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A moment’s glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Faces of Lost Youth: Furman Owens, 12-years-old. Can’t read. Doesn’t know his A,B,C’s. Said, “Yes I want to learn but can’t when I work all the time.” Been in the mills 4 years, 3 years in the Olympia Mill. Columbia, South Carolina.

Can’t wait until Monday Morning when us Soviet Canuckistanians can see Part Two

I realized that most of the workers thought of unions as their enemies; gangsters out to extort money from them, and making their lovely capitalist bosses feel bad about oppressing them. When I quit, I pretty much said fuck you to the Glenn Beck-loving welders I was trying to organize. I’ll never waste my time beating my head against that wall again. Some people just deserve poverty and oppression.

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