Today in Labor History May 23, 1903: Thousands of children went on strike in the textile mills of Philadelphia. On July 7, Mother Jones began the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the deplorable conditions for child laborers. He refused to see them.
During this march, she delivered the “The Wail of the Children” speech in which she said: “In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills, they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?” It was also during that speech when she said, “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to get there. He had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him that if he had stolen a railroad he could be a United States Senator. One hour of justice is worth an age of praying.”
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