to me because this event in history was and event, which changed the economy for a long period of time, and forever changed they way we treat and look at children.